Solid Drill, Planes and WCS - No Workie

[New Job]

X MR2

 

I am trying to define a WCS on a part that I donot want to relocate in my file. Then use solid drill for drilling and tapping. However, I cannot select the proper plane ( the planes button is greyed out ).

 

After the ops are generated from solid drill, I can then go and select the proper plane in each op, however, when I post, the planes are defaulted back to the original wcs, not the one I created.

 

Is there a work around for this?

 

edit:

 

Reseller tells me this is a known issue. May not even be fixed in X2. This time I can select my holes individually. Next time though?

 

How many use this feature this way?

[Colin Gilchrist]

We stepped up and bought ProDrill. It works much better than the Solid Drilling option in Mastercam.

[New Job]

I have never considered it. Will have to look into it.

[Kelly Burns]

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We stepped up and bought ProDrill.

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Prodrill is awesome if you do tons of holes. So far in my experience with it the setup sucks, but once you figure out how its thinking (as with all software)it seems to get a little less cumbersome and trustworthy.

 

I still cant figure out how to make the chamfers actually come out right, if you could help me with this Colin......It would be appreciated.

 

I have always just contoured the chamfer on, but it takes a little while to program each and every hole as you can imagine.

 

I believe that this is one of the most advanced feature recognition add-ons yet that I have used.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Hi Kelly,

 

We actually don't do any chamfering with our operations. We mostly just trim composite panels. We use ProDrill to generate circle mill operations for our drill routines. We actually don't do very much real drilling. Its mostly circle mill.

 

I'll give you any help I can. Are you trying to chamfer with the spot drill or a chamfer mill?