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Does anyone know where I can get post for Amada, Coma-Vela-Pega-Vipros Punch machinesThese are common machine nothing specialThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Does any know where to the accurate model of Haas VF6 trunion to simulate manufacturing? This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

I often have to apply pressure loads to fairly complicated internalpassages where it is relatively easy to "miss" some of the surfaces.Typically, I will turn off the simulation display and go into wireframeto try and confirm that I haven't missed any surfaces, BUT this doesn'talways provide an absolute assurance. So, I am wondering what othersdo? IS there a way to control the color of "selected" surfaces whenapplying the pressure load? The default is a "pale red/pink" thatdoesn't always show up so clearly, especially when your part is complexenough that you cannot isolate the surfaces (by that I mean, that thereare some surfaces that no matter what orientation you look at them from,there is another surface with pressure behind it). Seems like if thiswas a darker color it would be easier to spot missed surfaces. I remember there was a way to toggle a group of selected surfaces to awire mesh display during the selection process but I think that was onlyin modeling mode. Or was it? Oh,

Hi folks.Is anybody programming Integrex IV with pro / nc?Are you able to program all options with pro nc?I know a lot of the capability is going to come from the post, but what arethe pros and cons of programming a machine like this with pro nc andutilizing the options of the machine?Is there any documentation on programming in this type of environment?Any recommendations on getting a post processor or having one built?Thanks for any input.Enjoy your day! Dale This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Good afternoon, We just recently switched to Creo from WF4.0 and I amrunning into issues with Turning programs. In WF4.0 my tool database woulddrive the parameter for each turning sequence like in my mill sequence. Buttoday using the Turning for the first time since the change to Creo and noneof my tool data will transfer to the parameter table. Have they changed thenames from "=TOOL_ROUGH_FEED_RATE" and other stuff like that in the turningside? Does anybody know what the new relation names are? This is starting tobe more pain than it is worth to move to new builds every time if they keepon changing stuff like this. Thanks. Son NguyenGreat Plains Mfg.108 W. 2nd StreetAssaria, KS. 67416785-667-7763 ext. 3477 This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what

Would anyone know if there a excel sheet or math calculator to input multiaxis cl data goto moves to help verify the post is modified correctly and to make sure the toolpath is process correct.Ex. GOTO / 2.14373, 0.51450, 1.50000, $ 0.37144886, 0.65651571, 0.65651571 Calculate to something like following and compare results for the machine G code. G0 X-0.1444 Y-1.6124 B48.965 C60.499This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Dear users of Pro Manufacturing,Has someone developed a post processor for a 5-axis milling machine DMG type DMU50 with Siemens 840D sl control?We have G-post licensed within our ProE but it is to difficult for us to find out the configuration of a post processor.Can you help us ?Thank youThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hi, everyone!I’m looking forward to Planet PTC Live! 2011 in a few weeks, and I hope you are, too. We’ll have lots to talk about, share, and showcase. I hope you’re attending, and if so, I’d love it if you could come up and say “hi!” to me while I’m there.I’m also writing to see if not only are you attending, but if you are attending – are you interested in blogging while at the event? We had a handful of customer bloggers last year (see that, and more, here:http://www.ptc.com/events/ptcuser10/ ), in addition to some industry analysts and PTC folks. My favorite posts, though, were from customers sharing your real reactions and perspectives on the event!I’m making that same request again this year. We’d like [...] (read the rest of this entry here)This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new q

Hello all,We have the practice of using casting model for maching model through inheritance option.Is it possible to do merge/ inheritance of a part which has geom check? Or what kind of geom check will not allow us to do merge/inheritance?Karthik SThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Does anyone have a post processor for a Haas VF1, I would like for it to have tool description added aat the beginning. All that I have seen do not have this. I am running WF4(901) 210-6653 SteveThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Cool machineThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Good morning guys, I ran into this problem last month and finally narrowed itdown to the culprit. I was programming a huge compression mold and used amill volume sequence with a mill window. Usually when I am machining apocket I would just use scan_type=type_spiral and the program would be fine.This time I had a big 2" inserted cutter and on a previous job I wasplugging the middle of the tool when the toolpath would start with a smallcircle in the middle of the mill window. So I started to play around withthe scan type to help with the plugging issue. I found thespiral_maintain_cut_direction to work much better on the play path and thruvericut. So I used it on the program and it was working fine on the machineuntil 1" into the part the CNC code programmed a large radius that violatedthe mill window and basically sent the tool 200" ipm into the material 1"deep. Also mowed off the boss feature inside the cavity the sight was notpretty. Blew up the spindle head. I thought it was a machine

Question:We are on WF5 (or should I be saying CreoPro, LOL) and we have one seat of SolidWorks 2007. I am trying to get WF5 to read a SW part file. I have the config pro "swdocmgr_license_key" with the alphanumeric code I got from the SW "help" -> "show license" -> about<tab>" -> "Computer ID" <number>.When I try to read a SW file Pro gives me the error "Bad license key has been used". Does WF5 require a newer version of SW than 2007? Has anyone set this up?TIA.Manufacturing Engineerhttp://www.productssupport.com/This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

I am running into an issue with this one program that when I post it outusing Gpost, on the screen that tells me if the post is complete it tells me1 warning but no info on what the warning is. Is there a way I can find outwhat the warning is so that I can fix the issue. Thanks. Son NguyenGreat Plains Mfg.108 W. 2nd StreetAssaria, KS. 67416785-667-7763 ext. 3477 This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Finishing undercut with a profile sequence (3/8 lollipop cutter)cutter plunges down the axis and then leads in and out of each slice.This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hi,I'm running WF2 build m050 with a Fanuc robodrill mill.I've had problems with the beginning of sequences.The tool shouldrapid to X0 , Y0 and Z(clearance height) and from there continue cutting but instead it's onlymoving toZ5(clearance). missing the X and Y and thereforepassingthrough the job on thefirst cut,G01 X0. Y0. Z-.2 F150.This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Does anyone have any experience running Flex Net on a virtual server2008 machine?Bradwf5This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

I have been using pro manufatruring for years. I don't do much pocket or surface milling and when I do I have usedtrajectory and built the cuts from scratch. I want to learn how to apply volume milling to various things. Does someone have a tutorial that explains how to build one and adjust the milling to build a good tool path? By default volume milling has way to many retracts and unnessary moves.This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

How do I update my g-post for WF4 Pro-man?Byron TaylorCoordinator/ProgrammerDanfoss Commercial CompressorsOne Scroll DriveArkadelphia, AR 71923E-mail: byron.taylor@scrolltech.comTel.:870-246-0750

We are having issues creating the following toolpaths with Pro/E. Please note that this is currently possible in MasterCAM. The goal is to rough the following mill surface with a ball nose end mill in a helical type of motion - keeping a constant helical depth change all the way down:Here is the mill surface: When using Cut Line machining with a helical motion the toolpath looks like this. As you can see the helical motion between the spherical and conical part of the mill surface is not a constant plunging depth. This type of tool motion would be fine for finishing the surfaces but we are helical cutting into solid material: I did create geometry that the tool follows to create the following sequence. This is possible but took a while to create a number of features to accomplish this: We would like to ask PTC to enhance the Cut Line Helical milling output to provide a constant helical plunging motion down the entire mill surface. Has anyone else made a request from PTC to change this?

Hey guys..I have a strange problem.Sometimes when creating a mill volume path , it can´t be mill because the mill volume suddently disappears.I´ve had this problem a couple of times , but not every time.I make the seq , choose the volume (which appears in solid) , and everything seems okay. But when i try to play the path , the volume is gone.You can still see it in the modeltree , but not select it on the model..In this case i´ve fix it with a mill vindow , but still real frustrated..Have anyone had similar problems ? This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Is there any European Mold Designers out there? We do a lot of work for German companies here in the United Sates and rumor has it that in European Mold designers supply their own computers and software. Is that right? Is it the same for CAM?This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Here we go again.I have finaly convinced the powers that be that my current laptop is severely hurting productivity. They have their checkbook in hand and are ready to get me what I want (need). The only restrictions I have (unless I have good justification) are that it be a Dell with largest possible screen running windows 7, 64 bit. I’ve seen this question answered in past posts, but I cannot seem to find them.I am running 1- Pro-E 2001 through Wildfire-4.2- Rhinoceros3- Magics Bijoux4- Solid-Scape Model-Works5- Snag-it6- Soon we will be adding a millSo if money is no object, what is the latest greatest Dell laptop configuration best for running pro?Thanks in advanceThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using

Hello Pro Users,I am looking for a font to use in Pro/E that is appropriate for simple milling into tooling such that it has a constant thinckness and rounded ends to each letter, number or symbol. Arial Rounded is the closest one I have found so far, but am looking for something much better. If available I would also like to have control over the character thickness too. If no such font is available what are any suggestions for creating something? I have never used Pro/Program, so don't know if that would accomodate creating a custom font for this?Mark A. PetersonSr Design EngineerIgloo Products Corp-This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be

Hello everybody, I need to stamp the current date on the drawings printed to the Océ Plotter TDS700.Pro/Engineer printing procedure is configured to generate a plt file and the to call LPR program to do the actual printing. The plotter manual suggest to the command STAMP as an option of the /Job Ticket/ sent to the plotter. But I cannot understand what they mean... The plt generated is an HPGL file with no mention of anything that can be considered a /Job Ticket./I tried to insert some command I read in the manual before the .plt file generated by Pro/ENGINEER, just as I did for driving the machine attached to the plotter that folds the sheets, but it doesn't work.Does anyone have some suggestion?I understand this could be quite OT, but I hope that some of you may help me anyway.Thanks a lot-- Stefano BerrettasdCAD.I.TECH - CAD Integration Technology s.r.lVia Montevideo 7, 16129 GenovaTel: 010 362 62 66 - Fax: 010 362 62 67 - SKYPE: stefano.berrettawww.caditech.it <">http://www.c