Planes creation

[Guest]

I am curious how "most" of you guys create Tool planes?

 

Myself, I use rotate plane or geometry 100% of the time.

 

How many people use Gview? Problems or issues occasionally?

[gcode]

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rotate plane

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this is ALWAYS my first choice..

no associative geometry to get jacked up

or deleted by mistake

no origins to reset..

can be exported and imported to other files

without trouble..

no invalid axis warnings because a line was

.0001 out of square

[cobra95kev]

When I am rotating about a 4th axis on verts and Horizontals I do rotate about whichever axis.

 

When I create new WCS's I always draw two perp lines and use geometry. I very rarely select geo off of the part for the same reasons gcode mentioned.

[Tim Johnson]

I use geometry or solid face when I can, however when I can't I will draw the the geo the will give me the plane and use geometry. I'm not much of a fan of rotate but I'll use it about a "square" plane.

[crazy^millman]

I use them all, normal, from solid face, geometry, rotate planes, and sometimes planes=gview. I have them on my right click since I use them so much. I have a part for the Integrex that has almost 75 C-planes right now.

[Kyle Waters]

I create most of my geometry and solids so I use rotate about 90% of the time. If I get a model I use solid face. I have only had a few times when the designer cheated and marked up the drawing and didn't change the model. Never had any problems with Mastercam itself.

[#Rekd™]

I use both Gview and rotate geometry.

 

John

[IntegrexMan]

I am with Crazy Millman...the Integrex is very demanding when it comes to plane creation and I use them all.

[3R!< W3NG3R]

geometry here almost 100% of the time.

[Jim at Gentex]

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Myself, I use rotate plane or geometry 100% of the time.

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ditto.

[TK-32™]

Rotating is faster for me.

[Hardmill]

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no associative geometry to get jacked up

or deleted by mistake

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Using geometry is waaaay more reliable then before.

I prolly use it 80% of the time.

 

 

PEACE

[Guest]

Anyone ever have trouble with a plane that won't kick out a rotational value if posted with other paths or only outputs 0 degrees if posted alone?

[crazy^millman]

I see it with Sub spindles. I have to most times shut Mastercam all the way down. I then reopen and it will work. Other times I see it when I mirror geometry to make an opposite hand part. For some reason sometimes my top plane will change to some odd ball number.

[Jim at Gentex]

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Anyone ever have trouble with a plane that won't kick out a rotational value if posted with other paths or only outputs 0 degrees if posted alone?

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I have trouble if I use the 'convert to 5 axis' feature in the multiaxis toolpaths menu. I think it's my post because it not only won't post created toolplane angles, it doesn't even post B and C values at anything but B0 C0 if I use the convert to 5 axis selection.

 

If I use the regular multiaxis / multisurface selection, it works just fine.

 

This is a real bummer b/c the convert to 5 axis is a very nice feature.

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

I usually use rotate, solid face, or geometry.

[Jack Neelands™]

If I am using multiple coordinates then I will draw up two lines for the axis and then hide it on another level ...if I am working world coordinates then its any way that is easier and cheaper to play with

[Zoober]

Depends on what type of model I get/make. Usually rotate, solid face, and geometry. Often, if I know the rotation amounts, then I set to top, then rotate Gview, then Name and Save Current Gview.

 

One trick I've found, is when I bring in Catia files, I make sure to bring in planes and axis'. That way, I can use the Catia sketcher planes to create mcx planes from geometry that someone has already created for me. The tedious work has already been done.

[mgsanchez]

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geometry 100% of the time.

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Same here!

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Anyone ever have trouble with a plane that won't kick out a rotational value if posted with other paths or only outputs 0 degrees if posted alone?

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Rarely, but when I do, it is usually something I did wrong.

 

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[Joeyls319]

I normally use geometry or solid faces. I've only used G view when I really wasn't concerned what angle I was at, I just wanted to rotate the part around so I could clean up a corner or a surface.

 

Joey

[Thad]

Geometry, almost exclusively.

 

Thad

[feedrate]

Geo. Always.

[Jayson Kramer]

Rotate is the #1 for me.

[Bruce Caulley]

I usually use geometry. If I have something where I think there may be access issues I put two lines on a layer and name it. That way if I have access or clearance issues I can rotate the geo a bit and re-gen.

 

Bruce

[TMozzone]

Myself, I use rotate plane or geometry 100% of the time.

 

JP with an "or" statement how can it be 100%?