top of stock op defaults

[Sbarner]

So when I go to start certain toolpaths, and head down to the linking parameters, my top of stock is always set at -.01. I've checked my operation defaults, which showed 0 in the field. I made sure that they stuck by changing them to 0 and re-saving it. Then doing it again. And again. I've saved the defaults directly from the toolpath pages. This doesn't work either. My geometry is drawn at Z0.0. I'm stumped.

[Sbarner]

This is X5MU1 by the by.

[Oppiz]

Sometimes it can be getting the stock from how you have your stock setup in the machine group.

[Sbarner]

In this case, there was no stock defined. It was just a bunch of drilling ops and I didn't need to setup stock for it.

[within a thou]

it may be picking up your last defined stock if you don't have stock defined for this part. Had that happen to me the other day couldn;t figure out wth was goin on.

[K2csq7]

Not sure how you went about saving your defaults, but the ONLY way it worked for me was to shut down mcam. Browse to the control def file and double click it, which will then open up mcam for you. Then go to settings, control def manager, operations defaults, make the changes to the linking params of the op type you want, hit the save icon in the top right of the operation parameters window (it will then say "library updated successfully") then green check out of that window, hit the save icon in the control def manager, then green check out of that, then go to file, new, click yes when it asks you to save, but red X out of the save as window.

 

Doesn't make much sense to me, but the changes stuck so thats what I do!

Good luck!