Drilling Splines (no arc center) and why Verisurf addons are fantastic

[Tyler Robertson]

If someone knows an easier way to do this, feel free to make me feel stupid; once I downloaded the Verisurf Add-ons for Mastercam, it was smooth sailing.

 

The part I have has thousands of holes to be 5ax drilled on a curved solid face.

Came in from UG and doesn't have any center points for the holes in the solid - all the geometry on them is splines. Creating curves on the face makes splines around the holes because the surface is curved.

 

I tried everything:

-Simplify / Break Many

-Project to plane / Save contour op with create arcs

etc.

Nothing seemed to work.

 

installed the Verisurf add-ons (had used HoleAxis before)

-Used Verisurf Surface Points > Curve to Points and Vectors

 

set the edge to half the hole diameter and perfect vectors/center points were createded almost instantly for many thousands of holes.

 

Thanks Verisurf - saved me a lot of time today!

[Steve Hattori]

If the hole has an inner surface, I have used create point-dynamic-line and put the radius of the hole in for an offset. Then position the dynamic arrow on the hole's inner surface and click, and it produces a line normal to the surface with the length set same as the radius, so the endpoint is right in the middle of the hole. This dynamic line is useful for making axis-control lines for 5axis-curve routines, also.

But, Verisurf's way sounds easier, and I normally use Hole-Axis.

[Roger Peterson]

hey tyler what's up?

 

FBM drill will create the "additional geometry" you need also.

 

But I use hole axis all the time!

 

 

there are other ways also, constant parameter curve, solids find features, etc... none are as easy as hole axis. Thanks Ernie!

[Müřlıń®]

blind or thru holes?

 

Blind would have a bottom perpendicular with the hole and the chain should turn into an arc with a center on create arcs from splines......

 

 

Maybe find fearutres of solids...

 

Other than that I don't know...Verisurf sounds pretty easy...

[Tyler Robertson]

Hey Rodger - what's up? Robots, carnage, t0olpathing, ... trying to catch up on sleep from last week. oof.

How you doing?

 

tried fbm drill to do this at first - it's great for things like this but I think there was just too much.

 

 

As for the part,

They're unfortunately thru holes, on a curved 1" thick sheet. How many holes? 30,000...

 

but thanks for the suggestions guys

[Guest]

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trying to catch up on sleep from last week. oof.

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Wednesday morning you looked OK Tyler, but by 11:00am you looked like you were heading into "serious" crash territory

 

[Tyler Robertson]

Ran out of memory

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

I tried everything:

-Simplify / Break Many

-Project to plane / Save contour op with create arcs

etc.

Nothing seemed to work.

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That`s not everything.... ha-ha

 

untrim surface always works

[Tyler Robertson]

I'm not sure how untrimming the surface will create the hole centre points..

 

Worked fine to calculate the vectors - needed to do that anyway

[Günther Massimo - GMCCS]

This is what I do.

-Untrimm the inner surface.

-Create edgcurve => arc

[Tyler Robertson]

That definitely works - good suggestion!

 

Unfortunately for my 30,000 holes it's quite difficult to go that route.

[Günther Massimo - GMCCS]

prodrill

[Colin Gilchrist]

+1 for ProDrill.

 

You could do all the holes in a few minutes. ProDrill is what FBD aspires to be.

 

Hey Tyler, I'm finally getting around to playing with RobotMaster for our Fanuc 2000iA robot. Most fun I've had in a long time.

[Guest]

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Hey Tyler, I'm finally getting around to playing with RobotMaster for our Fanuc 2000iA robot. Most fun I've had in a long time.

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Don't get out much, eh Colin?

 

[Colin Gilchrist]

At work John, at work.

 

I have a great social life, especially being a single bachelor.

[Steve Hattori]

Colin-" this thread is worthless without pics"

 

[Colin Gilchrist]

Yeah, and it's going to stay worthless...

 

Haha. Like I'm going to post up pics of the girls I'm dating here.

 

Er, well, I should say 'girl', because I only date one at a time.

 

I have very high standards though. You would be impressed.

 

But yeah, worthless without the pics... Just take my word for it.

[Tyler Robertson]

shows how much of a life I have... I thought you meant pics of his robot.

 

Robots are more fun and frustrating than most things.

 

even dating!

 

COlin, you could post pictures and they could be rated by how many guys e-mail saying emastercam is is now banned at their work

[Colin Gilchrist]

Oh I could get this site banned in a hurry if I started posting pics. Of course I'd be fired as well so thats not going to happen.

 

I would love to post up pics of the robot arm, but sadly, I'm not allowed.

 

I figured you'd have all sorts of women chasing you Tyler. Being in a band and all...

[j.nguyen]

First....I know this is a Mastercam forum...so don't get all excited.....

 

Tyler can you bring it back into UG and program the holes there? I am only saying this, because it would take about 20 seconds to drill the 30,000 holes including generating the toolpath. You would not have to create a single piece of geo. You simply select the face that has the holes in it " all holes in face" It even lets you select all holes in face between min and max hole sizes. Then you select "normal to part surface" and generate.

Since you work for in house can this be put into the suggestion box?

 

Jamey

 

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