Mutiaxis Tilt (Advanced options)

[Sam1]

Hello all

I am just wondering if someone knows how to use Advanced options in Multiaxis tilt (as shown in picture), or any tutorials please.

Thank you

 

[crazy^millman]

It is pretty self explanatory. Click each drop down and you have the different options for both or single axis of rotation when applying them to the multiaxis toolpath. This is where the programmer needs to be kinematically aware of their machine. The programmer when applying this should have issues or looking for solutions to problems they are having during either the programming or running of the operation. If they want to limit main tilting axis on a Trunnion type machine then that is one thing, but if it is a head-head machine that same thing could create issues. I have been around Multiaxis machining almost 30 years and I have used this maybe 20 times on 100's of parts and thousands of operations since the X5 days when Moduleworks became part of the Mastercam core product. Each time I was solving a certain problem that part on that machine needed with a certain tool in that specific holder. The endless combination of parts, tools, holders, machines and etc...... present that x 100 possibilities of ways to use this function means experiment and see which of them may or may not be the solution your looking for.

Steps to determine when to use.

#1 What is the Kinematic layout of the machining center the part is being programmer for?

#2 What are the features being machine and how do they align themselves to those axis or rotation? Are they more to the primary rotation axis(Tilt Angle) or the secondary axis(Rotary angle about the Primary)? From there determine which one needs restriction and which one does or doesn't.

#3 Try large numbers to see what effect each one has and do one thing at a time to see what each one is doing to learn how to apply them to the specific part being programmed. Once you do enough of a certain machine's kinematics you will becomes familiar with how it helps or hurts. Experiment and fail and learn what are the not to dos to understand what are the to dos. Then as you change to different machines with different kinematics then you will start to understand when this tool is needed and when other method are more suited to limit the toolpath motion.