TOOL CRASH WARNING

[Droogie]

WHEN THE BORING BAR EXITS AFTER FINISH PASS, WE WILL GET A TOOL COLLISION WARNING AND MASTERCAM ASKS FOR A NEW EXIT POINT. IT'S LIKE THE BAR WANTS TO GO STRAIGHT HOME WITHOUT FIRST MAKING THE RAPID MOVE OUT OF THE PART. IT WILL SOMETIMES DO THIS AFTER THE ROUGH BORE, AND WE HAVE CHANGED THE ENTRY DIRECTION OF THE FINISH PASS AND IT HAS SOLVED THE PROBLEM. WE CAN FIX IT EACH TIME BY PICKING A POINT THAT WILL GET THE BAR OUT OF THE PART WITHOUT CRASHING BUT THE TROUBLING THING IS THAT AS SOPHISTICATED AS THE SOFTWARE IS, YOU WOULD THINK WE MUST BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG TO KEEP GETTING THIS WARNING/PROBLEM!

 

DROOGIE

 

STILL RUNNING V9

[Guest]

Make sure you are using stock recognition.

[Glenn Bouman]

Hard to tell without looking at your part. You could also use the Ref Point option to specify the retract point.

[Gary]

Yes stock recognition needs to be set up in order for it to know where the part is. It's got me before when in a hurry.

[Brandon Walker]

yeah thats definetly the problem, because i used to get that warning a lot when i was first starting out, another one that came up was "rapid move violates tool clearance" or something like that.

 

it was just one of those things that haunted me for the first little bit haha

[Guest]

4X4mazda,

 

Not for nothing and I could be way off base, which if I am I'm sure someone will point it out to me.

 

In another thread you stated you work for a reseller.

 

Aren't resellers supposed to somehow identify themselves?

 

I could be wrong.

[brilu397]

slight hi-jack/

Since setting a ref. point seems to be the easiest fix, it would be nice to be able to set my operation defaults with a ref. pnt retract of Z5.0mm (abs). However, the ref. pnt box is grayed out in the defaults.

Just my 2 cents

[Brandon Walker]

look at my profile.

here ill add it to my signature thing then.

 

sorry, only really just started posting here fairly recently

[Brandon Walker]

there she be

[Thad]

John,

 

I thought beta testers were required to use their name (and company name?) and resellers were the only ones eligible for a company logo under their name; before 200 posts. Kinda like having an avatar with your first post. That was my take on it. I think it is a good idea to identify yourself if your a reseller.

 

Thad

[Brandon Walker]

ok i got the company name and stuff in, im tryin to figure out the company logo thing, i posted the company logo on the ftp so i could get it in there, but i dont know how to get it in there

[mike_f]

droogie, I've had collision problems like that with boring tools which turned out to be caused by the clearance or home position values on the FOLLOWING tool. took me a while to figure out, but I'm slow like that. mike