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[Colin Gilchrist]

Sure thing Rick, glad to help!

 

-Colin

[Jack Neelands™]

soam biatch....weall i'll be hogtied and hornswiggled...another way to skin a coon ...this time with scalpel way to go Colin

[88Matt]

Excellent idea!

 

I've been lookin for an excuse to use the "save toolpath geo", now I've got it.

 

Thanks,

 

Matt

[Jack Neelands™]

makes my little hick attemps look like trying to skin a coon with buckshot from 15 yrds...may not kill it... but sure's hell make it squeal loud enough that you'ed think its being skinned...

 

 

can i grovel now?

 

lol

[Colin Gilchrist]

Thanks Guys,

 

Be sure and watch your cut tolerance when you create the initial Surface Finish Contour operation. This will determine how accurately Mastercam follows the shape of your Solid (Surface Model). On the Finish Contour Parameters page click on the "Total Tolerance" button. This option is used to enable the toolpath filter. I have found that these options are kind of confusing if you don't know how CNC Software set this up. There is actually a really nice description in the help file with some illistrations to help you figure out what is going on. Because it took me a while to figure out what is going on I'm going to share my insights (Bare with me ).

 

In the "Total Tolerance" dialog box there are two different filters tha run on the toolpath. There is a "Filter tolerance" and a "Cut tolerance". Both of these tolerance values combine to define the "Total tolerance" of the two filters. The most important filter is the CUT tolerance. The Cut tolerance determines how closely the toolpath must follow the surface (or solid). This is the setting that can make your toolpath appear to "Facet" a surface you are trying to cut. The "Filter tolerance" setting is used to remove tool positions in the toolpath itself. This is the setting that attempts to reduce the amount of G code you are creating. I highly recommend that you use a Filter Ratio of 1 : 1 and set your Cut tolerance to .0005 and your Filter tolerance to .0005 as well. This will make the backplotted toolpath as accurate as possible. You should also enable the "create arcs in the X,Y plane" as well. These settings have given us the best results so far.

 

Thanks Guys,

 

Colin

[Jack Neelands™]

I did that thanks Colin and it came out beatiful

[P_Scott]

Colin,

 

Ingenious! Or as those dudes from the Guiness commercials say "Brilliant!" That's another great way to "skin a coon". Gonna use that one in class jack n.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Hey Peter, Good call on the Guiness dudes, I love those commercials....

 

"Brilliant"

 

-Colin

[Rick Henrickson 65]

just wanted to bring this back up check new thread

you can create curve slice but you need to have a cplane at the z depth you want to cut works great

[Colin Gilchrist]

Hi Rick,

 

If you use my workaround you can eliminate the need to make multiple slices, project the slices onto a plane, and trimming the slices together.

 

-Colin

[Rick Henrickson 65]

Colin that is how Im doing it now, just added it to this thread for another Idea

and thanks for your help!