MasterCam X and wire edm

[johnT]

I am changing from Version 9 to X on Wire EDM.

Anyone have comments or suggestions about X and Wire?

[Guest]

i changed to mcx wire about 4 mos. ago.the geometry creation is totally different,but the

wirepaths and parameter screen is the same except

where you put your program #.for each post you use

you have to have a machine definition.the backplot

screen and operation manager looks alot different.

as i've gotten use to it i like it better than

mc wire9.1. welcome to the forum

[Guest]

by the way john, it's good to see another wire guy.

[johnT]

del,

Would you have any information on a MasterCam Wire Tutorial for X. The only one I found so far is at Volumesdirect.com and it is in Canada. $35 and $20 shipping for ground .

Thanks for the help.

John

[Mike Gates from Barefoot CNC]

check the book section at the top of the page. the x wire tutorial from In-Hose Solutions is a good one to start with. your local reseller should be able to get it for you pretty quick.

[Guest]

john, you can also go to your mcamx documentation

where it has a pdf file for mcx wire getting started and macx wire.there is a lot of good info in there.go to all programs,mcam x,documention.

[Mau7x57]

I just use Mill for the wire. Tell it to use a .010 dia. endmill 7" long. Jimmy at Barefoot CNC came up with a super post for our old Sodick.

Good luck

Bill @ North Carolina Manufacturing

[mats_asson]

Mau, are you able to do any 4-axis cutting with mill?

 

Mats

[3rdstring]

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I just use Mill for the wire.

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But what about taper & 4 axis paths?

[HevyMetl]

SOund like a manual edit for taper and a 4 axis would be a no go. I know quite a lot of wire houses that never cut taper or 4 axis so that would probably be ok for them.

 

I really don't see a difference in wire for X. It works well and I haven't had any none user related problems.

[Don Trust]

We just use a mill post for wire here, also.

 

Taper is just added into the NC code after posting.

 

Only ever did one 4-axis job, years ago. Output 2 separate codes and I wrote a program to convert the XYIJ's and merge the programs together. It worked, but I wouldn't want to do it on a regular basis. If we ever get into that, I'll get MC wire.

 

Bottom line, if you never do 4-axis, MC wire is unnecessary.

[Mau7x57]

Our old Sodick will do taper with verry little manual edit(Thanks to the great Post). Forget about 4 axis on this machine.

mau757

[JBowman]

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Our old Sodick will do taper with verry little manual edit(Thanks to the great Post). Forget about 4 axis on this machine.

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4 axis on Sodick can be done with a mill post if you have a TX-21 or newer (not sure about earlier ones) Sodick can read a bottom and top path with a ":" between the 2 codes.

 

G141 H000

G00 X-.97916 Y.1 :G00 X-.7 Y.1

G00 X-1.02916 Y.1 :G00 X-.75 Y.1

G01 X-1.02916 Y-.83332 :G01 X-.75 Y-.5

G03 X-.77916 Y-1.08332 I.25 :G03 X-.5 Y-.75 I.25

G01 X.1 Y-1.08332 :G01 X.1 Y-.75

G140 G00 X.1 Y-1.03332 :G00 X.1 Y-.7

X4.321 Y.5635

 

It's a chore to insert the second line of code but it works great.