New HSM feature/ bug?

[Bob W.]

I am machining a mold that has a flat region with a post in the center as I have done many times in the past and I am having issues with X9.  This is no-brainer stuff and all I am doing is reassigning new geometry to a proven toolpath.  It seems to want to add extra tool shank clearance around the post???  How do I turn this off?  is it a bug?  I have looked everywhere in the operation menus and nothing jumps out at me.  This is for all of the 3D HST toolpaths from what I can tell and it is extremely frustrating.  Programming this part should have taken 20 minutes plus 10 for regeneration.  These few toolpaths alone have taken longer than that...

[Bob W.]

I got it working by deselecting the post geometry and using full vertical retract.  This sucks because it is going to be herky jerky on the machine and it has 100 retracts instead of a butter smooth toolpath with feed transitions.   #$&^#$!!!  This crap is annoying!

[BenK]

Did you have the collision avoidance enabled on the tool holder page?

[Bob W.]

Did you have the collision avoidance enabled on the tool holder page?

No.

[Müřlıń®]

If this is an X8 op that has been brought into X9 you might want to just build a new X9 op.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Hi Bob,

 

Can you share a file? Pretty difficult to diagnose any toolpath issue without one...

 

You said "reassign geometry to a proven path". <<<< What proven path? Was it originally a path done in X9 from scratch, or are you taking a path from previous version of Mastercam, and updating it?

 

Are you using "check" geometry? Try going into the "Check" selection, and just make sure you "clear" everything out.

 

What about Containment Boundaries? Are you using one? Do you have more than one?

 

Whenever I encounter something "weird" like this, I usually take a couple screen shots of the toolpath parameter settings, and then create a new operation from scratch, while trying to match the previous operation settings.

 

Also, when was the last time you restarted your computer? Have you run RAM-Saver recently? Are you running more than one session of Mastercam at a time?

 

Thanks,

 

Colin

[Bob W.]

Hi Bob,

 

Can you share a file? Pretty difficult to diagnose any toolpath issue without one...

 

You said "reassign geometry to a proven path". <<<< What proven path? Was it originally a path done in X9 from scratch, or are you taking a path from previous version of Mastercam, and updating it?

 

Are you using "check" geometry? Try going into the "Check" selection, and just make sure you "clear" everything out.

 

What about Containment Boundaries? Are you using one? Do you have more than one?

 

Whenever I encounter something "weird" like this, I usually take a couple screen shots of the toolpath parameter settings, and then create a new operation from scratch, while trying to match the previous operation settings.

 

Also, when was the last time you restarted your computer? Have you run RAM-Saver recently? Are you running more than one session of Mastercam at a time?

 

Thanks,

 

Colin

Hi Colin,

Restarting Mastercam didn't help.  Pretty simple toolpath really.  It was created in X8 on a previous mold.  No check geometry, everything is drive with one containment boundary.  It is acting like there is a .25" safety zone around the vertical feature.  It is a post surrounded by an injection runner and I have literally made a hundred of these in the past.  Made a new toolpath in X9 and same problem.  I am also running solide and all geometry selected is solids other than the containment boundary.  Restarted my computer about 20 minutes ago...

[Bob W.]

Also, the cutting tool is an assembly so I brought in the cutter only and that didn't help.

[BenK]

That is about the only thing I can think of off without seeing the file. Shoot me an email if you would like me to take a look.