New HSM Toolpaths

[Müřlıń®]

I have been messing around with the new HSM toolpaths.

 

They look pretty cool.

 

Is there a detailed discription of what all the settings are for?

 

I went to Mastercam.com and only saw an overview.

A search didn't help much either....

 

Thanks....

 

Murlin teh rookie X user....

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Did you look at the vidieos?

[Müřlıń®]

Ahh thanks...did a search on videos and found the DOC download and the videos...

 

I missed that page Mastercam.com.

 

Got to press the next button to get there...

 

 

Doh!

 

 

Well after some research all I can say is

quote:

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mene, mene, tekel upharsin

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I shall comprise a list of questions...

 

[ 02-20-2006, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: Murlin ]

[Müřlıń®]

OK should have just asked the questions to begin with

 

What does min profile mean?

 

I am still getting 90 degree moves at the retract plane.. How do I arc in and out on every move like the video?

 

Has anyone else had any gouges occuring with core rough?

[Chris Rizzo]

imho, the video's don't really tell you how to do anything, just what you can do.

 

Are you talking about the retracts and "minimum verticle retract"?

 

I've had gouges also related to the retract plane, and part clearance. Make sure it's set high enough; it's easy to forget and leave it at default. Also set "part clearance" to a value greater that what your stock to leave is.

[Jody]

I thought the vidio's were good. I watched them 2 or 3 timesat home. then watched the feature that I was trying to program to understand what it meant and could do, and use the help file to understand more.

 

Jody

[Müřlıń®]

quote:

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Are you talking about the retracts and "minimum verticle retract"?

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From the paths that I have crunched, all moves at the highest planes are at 90 degrees.

 

On the video, the entry and exit moves appear to arc in and out at the highest z level. But I can't get it to do that.

 

Look at this:

 

I still get 90 degree moves with no arcin or out

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Murlin

Toolpaths, Linking parameters, Leads, vertical arcs

 

HTH

[Müřlıń®]

Vertical arcs are set at the default at .075

 

I'm recrunching with .25 arc and see if anything changes...

 

Noper... same, same...

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

What about your filter settings?

[Müřlıń®]

Tried all kinds of combos. filter off, 1:1, arcs x,y,z, 2:1....one way filtering....

 

.0001 tol, .001 tol, .002 tol no change

 

same same

[bellyup]

hey murlin,

 

howd you do that circle with an arrow thingy? you got some telestrater software?

[Müřlıń®]

I just used the paintbrush in Paint.

 

 

here is a picture of the video and it has arcs....

 

Man, what am I missing

 

 

[thoskins]

Did you look in the Documentation folder in your McamX directory. There are several documents in there. I believe one of them explains the new toolpaths. I'm not at my pc or I could give you a file name, but I think they're pretty self descriptive.

 

it is called c:mcamxdocumentationMcamXMR1.pdf

 

[ 02-20-2006, 04:23 PM: Message edited by: thoskins ]

[Roger Peterson]

linking parameters page. You only get the curl up and curl down when you use the minimum distance retract motion.

 

 

HTH

[Müřlıń®]

OMG!!!

 

Well Thank you sir!!

 

 

Someone just kick me in the head....

 

I know that is documentes somewhere, but it is buried so deep that it totally escaped me...

 

 

thanks dude

 

 

 

Well that little problem only took me 5 hours to solve... The perpetual aggravation with X continues....

 

Could we please have non working functions GREYED OUT!!!!!!!

[smokey_44]

"You only get the curl up and curl down when you use the minimum distance retract motion"

 

think your wrong cause I jusr did that and iot worked for me no problem with full retracts. I have tried this murlin and it seems to be workin here.

 

 

LEADS

 

linear exit entry .025

vertical arc entry .250

vericcal arc exit .250

 

 

seems to work even if i change the rad sizes up and down.

 

 

Just try to help

 

 

Dave

[Müřlıń®]

OK I will try that too Dave....

 

 

Because sometimes the min distance misses a whole lotta stock in some areas...

[beej]

I never use minimum retract and I always get vertical arcs. I'm using the same settings as dave ferraro.

 

Minimum retract crunched a cutter on me once. I stopped trusting it. (Plus I think our operators will have a longer life expectancy without it.)

[Müřlıń®]

argggg...resizing pics

 

 

 

Well rats!!!

[smokey_44]

"Plus I think our operators will have a longer life expectancy without it."

 

Lol i know what thats like

 

 

Dave