Needing some help.

[outrageousj21]

hello everyone. long time reader first time poster. ok were do I start. I have a Atrump mill with the centroid m400 controls. mastercam is vr. 3.21 I have only programmed parts on intercon controls never needed to use the mastercam software. so this is were the fun part comes in. were currently running a cam wheel it is a one off part the original part is on a machine from the forty's or fifties. there was no drawing or documentation on the part. and the grove is so worn out from the cam follower that you can only make out were the follower used to run. but in the bottom of the grove you can make out the original path . so having this information I figured why not use the digitizer and catch that lip then pull the points on the inner and outer wall to were they needed to be on the mastercam. so it was my firs time using the digitizer so I ran a part not very complex just to see how it worked. I called and grabbed the demo from centroid to unlock everything on the machine, proceeded to slowly copy the part. saved the copy. went to the utilities did the dig to cad conversion loaded the part up with the new .doc extension. so far so good now the problem is how do I create a tool path off of that part. I mean I see it in 2 d so how do I tell the depths and where to start and end. I mean I will have to cut this groove 1 inch deep and 1.2 ish inches wide in a cam grove pattern any help will be greatly appreciated . I know my description is lacking so ask me any questions you need to become clear. I have called every tech support I can think of and its just to old no one knows anything to help. I need some people with real world knowledge to give a helping hand to us young pups. P.S. just because of this post don't think I don't know how to run a machine. I mean I can definitely make some chips. first time stuck in 3 yrs. just didn't learn mastercam as well as I should have. and all because of one part. thanks again, Jesse looking forward to hear all the info I can get.

[Guest]

Did you REALLY type 3.21?

 

I have not seen that in 20 years

[outrageousj21]

yes lol one hundered percent v.3.21

[outrageousj21]

any advice. im still looking for info on the net and calling people. time is not much of a friend right now

[gcode]

frankly, I'm amazed that you've managed to keep compatible hardware running all these years.

My earliest experience with MC was V5 which ran on Win 3.1 ( I think???)

What does V3 run on?? DOS??

[htm01]

frankly, I'm amazed that you've managed to keep compatible hardware running all these years.

My earliest experience with MC was V5 which ran on Win 3.1 ( I think???)

What does V3 run on?? DOS??

yes , i still have a machine at home with it on and an old white parallel hasp

[EX-wccprogrammer]

Early in my career, I used V3.2 for editing on the shop floor. I am afraid that I do not have much help to offer, as it has been a significant amount of time. Good Luck with your project.

[outrageousj21]

good old dos.

[outrageousj21]

if it wasn't a dos machine I would be using solid cam. just not able to with this one. thanks so far hopefully someone can give me something

[outrageousj21]

htmo1 have you had a chance to use a digitizer on your machine. have any ideas.

[htm01]

htmo1 have you had a chance to use a digitizer on your machine. have any ideas.

no , we used an outside source back then (about 20 yrs ago) and they gave us NC code from digitizing.

[ToolMan184]

I have an ATRUMP mill with MC built into it. It is Mill level 1, we have never used it. We use this old granny to engrave parts mostly and sometimes rough stock removal.

 

I opened the MC once and seen how old it was, it gave me cold chills until I could get it closed Reminded me of how old I am. I started with MC in Ver. 3