Lazy Iskander dirty tricks Inc .

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I want to revive the thread ,

I still have some more to say ,

Most of this stuff is for ver9 ,most must work in X too ,

So the question that comes like this :

Who is still interested in ver9 tricks ?

[ak762]

Happy New Year! Iskander, Don't sleep still in such day?

Always interesting to know a new triks if you can add something to ver9.

[Elad]

i will be happy to learn some more of your tricks.

it could be nice if i coul'd have few new tricks even during the day

[Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd]

excuse the dumb a$$ question, but how do I go to the FTp site to look at files I I do what it says at the top of this page I get an error asking if I have permission to be view the site??

[Thee Cutterman]

Still interested in any v9 tricks Iskander. Goin to wait another year until we upgrade to X. Might not post back here in your thread but you have tought me a HEAP over the years. Always a pleasure to learn from you.

 

vanvany

You may want to read thru this first.

 

Ftp upload instructions

 

Username-Mastercam

Password-Swiss

 

You will have to use IE to access it. If you still have problems, do a serch on FTP Site. There has been a ton of threads with all the problems solved in them. One of the most common is-

 

Internet options / Avanced Tab / uncheck " Use Passive FTP"

 

:cheers:Darren

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Hello ,folks .

I want to show tons of tricks with pocket toolpath ,but first of all kinda quiz .

Have a look on the file TPOKETPROBLEM.ZIP in

/mastercam_forum/Iskander_Lazytricks on cadcam

FTP site .

You will see 2 similar from the first glance operations and geo`s .

Can you say why the first toolpath no go ,and the

second one good ?

 

I will wait for the good answer .

[JG]

The line .1 long created a crossing chain, which for some reason (I haven't figured out yet)is designated as the area to machine so by default the other two are not machined, since the tool is to large... no toolpath.

 

thanks

 

Jg.

[Cuda84]

The middle point on the -Y side has crossing geometry.

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Yes ,that`s absolutly true and you can easily generate this crossing geometry by mistake :

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The line .1 long created a crossing chain, which for some reason

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if you have a step 10*30 mm and make chamfer 5.05 on contour with it you will get thing like that :

This is a fault of mastercam chamfering algorithm and this is what I check first when pocket gives weird results :

sometimes even funnier than that and I have my ways to recreate complex geometry fast without them (analize contour or chain would not help here )

 

Now Mastercam pocket algorithm is very special ,not one other Cam I worked with has some features that you can achive using it and I will show this later

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tHIS IS An old trick with pocket toolpath

(works in 99.9 % of cases )

Limitation (not stable on nested pockets )

Backplot your toolpath before machining

This is very useful thing when you use clamps with pockets

I draw the clamp + safety distance and use

clamp as geometry

If I want to move clamp i simply drag it to the other place and make regen

After the clamp change use pocket remachining toolpath

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WOW .

I found something cool for ver9 .

It was implemented in X .

Anyone intrzted ?

[HevyMetl]

I am always interested in a new tool for the box. What have you got? Questioning minds want to know.

[jeff]

yes!

jeff teh stuck on V9 till I die.

[fabriz]

thanks for sharing your experience with all of us.merry christmas to you and your family.looking forward to next year and i hope that you continue to share your knowledge with us.

[TonyNanni@BNB]

the thread is not working for me. do i need a special password??

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the thread is not working for me. do i need a special password??

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all the files were moved into Iskander_Lazytricks folder

On CadCam`s FTP site (many thanks to Jay )

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merry christmas to you and your family

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We feel better with Happy Chanuka .

Still many thanks and Merry Christmas to everyone

related .

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For ver9

wHEN YOU HAVE geometry too complex

like this

And you can not sort it by layers

looking at your geometry in chain manager would not give you too much

I do this

In chain manager proceed to add geometry

press Alt+E to start hide function

select some not related geometry like one point

press done

all your screen will be free from geometry

Press backup

select your geometry and you will see all the entities related

 

[TonyNanni@BNB]

very cool. I just tryed it in X2 and it works

 

Happy Holidays

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iN x2 YOU DO NOT NEED IT

 

You have "only display associative geometry " button

 

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Only display associative geometry - Displays all geometry associated with the selected operations. This includes geometry that was previously hidden or blanked using Screen menu functions, and geometry on levels that were not marked as Visible in the Level Manager.

[TonyNanni@BNB]

where is this button

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n operation manager window the last right-most button in the second row

[TonyNanni@BNB]

found it

[Q Havest]

Iskander teh Owl, your link dont work.

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What exactly do you mean ?

If you mean links to the files ,Jay moved all of them to different folder- Iskander_Lazytricks something

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I am preparing a bunch of tricks for X2

It will be completly new stuff