digitized program

[ytsudwas]

Is there a way to bring a digitized program from cimco edit into mastercam to generate geometry? I can run my digitizer around the profile and generate x,y coordinates into cimco and create toolpath but can I get mastercam to generate the geometry?

[Thad]

sawdust,

 

Can you create splines through the points?

 

Thad

[heeler]

Why not use the Digitize C-hook and put the points directly to mastercam? We have a digitizer that we use all the time. If you are using a mill machine, you could just reverse post it into Mcam.

 

HTH

Glenn

[ytsudwas]

Thad,

I tried to generate splines with no success

Heeler,

I am using a Miltronics mill with a Centurion 7 controller. I have sent the resulting points back to Cimco Editor. What steps do I take to get it into Mastercam? I don't consider myself much of an expert here.

Thanks

Ernie

[Todd Patterson]

File-Converters-Ascii. You will have the choice of creating points, lines, or splines. HTH

[ytsudwas]

Todd,

I tried that set and it choices and what comes out is not even close to right.

Ernie

[CAM-mando]

Sawdust,

 

It works for me, I often enter data in excel and save as a deliminated text file. Then read the text file in using converters > Asci.

 

The data looks like this ...

 

code:

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3.159	0

73.1421 -0.0002

3.1212 -0.0006

3.1004 -0.0012

3.0795 -0.0019

3.0587 -0.00027

3.0379 -0.0037

3.017 -0.0049

2.9962 -0.0063

2.9754 -0.0079

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sawdust

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Thad is so observant

[Todd Patterson]

Ernie,

 

Can you post some text from your Cimco file.

[Thad]

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I tried to generate splines with no success

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What was the problem?

 

 

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Thad is so observant

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Thad

[TomHemphill]

We use a Centroid digitizer to copy cylinder heads and if the splines are in slices of Z all is well but if we do a grid pattern in x or y it comes in all inside out

This is a sample of good code from the digitizer

-3.9552 -1.1106 3.7419

-3.9554 -1.0898 3.7419

-3.9561 -1.0691 3.7419

-3.9566 -1.0485 3.7419

-3.9570 -1.0281 3.7419

-3.9577 -1.0077 3.7419

-3.9587 -0.9874 3.7419

-3.9589 -0.9673 3.7419

-3.9594 -0.9472 3.7419

-3.9597 -0.9271 3.7419

-3.9596 -0.9071 3.7419

-3.9600 -0.8924 3.7419

 

-3.9783 -0.8924 3.6919

-3.9766 -0.8724 3.6919

-3.9769 -0.8524 3.6919

-3.9770 -0.8323 3.6919

-3.9770 -0.8122 3.6919

-3.9768 -0.7919 3.6919

-3.9773 -0.7717 3.6919

-3.9772 -0.7513 3.6919

-3.9775 -0.7309 3.6919

-3.9775 -0.7102 3.6919

-3.9777 -0.6894 3.6919

-3.9777 -0.6684 3.6919

-3.9776 -0.6472 3.6919

-3.9778 -0.6258 3.6919

I also have another cad program called Excalibur(yes there are others but not as good ) that has a feature to import digitized points and it asks what way the slices are if I run the grid pattern through it and import it as iges then it also comes in ok

 

Tom

[ytsudwas]

Cam

How do you get the data into Excel? Will it import directly in or do I need to save as some other type of file? When I bring the file into Cimco the suffix is (.dig).

Thad

Good Eyes! (sawdusty)

When I try to generate splines,lines or points it draws some erratic shapes that doesn't mean anything.

Todd

I'll bring some text home tomorrow and post what I get from the digitizer. No internet access at work.

TSTom

I'm trying to do just x and y before I go on to 3d. We are just trying to learn the digitizing software

[Thad]

If you have the 4 points that make up the outside of a square block, for example, then you would create lines from endpoint to endpoint. If you had a 2D contour, then you would create splines that went through those points. If you had points from 3D form, you would also create splines from those points. For 3D, your points would have to be taken in straight lines, or your splines would look unusable. You would then make a series of splines to follow those straight "scan lines," and make surfaces from those splines.

 

Thad

[Mark H]

Take a look at this topic regarding point cloud software...

 

http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...ic;f=1;t=014756

[ytsudwas]

Thanks everyone for your help. I got it to work today after I recovered from my brainf**t. My problem was because I sent the program from my controller into cimco edit then tried to open in Mastercam with G,Mcodes and block numbers still in the file. Once those were removed it worked great.

Thanks again for your help everyone,

Ernie