April 2022 - Woody's Workshop

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

Tormach PCNC440 blood donning solved

Hands up all those owners of a Tormach PCNC440 who regularly skin their hands, mostly their thumb knuckle, on the corners of the X axis stainless front skirt ?

I have tried to de-burr both corners but to no avail. It is just lethal to get anywhere near them when rummaging for a dropped part in the swarf (chips) or cleaning out the pan (do people do that or is it just me ?).

After a recent blood letting I decided enough was enough and fitted some electrical endless grommet around both corners. You have to nick out a 90 notch to allow the grommet to follow the curve but that aside job done. Hopefully less expletives in the workshop from now on but there again there will always be broken tools and Haimer tips to contend with.

electrical grommet protecting the skirt sharp corner — Electrical grommet protecting the X axis skirt sharp corners

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April 20, 2022

Try again after update completes Fusion 360 Error Message

I have had issues when opening Fusion 360 files downloaded from third party fellow users. I never really got to the bottom of this. Sometimes they would send me an assembly file and I could open the separate items in the structure but not the overall structure itself.

Things then got worse after a visit to France when I created some straight single item models on the machine out there. On return to the UK I could not open these files getting a message “Try again when update completes”. What updates ?? Both the Fusion install in UK and France were running the same version of Fusion so what was the problem ?

I happened upon a thread in the Fusion forum that suggested uninstalling Fusion and re-loading from scratch. This solved the problem. The files all now open on all machines.

Be warned – trying to find a simple click to download button on the Fusion site without going through lots of marketing click boxes is not simple. I was expecting to just log into the Fusion site with my account details and find a hassle free download. It doesn’t seem that simple. I got there in the end though and all is running well.

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April 4, 2022April 4, 2022

Windows 10 upgrade surprise

The desktop computer in France was running on Win7 and Fusion 360 needs Win10 or above. I brought the machine back with us to the UK and decided to upgrade it to Win10. I’m not yet prepared to step up to Win11.

As part of the upgrade I took out all the existing drives and fitted a 500GB SSD. I loaded Win10 which went to plan and used the same email address and PIN entries for the user ID as I use on my UK machines.

Win10 came up with the usual generic blue opening screen and I then sat and began to plan what programs I needed to load for use in France. After about 15 minutes the blue Microsoft desktop screen disappeared and was replaced with the same desktop image that I use on my UK screens.

So tell me how does the new SSD and Microsoft know that this is my go to image for a desktop ? It can only be registered in the Microsoft cloud storage against my account details. Which is slightly worrying.

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