stock not regonized

[cappy]

All,

 

Sometimes when i program in lathe, the rough cycle does not completlt rough the entire shaft. See attached pic. I have tried several things like re-defining stock and removing duplicate entities but still can not get it to complete the small end of the shaft. Anyone see this before?

 

thanks,

Greg.

[SKIR68]

Are you sure you have everything chained?

Do you have your depth of cut set to high?

[cappy]

Are you sure you have everything chained?

 

Yes, i do this day to day and for some reason I encounter this. In the past I have deleted where it stops roughing down to and re-drawn the geometry.

 

Seems to work, but why? The gremetry was created in MCAM, drawn from old blue print (hand drawn).

 

Thanks again.

Greg.

[SKIR68]

oops! I edited before your post cappy, double check your depth of cut?

[Brad Lisle]

If it is chained properly, have you checked you lead in? adjust contour, extend/shorten? Was the Stock recognition (adjust Stock) changed? or is it "use stock for outer boundary"? Just a few thing to check. What version are you using? looks like V9

[cappy]

If it is chained properly, have you checked you lead in? adjust contour, extend/shorten? Was the Stock recognition (adjust Stock) changed? or is it "use stock for outer boundary"? Just a few thing to check. What version are you using? looks like V9

 

OK, tried several thing as suggested, but nothing worked. Deleted the operation completly and re-created operation, re-chained and it worked????

 

i guess this is what I'll do in the future. thanks.

 

Greg.