Toolpath verify tips?

[bmilford]

Does anyone have any tips for the verify operation?

I have a large part that takes at least 30 mins. to verify a rough parallel toolpath, if it even finishes without locking up my machine. I haven't been able to succesfully save it to use in a secondary operation yet.

If you look at my sig. you'll see that my computer should be up to the task. I have looked at all of the settings that I can think of and cannot find anything that will speed things up.

 

Thanks, Brian

[Thad]

Do you have the speed slider all the way up?

 

Thad

[neil qwerty]

Are you using Turbo mode?

 

Neil.

[bmilford]

Thad, yes

 

Neil, No

 

The settings that I am using are, tool only (no holder), 1000 moves/step, 1000 moves/refresh (this makes things faster visually), slider to quality (I want to use this for another operation), no other boxes checked, and speed slider all of the way up.

It just finished (at least its telling me 100%) the window is not refreshing and it will show whatever window was up prevous in the drawing area. I can try saving a .stl file but the last time this happened it was not there when I tried to verify the next operation.

Thanks, Brian

[iowajim62]

I read in another thread about changing the tool tolerance and to set it lower like .003,turbo mode is faster but you don't get to watch it

[bmilford]

I'll try setting the tool tolerance higher, I can't use turbo mode as I want to save the .stl and us it in another toolpath.

 

Thanks, Brian

[bmilford]

I broke the part up into smaller peices and got a verify done. I tried to save the .stl, and when I look at the properties for it, the file size is 0Kb?????

Is anyone else having this issue?

 

Thanks, Brian

[neil qwerty]

Brian, I use turbo mode all the time and I can save the file as stl for use in other operations, make sure you're in "True solid" mode. Try using turbo mode and the "step" button to step through the verification (play with the move/step settings, I usually start around 500) although this doesn't show the tool, it's does do a pretty good job of showing you what the cutter is doing.

 

I've never had the 0kb problem but I'm still running on V9.

 

Neil.

[bmilford]

If I remember correctly we had errors when we opened the stl to use for the next operation when using turbo.

Tried saving the stl again, still 0Kb, then locked up.

 

Brian

[Gary]

Can you put it up on the ftp to see if someone else has any luck.

[Guest]

be careful using turbo to generate stls to machine from.

 

Here is a normal one simply done using fast forward

 

 

Here is the same one done using turbo

 

 

 

Think the stock definitions might be "slighty" different?

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

bmilford,

 

Are you filtering your rough parallel toolpath. Verify works much faster with a filtered toolpath. For roughing I usually use the following settings.

 

Ratio 2:1

Total tolerance .010

create arcs in XYZ

 

Justin

[bmilford]

Gary, I'll try, how do I post it on the ftp?

 

Justin, We where told that our post processor has a hard time with filtering, we are using a Thermwood Machine.

 

Thanks, Brian

[bmilford]

I've tried to post to the ftp I can't get past the login, should I use my login info from the forums?

 

Brian

[bmilford]

This is what I see when I look at Mastercam after the toolpath verify is done. If I have a window over the Mastercam window and close or minimize it it stays for 30 seconds and Mastercam doesn't respond.