sketch parametric ????

[rdkllkng]

Good Morning Guy's,

This sketch parametric c-hook came up in my family of parts programming post on the regular forum. Gilberto suggested it. When I my reseller about it They about croaked, stating they would not support it. The reason was it crashed a couple of there computers to the point of reinstalling windows. Is this c-hook a problem? Any experience Positive or negative???

 

Being raised in the world of apt and plug and play macros on simliar parts, the boss say's can't that be done in mastercam??? My uneducated reply to him( and I stress uneducated being a rookie at this)Kind of. We just rechain geometry now after importing the proven operations. He would like more, just imput dimensions and go. My brain says somewhere somehow that could happen with Mastercam if someone with the smarts wrote the right .net/chook. I do not have the smarts for that yet. Someday,the good Lord willing I will. I have come to learn of the wealth of knowledge here on the forums and respect it. So here is the Real question is something like this possible? is it possible but not practical(err whut????). I hope I haven't made this sound more confusing than it is. Looking forwards to hearing the opinions of the M.O.M.'S(Masters of Mastercam)

 

 

Thanks

 

Terry

X2 Mr2 SP1

SOLIDS

MILL3

LATHE

Dresser-Rand

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Once upon a time, the Developers of Moldplus created something called ParaPlus (I think). This was back in the V8 or EARLY V9 days. It gave 2D stuff the ability to be spreadsheet driven. It was slick. I WISH they would have continued development on it. It was limited to 2D in Top Plane but man, even with the limitatins it was excellent. I wish they would have continued development on it.

 

 

In a word YES it is possible and feasible though.

[Bruce Caulley]

I gave the sketch parametric chook a trial for a while. I had no real problems with it. MC DEFINATELY needs something like this.

 

Bruce

[cobra95kev]

Do I need to contact my reseller for this c-hook?

Or is it one you just purchase from another company?

 

Thanks,

[rdkllkng]

Thanks for the info. I forgot to mention that the parts I am talking about are lathe parts and 2-d geometry.

[Gilberto]

rdkllkng,

We install the Sketch Parametric chook in all our customers and never had such strange stories...

 

If you want, send me a sample geometry and will tell you if the Sketch Parametric chook can help in your work.

 

[ 01-15-2008, 10:38 AM: Message edited by: Gilberto ]

[rdkllkng]

Thanks Gilberto. Did your investigation into what Shopware told me come up with anything??

[Gilberto]

Not yet.

[MDG99]

Terry,

 

I too came from a world of fully relative

simple geomety construction ; a world where

demand variables allowed you to prompt the

user ( usually yourself) for input.

In my opinion the oldies like CompactII

and Apt360 were second to none when you

have a family of parts to program ; you

could create a "G-Code" macro but then the

operator has way too many variables to deal with

and too much margin for errors each time a

change is made from part to part.

Did you have any success finding this

"sketch parametric" application ?

What other ideas have you seen for FOP

programming with Mastercam ?

 

Surely there is a better way than drawing

( or copy /modify)your new configuration

and re-select geom for every toolpath !