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Adding a vice


sendithard
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I am refreshing my Fusion CAM learning in order to learn Mastercam. My goal here is to do some tutorials on Fusion then immediately replicate them on MC. I pulled up the below vice I imported into Fusion and made the jaw, parallels, and stock all parametric.  First, I don't know if this is overkill and if an experienced CAM programmer would laugh at this. Regardless, is this something anyone does in MC?  For instance in fusion I was able to select the vice parts for collision issues.  Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

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10 hours ago, sendithard said:

Thanks for the reply. just out of curiousity, are there experienced programmers out there that always input the vice or other items that are holding the stock. Or is that a rookie thing?

If I was sub-contract programing I would always have it in my file as I don't want the operator or the company to assume anything.

It is a good practice to have as much information as reasonably required in your file, someone else may open your file....your file should be self explanatory. All levels should be clearly named, all groups and operations named and all solids named. All tool holders should be properly defined within the file. Using ViewSheets is also a game changer of organization IMHO.

Now if you employer comes in and says get this job programmed and to the machine in 30 minutes you may need to cut corners.

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15 hours ago, sendithard said:

Thanks for the reply. just out of curiousity, are there experienced programmers out there that always input the vice or other items that are holding the stock. Or is that a rookie thing?

I program remotely 100% and I 99% put fixtures, vises, screws, dowel pins, etc in my files.  If you leave it to the setup guys they will make you look bad.  Every now and again i am tempted to leave that step out and sometimes i do.  But, only if its real straight forward.  I use a script that automatically merges in what i need for any specific job and that makes it much faster.  Plus i have my setup sheets pretty dialed in.  If i was setting up my own program i would not do all those steps though.

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Thanks for the replies. I have parametric vise setups and some miteebite parametric setups build out nicely in fusion.  Is the best workflow to bring in the vise setup with the stock resting tightly inside the jaws as one step file?  I feel my workflow would be quite faster to keep these parametric setups in a CAD program I know well. For instance I could quickly enter in a smaller height parallel and longer stock and quickly import that into MC all aligned already, vs moving and placing parallels or stock locations inside MC.  Thanks.

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On 2/28/2021 at 9:20 PM, sendithard said:

Thanks for the reply. just out of curiousity, are there experienced programmers out there that always input the vice or other items that are holding the stock. Or is that a rookie thing?

Always. Not only fixtures but tool holders as well. If you're using an ER32 collet chuck and only have room for an ER16 it's good to catch it before the job hits the floor.

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