Problem With solid edge and lathe toolpath

[SmaDoc]

I am somewhat new to mastercam, and am having problems assigning a tool path to a part I created using solid edge. When I try to apply a rough tool path to the part using the chain method, it wont let me select the contour of the part, only these lines that run vertical. The lines look to be forming the part but when I try to use them as a chain and click done it comes up with a warning "Warning - the contour does not lie in the construction plane." I don't know if maybe I'm missing something (besides the chuck and stock boundries) or if it just doesnt like how I drew the part in solid edge. I uploaded a screenshot after the error popped up. Its located on the ftp in the all pictures folder, the file name is lathe_toolpath_smadoc.jpg (if needed I can upload more or better screen shots). I've checked in other posts but didn't see anything that helped, and the book was no help either. I hope someone has an answer

Thanks,

Sam

[Trevor Bailey]

Try sitching your cplane to +DZ first. If you are trying to turn the profile, think in terms of the OUTER profile. It looks as though you have two circles selected that are in the wrong plane for turning the od of the part. Email the file to me if you would like and I will doctor it for you.

[Jean-Simon]

Hi Sam, welcome to the forum, you'll need the solid option to be able to apply tollpaths on a solid model, if you have it, you'll need to tell the system the part is a solid: "toolpath-rough-solid" an then the system extract a temporary profile of your part so you can chain it.HTH

 

 

Simon

[SmaDoc]

Thanks for the welcome Jean-Simon. I do believe I have the solid option when I goto toolpath, rough, I see the solids option, I can use that and the profile that I want to cut highlights in blue, and I can click on the profile parts, but as soon I click done it goes away, and doesnt seem to do anything. Trevor, thanks for the offer to doctor my file(s), but for now I don't want to bother you too much with it, and I'd like to try fixing it my self, incase I run into this problem again.

Thanks for the info so far ,

Sam

 

[ 11-13-2003, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: SmaDoc ]

[the1yyz]

If you use the constrction attributes and tools in Solid Edge you can make you part into a Suface instead of a solid. Or output it in Iges and import into MCAM and it will convert it to a tirmmed surface.

Then you should be able to use it.

[SmaDoc]

I thank everyone for their help, I finally figured out that I wasn't clicking the final done button when using the solids command (toolpath, rough, solids) once I did that it worked, now I just need to play around with it and actully setup the stock and chuck like we'd be using here.

Thanks again,

Sam