Spring passes

[MrFish]

Anyone know why they dropped the ability to do spring passes when you have an overlap set in the pocket toolpath finish lead in/out.

 

Had totally forgot that it used to work until I opened up some old proven files today and kept getting the "spring passes not output with lead in/out overlap" warning. These files have the .MCX extension so from memory that was up to X4 ? so it used to work up until X5 I think ?

[FROZEN]

I'm pretty sure it did not work in X6

[jorges]

Mr. Fish , coincidentally I asked [email protected] about it and this was the response:

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The problem is that the Overlap and the Spring Pass options don't play well together. This combination can and has causes issues in the past that caused parts to be scrapped. So for now it's it prevents the user from selecting these options together. At some point in the future, when time permits we would like to take a closer look at to see if there's a better way to support them.

 

Regards

 

Ryan Butt | Quality Control

CNC Software, Inc. | 671 Old Post Road | Tolland, CT 06084 | USA

Phone: 860.875.5006 | Fax: 860.872.1565 | www.mastercam.com

[brandon b]

I had this problem last week. Didn't know why, now I do. Had a simple pocket with a finish pass and the finish pass was gouging the part by .03 thou!! Drove me nuts cuz I copied the tool path and rechainied it to the pocket right next to it. And that one ran fine.

[MrFish]

Mr. Fish , coincidentally I asked [email protected] about it and this was the response:

'

The problem is that the Overlap and the Spring Pass options don't play well together. This combination can and has causes issues in the past that caused parts to be scrapped. So for now it's it prevents the user from selecting these options together. At some point in the future, when time permits we would like to take a closer look at to see if there's a better way to support them.

 

Regards

 

Ryan Butt | Quality Control

CNC Software, Inc. | 671 Old Post Road | Tolland, CT 06084 | USA

 

 

 

thanks jorges - good to know they are working on it !

Phone: 860.875.5006 | Fax: 860.872.1565 | www.mastercam.com