CMM PROGRAMMING IN MASTERCAM

[BILLJAP]

HAS ANYONE SEEN A POST PROCESSOR TO OUTPUT CODE FOR A CMM?

[Guest]

I have not.

 

Are you asking for a post processor?

 

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Yes. I believe Verisuf has them.

 

You may want to remove the caps lock as IT'S CONSIDERED YELLING on the internet.

 

Welcome to the forum.

[BILLJAP]

sorry bout the caps. I seen the verisurf stuff but there has to be a way that i can just a post processor to output what i need to generate a cmm program

[Rick Henrickson 65]

I beleive they run on a diffrent language but I have seen people post for them might want to check with steve kidd at www.multiaxis.com

[BILLJAP]

thanks for the welcome and thanks for help. are there any cmm programmers that use mastercam?

[Glenn Stephens. from CCCS]

It pretty difficult to program a CMM directly from Mastercam without an additional third party product (Verisurf, Metrolosys). You'd have to either edit the toolpath with canned text or something to tell the post when your are looking for a "hit" or when you're just moving from one position to the next or you have to do ALL of the actual hit commands inside the post and use drill routines with a bunch of parameters to describe a start position vs all of the hits (say a 5-point hole where the toolpath goes to the center at a certain depth and the post builds in all of the other motion - or calls a macro to do such).

[kinglouie V]

still using calypso on Zeiss CMM on my new job. It's hard for me to imagine MC controling that thing,.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I'm with Glenn. MC By itself would be pretty difficult at best. That would be some serious post work in my guestimation.

[BILLJAP]

we have a shefield endevor and the software sucks. i think i can figure out the post editor enough i know tha's it's definalty possible to create a post that would do what i want it to.

and thank you all you guys again

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Basically you would have to use drill type cycles to do all the form and feature meaurements.

 

I'f added part probing to posts before and it takes a little doing but it's in the realm of possiblity without a dout.

[BILLJAP]

thanks for all the advice people. i think i have enough info to do what i have to do.

[Centroid CNC]

Here at Centroid we have Mastercam generating 5-Axis digitizing toolpaths that directly run our touch probe to digitize Cylinder Heads in 5-Axis... pretty neat stuff.

 

No third party software needed, it's all Mastercam and Centroid.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

How much is you're time worth and how much time do you have to play and test? Verisurf has something ready to go right out of the box. JM2C

[Centroid CNC]

What exactly did you have in mind? And what are you looking to use it with?

 

The digitizing is really part of our 5-Axis package... but that's not to say that it couldn't be usefull to others...

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Todd

Not exactly outta the box and ready to go

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Even if you get a post set up that will move the probe and get your touches, there are things that your CMM software should be doing that you will not be able to (reasonably) do with your post, like rotating your coordinate system to accurately align with the part, setting new coordinate systems based on part features, and virtual or construction features like intersections, virtual cylinders etc. If your parts are dimensioned simply then it might work, but if there's complicated GD&T forget it. IMHO.

[Guest]

After speaking with the creator of Metrolosys he says that it can be set up to program CMM's.

 

All your GD&T functionality should then be available I think.

 

BTW, Metrolosys does run in MCAM.

 

Still V9 though at this point.

[Hardmill]

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After speaking with the creator of Metrolosys he says that it can be set up to program CMM's.

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Who was it you spoke to John ??

 

 

PEACE

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

If I had to venture to guess, I'd probably say Dave. He's the coder behind the software, would that count as creator???

[Guest]

Yes, it was Dave I was speaking to.

[cadcam]

I was going to say Dave here to.

Who is John, I would say the other would be Tom.