Generating Operations

[j.nguyen]

Hello everyone-

 

It's been a little while since I have used Mastercam, but been using it for the last 12

years off and on.....

 

I have a part that has a lot of closed and open

angles w/ thin walls. The material is Al so I waterline the walls down using Swarf and some of the generating times exceed 15 min for one operation. Does this sound right? If so is there

any tricks to speed up generating times other then going to the local bar and having a cold one

while 4 operations generate?

 

My hardware is intel quad q9550 @ 2.83 GHz W/ 3 gigs of Ram W/ Nvidia GeForce GTS 250

[Tony35]

what version of MC are you running

you could filter the toolpath

[j.nguyen]

Using X4

[Tony35]

what is your tolerance set too?

what are the smoothing settings set at?

[gcode]

have you checked out the new multithreading option

in X4.. not all toolpaths are supported yet, but

it will seriously speed things up if you can use it.

[j.nguyen]

Well, I have come to the conclusion that it is hardware related. While generating a toolpath on another machine w/ the same specs the toolpath generates 5 times faster? Any ideas?

[gcode]

a badly fragmented hard drive can slow you down

and its easy to check..

[Tony35]

i was wondering what it was X4 has some pretty fast crunch times

[j.nguyen]

Figured it out............used the ram saver

[Colin Gilchrist]

Jamie?

[j.nguyen]

Hey Collin......looks like your still at Boeing

[Colin Gilchrist]

Yep, still here. I'll shoot you an email through the board. We should grab a beer sometime and catch up...

 

Err, you should shoot me an email since your profile has no link...

[j.nguyen]

My E-mail is [email protected]

 

I work in the Bomac building in Everett during

the day and In Tacoma at night. I believe you are

right down the street from me....Hit me up

[k turk]

what is the 'ram saver?'

 

my X4 times have barely increased on the benchmark as opposed to others. trying to figure out why. i have multithreading enabled.

 

check out the 'check this out' started by rickster. the last 4 or 5 posts if you want to get caught up.

[j.nguyen]

Thanks K turk....

 

I know every system has it's ups and downs and I don't knock one or the other, but i spend half my day driving toolpaths w/ mastercam and the other half w/ Unigraphic and the weekends Catia V5. I just generated a toolpath that stitches out the corner radii on 3 closed angles in Unigraphics and it takes a second. I bet it would take at least a couple of minutes in Mastercam. Why can one system generate so much quicker?