Cutter Comp Not Sucessful

[Jerosu]

I have a hole .066 diameter. Endmill is .060 diameter. I made a 2-d contour with the circle chained and lead in/out set to perpendicular .001 and 0 arc.

 

I get "cutter compensation not sucessful"

 

So I make a new file with nothing but a .066 circle and try it - same thing. Then I switch computers - it works fine. Come back to my 'puter thinking I must have screwed something up.... no dice.

 

Any ideas?

 

I even tried the generic machine/control defs that installed with Mastercam

 

X2 SP1/Mill Level 3/ solids

[Guest]

Try using circle mill instead

[#Rekd™]

Hi Jerosu,

 

+1 to circle mill, use a point instead of the geometry then you can type the size you want the hole to be. It will plunge in the center of the hole and then move outward.

 

John Ford

[Jerosu]

Circle mill works like a champ

 

Wonder what's up with the contour not working

[Storkman]

.001 is not enough room to turn on comp.With a perpendicular entry wouldn't you need more than half the cutter to turn on comp?

[Fig sign]

I have a hole .066 diameter. Endmill is .060 diameter. I made a 2-d contour with the circle chained and lead in/out set to perpendicular .001 and 0 arc

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That`s a mistake ,if your setting is control compensation

need to be 0.031

[Jerosu]

Setting was wear and .001 is a correct (viable) amount. My point being it works perfectly on another computer and is something I've done hundreds of times.

 

Just a curiosity question more than anything

[Storkman]

Actually you are right. My apologies. It should work.

[Jerosu]

I put a file on the ftp server

 

/MCX2_Files/jerosu_ccomperror.mcx

[Guest]

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My apologies.

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ah! thats o.k. storky. forget about it.

[?Mark]

In lead in/lead out change sweep to 0 instead of 90deg.

 

hth

[?Mark]

btw, it looks like a little bug.

90 deg should work also, since arc radius was set to 0.

 

edit:

simply opening lead in/out tab and clicking o'k (without changing anything) makes the op dirty.

After regenerating all works good, no errors.

 

edit 2:

simply selecting tis op and regenerating fixes it on my pc and backplots fine.

 

[ 03-22-2007, 03:13 PM: Message edited by: Mark Banaszak @ JMQM ]

[Jerosu]

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ah! thats o.k. storky. forget about it.

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Ya no apology necessary. But thanks.