Creating Tool Plane

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

I need to create a tool plane to drill some holes for a horizontal machining opeation. The problem I am having is that the holes go through a round surface not a flat surface. When I select Toolplane/Entity/ and then select one of the holes I recieve the message....."Selected entity is not flat." How can I align my toolplane with the holes I need to drill. I can put the file on the FTP site if someone tells me how. Thanks.

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

I'm on my way to work. Where do I get the C-hook for V9.1. I'll Check back with you later.

[Guest]

If you have a solid model, you should be able to select the point at which it becomes a full diameter and create an entity that can then be used to create a tool plane.

 

The hole axis chook on the FTP might be usefuk as well.

[88Matt]

I just did one last week and used the circle at the bottom of the hole to create the plane.

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

Thanks Matt and everyone else, I'm working with a thru hole and it goes thru two diameters. I ran the hole axis C-hook, selected my cylinders and some dashed lines were created. I'm not sure how to use the dashed lines to create my tool plane.

[Allan]

Select the "normal" option and select the line (watch the Z direction).

 

HTH

 

Allan

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

Thanks everyone that does the trick

[WW_TIGERS]

All you need to do is goto surfaces, then goto untrim surface, click the hole surface, then goto curves and put curves on the ends. then draw a line between the two arc centers and use that line as your normal. hope this helps.

[Allan]

The hole axis c-hook eliminates the need for this step.

 

HTH

[Jim at Gentex]

cncjb2006,

 

Once your new tplane is created, make sure it is oriented correctly with respect to your WCS before you write toolpaths!

 

To do this, first ensure your axes indicators are visible by going to 'Settings'>'Configuration'>'Screen' and checking the 'Display viewport XYZ axes' and 'Display WCS axes' checkboxes if they aren't already checked. Then click on 'Planes'>'Rotate'. You should see a dialogue box where you can enter X,Y, and Z rotational values, and you should see both your WCS and Tplane indicators on the screen. Now, simply enter the rotational values necessary to make the tplane indicator oriented the same as the wcs indicator and there you have it! When prompted, enter the name of the new plane you created and the tplane and wcs will now be oriented correctly whenever you write toolpaths on that plane.

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

Thanks again everyone for all your help.

[DavidB]

I needed to do the excact same thing today.

I downloaded the Hole Axis c-hook from the FTP site put it into my McamXchooks folder.But when I try use it I get "OPen Error Unknown file type".

What am I doing wrong?

 

I noticed the date of the Axis hole chook is Oct 2003? I'm using X MR2?

[Steve Zirtzman]

DavidB,

Try putting the Hole Axis CHook on a toolbar and running it from there.

[Thad]

David,

 

It sounds like the chook is not for MR2 (or X?).

 

Thad

[DavidB]

Thad,

 

I wish people would catch onto your sticky rule