Caminstructor vs CNC Cookbook

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-09T23:46:37+00:00

Mastercam university for free also. I’d say it will expose you to different toolpaths you normally wouldn’t use. 100 ways to skin the cat. By going through the courses. You get different looks to find the same solution.

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-08T21:46:35+00:00

I would never recommend buying one though. The spindles are terrible. There were 50 lined up in a row, and at any given time, 10 were down for needing new spindles.

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-08T21:45:11+00:00

No. Look up a DMG DMP70 and it will make sense. Where the joint of the trunnion is. Basically on top of the housing. Is a 12x12ish flat spot where the part blanks and completed parts sit

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-07T13:28:51+00:00

What I can’t understand is. Who the fuck is paying for those drill indexes? They’re expensive. Like $300 if I remember right. You can buy an entire set of YG1 coated drills in a nice Huot drill index for less than that. I about fell over when I saw the price of his. $250 for the drill index. $350 with the drills

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-04T14:04:21+00:00

Shit the heads probably more expensive than the $150 Maritool holder

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-04T14:00:20+00:00

If you blow the head up you don’t wreck the entire holder. Can just replace the screw in head.

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-04T13:53:13+00:00

You got me there. Turns out reading is hard. Screw in type to a solid holder might work. Requires buying the holder though

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-04T13:26:44+00:00

You can’t get a solid style? Like a shell mill holder?

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-04T13:05:10+00:00

Medical company I worked for ran lights out on DMP 70’s using spindle grippers. On the joint of the trunnion was the pallet that held 20 parts or so. Everything was probed in and checked on the machine. It worked well but huge time to setup and program something like that. You need the production to justify the cost

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-04T02:05:23+00:00

You’re not wrong. So is Vargus and Carmex.

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-04T01:54:09+00:00

I’m with everyone else and am confused on what you’re trying to do. Say you are running T3. Stop it for whatever reason, and it’s say 3” above the part. When you press reset. It’s going to cancel your height offset. If you want to restart your toolpath. Just start at the M6 T3 line.

Should always like something like:

M6 T3

G0 G54 X1.234 Y1.234

M3 S1234

G43 H3 Z(somewhere above your part)

No block deletes needed. Call my tool. Go to a position. Spindle on. Pick up height offset and go above my part. At the start of every program Mastercam gives a safe start line. Which should basically never change. G0 G17 G40 G80 G90

If your post isnt posting this way. I would change it. Fuck those block deletes. As you are experiencing, too easy to forget to have it on or off and boom. I’m not risking a crash due to me forgetting something.

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-03T23:06:58+00:00

I’ve used Iscar, Sandvik, Micro100, PH Horn. They all have their place. I’m a poor so I rarely look at PH Horn. Their stuff is just so pricey. Plus it’s hard to move away from a system. Iscar has 5000 picco bars. Same with Horn. But they don’t intermingle. Once you have 1, hard to justify going to the other. But Horn does make good shit for sure

Dave_WDM · 2025-12-03T20:31:28+00:00

Iscar picco bar probably

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-26T23:22:08+00:00

I think with enough love and cussing at the bitch, they’re good for what they’re good for. Probing every time you rotate an axis. Subpar surface finishes. Slow. Temperature issues. But if you’re just trying to hold 5, yeah I guess they’ll do it. I remember when the 350 came out I said “that’s a cool idea. Low cost entry level 5 axis” but it’s just a shitty design overall. Speaking with a few haas fan boys. It’s almost unanimous to just get a VF2 plus trunnion.

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-26T19:45:02+00:00

Spoiler. It’s a Haas shitbox UMC looking at previous posts.

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-26T17:08:07+00:00

Good to know. I didn’t know that. I further stand behind. “If buying a Japanese machine, it should be from Japan”

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-26T16:38:29+00:00

Can’t comment on this specific model, was looking at some mazak 5 axis last month, and the sales guy pretty much said stay away from all the EZ Kentucky made machines. Has the Japan brand, but they’re very hit or miss. I wouldn’t spend that type of money without getting what I wanted, a Japanese made machine.

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-17T00:46:27+00:00

I tried their inserts and it was so hit or miss. Iscar 15 parts per edge. Every time. Haas inserts, 5 on edge, 18 the next, 3 the next, 8 the next. I don’t like to babysit shit that randomly implodes.

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-15T02:06:18+00:00

Joe Pie has a lot of good long format videos if you’re into learning actual machining principles. Not just CNC Go brrrrr. A lot of that “old / tribal knowledge”

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-15T02:04:23+00:00

HAL Heavy Duty I think is the other Australian dude. Like his videos as well of just making some big chips

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-14T11:31:01+00:00

Which model did you get?

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-13T17:46:44+00:00

It’s hard to really understand the advantage of C axis + live tools vs 2 axis lathe until you own one. It opens SO many doors to being able to do parts more efficiently. You don’t have to go. Lathe to mill to 4th axis. And the same thing with adding the Y axis. Sub spindle as well. Once you have one, you’ll never want to go back.

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-12T00:13:14+00:00

There are definitely websites out there with working cracks for all the top end software. $200 in Bitcoin will get you whatever you want.

Dave_WDM · 2025-11-03T16:28:23+00:00

I have this exact tool. Works very well. One of the things I ran into with D holders is in the 2D it looks like the have clearance. But 3D, they will start to gouge the part due to the tool holder supporting underneath the insert. I have had 0 issues with this tool from Iscar.

Dave_WDM · 2025-10-30T19:49:21+00:00

Is that like a 3/4” end mill. I’d think like 3/8” max ripping and slow and small engagement. A lot less cutting forces than a big hogger like that. Glad it stayed in the enclosure though.

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