Surface finish contour randomly scaling cuts in X7

[Kevin Kostiuk]

I have 2 guys in the shop seeing this and I'm not sure whats going on. Please see the attached image. We are running X7 SP2. It only happens using surface finish contour and not all the time. What happens is Mastercam appears to be scaling up the size of the part being cut. Usually you can just re-pick the surfaces to force it to recalculate and then it's fine. Sometimes it will create code that is fine but if you go back and change a Z depth it will scale it up. We just had one cut do it and could not get it to fix so we had to create a new operation and then it was fine. Has anyone seen this? Any ideas?

 

Thanks, Kevin K.

[Hardmill]

WOW

Thats a nice one.

 

Perhaps an enhancement ?? :laughing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PEACE

[Micromoldmaker]

Some of the enhancements in X7 caused me to trash a core and weld another a couple of weeks ago. And what's up with the "Create New Tool?" Jeesh....

[Guess_who]

Some of the enhancements in X7 caused me to trash a core and weld another a couple of weeks ago. And what's up with the "Create New Tool?" Jeesh....

 

I generally like most of the X7 improvements, but "create new tool" is not one of them. I opt to copy an old tool now and modify it rather than going thru the new tool generator.

 

I haven't noticed anything funny about the scaling issue. Yet.

[Lindsay W @ In-House Solutions]

Hi Kevin, I also came across this issue, it was moving my toolpath further away from the geometry every time I changed something in the parameters. CNC software has logged this issue so hopefully it will be fixed soon!

[peon]

I have seen that several times and couldn't find a way to prevent it. I used the Waterline path instead in those cases.

[Kevin Kostiuk]

Thanks guys, I have sent one of the files to them so hopefully they can find a problem and get it fixed.

 

Kevin K.