Operations Manager Question?

[slyym]

I have a bunch of mill operations under a multus lathe machine group. We are now going to run the mill work on a regular 4th axis mill. I just realized that I might just have to redo all these operations because I cant seem to find a way to change from a lathe group to a mill group without losing all my operations so that I will have the correct post. Does anyone know around this or am I stuck redoing everything? Thanks.

[gcode]

Add a New Mill Machine group to the same file and load the desired machine def

Create the proper WCS for the milling and copy all your lathe milling ops to the mill group

If you used C axis milling and drilling in your lathe file, those ops may have to be done over

I don't think they will move to a mill machine def properly.

I always use the mill toolpaths only  for just this reason.

It makes it easier to switch from mill to mill/turn and back when the shop floor can't make up their mind where

a job is going to be run

[slyym]

How do you copy it though? I've tried to drag them over but it always just puts them in the same group but at the bottom.

[David Colin]

Actually you can replace a lathe machine with a mill machine definition even if mastercam makes you think you can't !

Then you can tweak your ops if needed (for wcs or anything) then post

 

Here is a tiny video to show you how to cheat with Mastercam...

[gcode]

Actually you can replace a lathe machine with a mill machine definition even if mastercam makes you think you can't !

Then you can tweak your ops if needed (for wcs or anything) then post

 

Here is a tiny video to show you how to cheat with Mastercam...

 

I've done this before, but if there are incompatible operations the new machine won't stick.. it just reverts back to the original machine def 

[gcode]

How do you copy it though? I've tried to drag them over but it always just puts them in the same group but at the bottom.

don't drag and drop

 

place the Red Arrow of Doom in the new milling group

the copy/paste from the lathe def to the mill def

[slyym]

Thanks Gcode dint know that could be done! David that is exactly what I needed to do, Thanks!!!