Mastercam X8 Mill level 3 tutorial 1 help.

[weiss]

I am teaching myself mill level 3 and i'm stuck on the first tutorial. I have followed the instructions on the included dvd and followed from the book. When i go to generate the first tool path, Surface rough>pocket, I input all the correct parameters, as instructed by both book and dvd, but when i finalize everything and click ok the message "Unable to determine a valid machining zone - no toolpath created" appears. Any suggestions as to what i am doing wrong or how to fix this?

[Thad]

It's been so long since I've used surface rough pocket that I've forgot the terminology, but it's either cut depths or depth cuts where you define what Z level to start and finish cutting at. If you have those values set wrong, you'll get that error.

 

Say you want to cut a pocket from the top (Z0) to 1 inch deep (Z-1.0), and you had your depth cuts/cut depths set to Z1.0 to Z0, then MC would be "Unable to determine a valid machining zone - no toolpath created."

 

Make sense?

[weiss]

yes that makes perfect sense. I'll try and readjust my settings. Thank You!