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A couple of months ago I had some issues with the spindle on my PCNC1100 running erratically. After leaving the machine on, and warming the electrical cabinet the spindle ran fine for many hours. So I...

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New Machine Build DPRNT

April 5, 2013, 4:32 am

hi, I'm building a machine and I need get some information of PLCs codes and i saw in a post here, the DPRNT funtion. In some new machines, i have ethernet, how i use this funcion "macro" to write to a...

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Need Help! Forcing rapid height on a hybrid toolpath?

April 5, 2013, 4:34 am

Am trying something a bit unusual - might be attacking this the wrong way, but it's almost working... Am trying to persuade mastercam to post a series of sliced toolpaths - I'm trying to slice up the...

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AI Tool Monitor

April 5, 2013, 5:20 am

I can't get this to work on a Robodrill w/ 31i control. If I set it to "Machine Stop" it works fine, but when set to "Feed Down + Tool change", it does nothing. Just keeps drilling and going on like...

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Draft Sight Activation

April 5, 2013, 5:28 am

I have not received the email activation from 3ds and am running out of days. Any help will be appreciated. Thank You Jay

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mitsubishi meldas 320 traub machine,

April 5, 2013, 7:03 am

whenever i start machine immideatly i am getting bus error alarm on top of screen and some other alarms also coming what will be the problem

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mitsubishi meldas 320 traub machine,

April 5, 2013, 7:06 am

machine screen not getting on 200vac supply coming to screen and some red led indications in control card and in yaskawa drive EA message coming

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1250 failure.

April 5, 2013, 7:56 am

We have been running a 1250 for the last several years on our Practical CNC machine(no problems with practical!) and the unit started arcing internally. The repair shop has given us a price on a t85...

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Newbie Setting up new MicroLux 7x16 Lathe

April 5, 2013, 8:47 am

I'm more or less new to machining and have used a friends floor size lathe and Bridgeport CNC in the past. Just bought myself the 7x16 lathe from Micro-Mark and thought I would get better answers to...

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Siemens 810d (shopturn) problem with bar loading technology!!! Help please

April 5, 2013, 9:14 am

Any ideas?? When I'm trying to use the bar load page on shopturn I'm getting a error telling me " ZD not recognised or option does not exist ???

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