Re: Speaking of tangents, etc....

Dave & others,

I don't know all the details of this situation, but I have to assume
it's far more complicated than could be done in 4 hours. They do
have a full time computer guy on staff and the fact that Mastercam
could not supply a post to do the job should tell you something.

The machine is a couple of years old with a state-of-the-art Fanuc
control.

I suspect their problem has to do with wanting to contour at very
high feedrates, maybe in the 500 to 1000 ipm range. Even with a
15,000rpm spindle, at those kind of feedrates the cutter orientation
has to be optimal to get good surface finish.

Doug

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "follicely_challenged"
<dave_pearson@b...> wrote:

> I've just finished writing a post processor for a 5 axis machine

for

> the Dolphin Partmaster system. The customer isn't doing five axis
> surface machining, just doing 2/2.5D machining on five different
> faces of a cube fixture.
> It took me about four hours, let me see........that works out at
> about $3750.00 per hour (I wish).
>
> Dave Pearson
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "art" <fenerty@h...> wrote:
> > to handle
> > > the head movement. The cost of the post was estimated to be
> > > $15K!!!! Fairly complicated stuff.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Wow...I'm in the wrong end of the software business...
> >
> > Art
> > Master5 Software
> > http://users.andara.com/~fenerty/master.htm