Advanced drill not working on lathe??!!

[amw]

Trying to program a lathe part here tonight and was looking forward to finally using the advanced drill cycle. But I dont see it in lathe? 

Whats going on here? Please dont tell me that this feature still hasnt been added to mastercam lathe. 

 

 

[Tinger]

I'm going to tell you that it has not been added to lathe

 

You're not the only one who wants it!

[amw]

I guess its official, no useful features at all have been added to mastercam lathe in over 10 years. Sad. 

Im sure my sales guy told me about this advanced drill being on lathe. I talked about how we had a job on the lathe a while ago where we could have used it. 

[GoetzInd]

10 years huh. Your optimistic. 

[Tinger]

I just bought mcam lathe earlier this year and it seems like it is 10-15 years behind the mill side of things. The tool library management sucks. (I could be doing it wrong)

[amw]

1 hour ago, Tinger said:

I just bought mcam lathe earlier this year and it seems like it is 10-15 years behind the mill side of things. The tool library management sucks. (I could be doing it wrong)

Yes it is. And lathes are so much simpler then mills? Doesnt make any sense. For a small amount of effort they could really improve a few things. 

The lathe tool library is a mess. Take some time and carefully setup your own library and it will work better. Im slowly getting mine setup

[crazy^millman]

19 minutes ago, amw said:

Yes it is. And lathes are so much simpler then mills? Doesnt make any sense. For a small amount of effort they could really improve a few things. 

The lathe tool library is a mess. Take some time and carefully setup your own library and it will work better. Im slowly getting mine setup

Do everything a 3D lathe tools. Remember drills are not supported yet and if you want to bore with them then have to either define the tool twice which you can do in standard lathe, but not in MT or bore using a point toolpath taking the difference from the center to the edge that will be boring.

[crazy^millman]

Here is one to play around with if you really want to explore what you can do with 3D tools.

C6-4-SL40 113 150-AX.zip