madcam updates

[dgoddard]

4x80/.5=640rpm
640x4x.0015=3.84ipm
22% diff when trun'd to 3ipm
I'll just continue to edit code. Pain in the rear, but workable.

[JOM]

Hello dgoddard,

I will make sure that it will be possible to use x.x feed in next service release of madCAM 4.2

Joakim

[dgoddard]

Originally Posted by JOM Hello dgoddard, I will make sure that it will be possible to use x.x feed in next service release of madCAM 4.2 Joakim

Thank you. It is much appreciated by me and I'm sure, other imperial users.

[Dan B]

Hi Mike,

When I was young (high school age) Canada converted to the metric system. Some things were easy to adapt (driving in km/h instead of mph for example) and some other things not so easy. Living across the river from Detroit doesn't help because the news is always reporting temperatures in °F not °C so that one was a little slower to change. Linear distance is way easier in metric. When I do work around the house it's way easier to measure in metric. For example 500mm is easy to work with, 19 11/16 not so much.

My wife who was much younger when we converted struggles with inches and feet. When she went to university for her chemistry degrees everything was metric so she is metric through and through.

It is possible to work in the other system, but I agree it takes some effort at first.

Dan

[turmite]

Originally Posted by Dan B Hi Mike, For example 500mm is easy to work with, 19 11/16 not so much. Dan

Dan, 19 11/16 is real easy. Just look on the tape for 19 then count 11 of those little marks!!!!

How is the new release working for you?

Mike

[Dan B]

Hi Mike,

Not bad. I submitted my huge list to Joakim for the next service release. He's going to chip away at it item by item. The first thing is drilling, so hopefully we'll be able to use drill cycles soon, which means hole tapping.

If he is able to accomplish all the things we discussed (and I have no reason to think he can't) there is some great stuff coming. I'm pretty excited to get these things done so we can start talking about the simultaneous 5-axis. My head is bursting with ideas!!

Dan