Surface High Speed (Rest roughing)

[Slick]

I am trying to remove a lot of material using the rest mill function. I have my boundary set to contain the part. I have the ramping function set/Transitions (and yes, I understand there is an arc entry/exit function). What I am not seeing is a ramp move when the tool enters material, it just wants to refer to the "Linking Parameters" page. Is there a correct way to set the functions to force a ramp move whenever entering material? Or is this a crap shoot that is left up to MasterCAM?

[neil qwerty]

I have not had much success with rest roughing entering the material, I only use this toolpath if I'm using a ballnose. I don't know why we can't have the same entry options that are available with Rough, Pocket. It may help if you turn off "optimize" (if that option is available in High Speed), but you'll probably end up with a lot of air cutting.

 

HTH,

Neil.

[Slick]

Okay, so this is kind of a hard to explain... I have a Rest Mill toolpath created before upgrading to X2, and the tool ramps on all of it's entry's (that it needs to). When I open the file in X2 and regen the toolpath it blows out all of the ramp moves. I really need to know if this is a parameter setting and how to fix it. Please please please help! Feel free to e-mail as well.