[step-manufacturing] Reminder conference call on Wednesday to discuss first test results

[Martin Hardwick]

All,

The conference call is this Wednesday at the regular times - 7AM 
Pacific, 10AM Eastern, 3PM UK and 4PM Europe. The contact details are 
repeated below for those of you who do not use an electronic calendar.

We will discuss the first machining results for the following test data. 
This data should be accessible to anyone with a browser or smart phone:

http://swim.steptools.com:8085/

Category 	Item 	Description 	Date
Setup 	Stock specifications 	Need stock dimensions and tolerances 
8/20/2016
Setup 	Workpiece location 	Need work offset location relative to stock 
features that we can measure 	8/20/2016
Cutting tools 	Missing cutters 	We don't have two of the cutters 	8/20/2016
Web interface 	Axis system display 	Helpful to have frame directions 
displayed on screen 	8/20/2016
Web interface 	Workpiece frame location 	Helpful to have workpiece frame 
system displayed on screen 	8/20/2016
Web interface 	Identify datum features 	Nice to be able to be able to 
visually identify datum features.Like in STEP-NC Explorer. 	8/20/2016
NC program 	No coolant commands 	Program does not turn coolant on/off 
8/20/2016
NC program 	Slow -Z feed during setup 1 	During facing, the down move 
after traverse across the part is very slow 	8/20/2016
Setup 	Interefence on Setup 2 	The support parallel on the bottom of the 
part in interfering with the un-cut surface of the part 	8/20/2016
NC program 	Notes for operator 	Add notes in the program to let the 
operator know what is going on 	8/20/2016
NC program 	Conventional milling 	Is there a reason program does not use 
climb cutting? 	8/20/2016
Cutting tools 	Long 10mm tool 	Is long length required in later 
operations? 	8/20/2016
Cutting tools 	Short flute length 	Is there a reason a longer flute 
length was not used when cutting sides? 	8/20/2016
Video 	Camera position not optimal 	Camera needs to be higher to prevent 
coolant from blocking view 	8/20/2016
Setup 	Used Al 	Used aluminum 85x85x85mm block rather than Ti.We 
discovered Ti block dimensions were not very close to the 
specifications.Ti blocks were oversized by 2 to 3 mm. 	8/20/2016



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