anyone have trouble with "Custom Tool" in X5

[kennebec]

I use custom tool rather often for those odd undercut face groove tools, my 1st attempt in X5 did not go well and it is rush so I just went back to Mastercam X, anyone else have trouble or is it something I did?

[Guest]

nope, done several lathe and mill ones.

 

A description of what kind of problem would certainly be helpful

[kennebec]

Thanks guys,

Your answers are what I was looking for I will try again, I am sorry you feel I did not give you enough information, I know you all know what custom tools are and it was that simple of a question, have you or have you not had trouble, you have not so I will back track my work and find my error.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Trouble with the custom drawn tools giviong proper code... no, no issues at all. Good code. Trouble with the graphical representation of the cutting section of the tool when I change LOC, Shoulder, OAL relative to the gold color on the tool... yes. I sent it in to QC and recieved a less than satisfactory reply for the first time ever. In a nutshell, it's not a bug.

 

But John is right, more information would have been helpful. It is a simple yes/no answer for you because you are familiar with the unexpected result you are experiencing whereas we are not privy to that information until you share it with us.

[Stefan Salmen]

There is a problem in lathe if you want to use a custom tool from library. A message comes up "Corrupt or infalid file". It´s allready logged as cnc00089243

[Mr. Wizzard]

The only issue i've had is with the custom drawn tool being referenced to the older file. The tool points to the drawing from X4 and gives some kind of warning, can't remember exactly what it said. I had to update the file to the -X5 extension and put it in the shared tools folder and open each tool, so i could switch the filepath and have it point to the new file......

I didn't update the whole tool folder, because I'm guessing it would dump in all the X4 default tools and i don't want that. Kind of a pain to do them one at a time, but I don't know a better way. Maybe someone can suggest a better way to do it, but I'm at a loss.