Tapered Cutters and Verify

[MattMj]

Hello All,

I'm having a problem with X3MU1 showing tapered cutters as straight flute in verify. The cutters are defined correctly and verified correctly before I patched MU1 yesterday. Also in backplot I can see the taper fine. Any help would be welcome.

Thanks,

Matt

[Sbarner]

You may want to play with your verify settings, specifically the parameter of "Tool Profile". I had this problem as well. MU1 defaulted to Auto, so all my threadmills looked like endmills. Once it's changed to "As Defined" it was OK.

[MattMj]

Thanks for the response but unfortunately the "As Defined" is still set in options. I really hope I can solve this because I use allot of tapered cutters. I guess I can go back to X3 unpatched if I have too.

[GMM]

I have also had some of these problems with slot mills and bull nose end mills. I went to settings, configuration, verify settings, and changed it to "auto". This worked for me. I wonder if I will have a problem with custom tool profiles now.

On a side note I have found if you use "turbo" to verify with, the problem tool will always be messed up. It seems to be disreguarding the setting.

[MattMj]

Thank you, "auto" worked in tool profile.

[GMM]

It bugged me to have to change the settings, configuration, verify settings to "auto" so I changed back to "as defined" and went back and had another look.....

 

Another piece of the puzzle is if I open a file created in V9 or X2, when it opens all operations are green checked and look good, "then go directly to verify without regening", I get "corrupt or invalid tool, contact your mastercam dealer". It is now stuck in verify, and I must click OK at the start of each tool to just get thru it and the verify model will be slightly wrong.

 

So if I Regenerate all toolpaths first, then go into verify, the error goes away and it verifies correctly! Yea! hope this helps.