trouble in the shop!

[Kannon]

Hello All!

I cant say I am new to this forum, cause I have been absorbing all of your knowledge for the past year! You all are great!

My question is: Our company globally is switching to Pro E, and in our edm area we use Mastercam. We have Mits wires, sinkers and 2 vf2 haas mills. In the very near future the drafting department wants to send us the pro e files. I have the converter to import pro E files for mastercam. Problem is I cant save them as Pro E when Im finished fine tuning the program. Mastercam is what we use to create the nc posts for our machines. Is there an easy fix to this? Right now I am recieving the programs via e-mail, then converting to mastercam and killing the 3d for the wires(ours work on only 2d work). Now how do I send the program back to the drafting department in a format pro e can read and analyze arcs, radius, etc.

 

Thanks,

Brian

[DavidB]

If its 2d iges should work.Or design department also use Pro-e .I get .x_t modals from them for toolpathing.

[The Iron Chef]

Hello Kannon123,

Welcome to the Forum

 

Send a .dxf for 2d and an iges for 3d. or do they want to look at the posted code? (yeah, right). you could post a file then reverse post it. save it down in a graphic format (dxf, iges...) and then send them that file plus all the tool offsets! Mwhahahahahahahhaha!

 

where the heck in the world is DECORAH?

Im pretty good at geography but i never heard of DECORAH

 

 

-Keith, from home

[Greg Williams]

Brian,

 

If they design in Wildfire, Get X_T parasolid files (or get them to create sections curves for you), Create your 2D curves for wirecutting then send them back the curves as IGuess, Sorry IGES

[deeherk]

hey keith,

i can answer the where the hell is decorah question..it's a town way up in the northeast corner of iowa..about 20 miles north is minnesota and 30 miles east is wisconsin...i'm about 13

miles south of decorah...

hi brian...wish i could help on your question but i'm more of a wire man and only know enough about milling to be dangerous..sounds like the people you work for are asking alot out of you...

dan

[Kannon]

Id like to thank all of you for your replys, its nice to get the help you need and have a place to go when I am in a bind!

 

I think I am gonna live here!

Thanks and someday I HOPE I can help someone with their problem!

 

Brian

[Keith Graydon]

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it's a town way up in the northeast corner of iowa.

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Ahh. Thanks. Sounds nice. I like the country

 

 

-Keith, from work