Jump to content

Welcome to eMastercam

Register now to participate in the forums, access the download area, buy Mastercam training materials, post processors and more. This message will be removed once you have signed in.

Use your display name or email address to sign in:

Curve Driven Pattern? Rotate with Z move?


Bcasteel
 Share

Recommended Posts

Does anyone know of a good way to pattern/transform operations for something that needs to both rotate and move along an axis. all of the cuts are the same. currently we use a translate between planes for each cut sometimes hundreds of pattern operations (also trying to prevent lots of tool changes) but i was wanting to find a better method.Helix.jpg

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

yea that is what i was hoping to avoid 33 pockets each with a bunch of operations then circular pattern it 3 times. we make a couple parts like this each week i was just hopeful that a faster way existed in Mastercam in Solidworks its a nice easy curve driven pattern.

 

 

Also i like your signature!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yea we recently started using the multi-axis drilling operation and that has cut down on the total number of operations. Unfortunately i am unable to share the model due to company policy's

 

so from the sounds of it we probably are already doing it the most efficient way. programing one cut then transforming it to all the rest then doing the final transform but it can get confusing on some of the parts.

 

the only other idea i had was maybe with a custom post edit and using the custom parameters fields in a rotate transform i could get and axis move between each instance but that might be a question for my re-seller.

 

helix2.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

yea that is what i was hoping to avoid 33 pockets each with a bunch of operations then circular pattern it 3 times. we make a couple parts like this each week i was just hopeful that a faster way existed in Mastercam in Solidworks its a nice easy curve driven pattern.

 

 

Also i like your signature!

If you do this a couple of times a week, I'd have a template file set up with my tools/speeds/feeds/doc's etc and all depths set to inc.

Then just select the geo as per JP said and copy rotate.

 

John/Everyone - what about the ATP add-on? Would that help in any way?

Edit - would a custom CHook help - if this was that repetitive it maybe worth the time creating?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

To the best of my knowledge, ATP is geared towards routers but designed cut cutting mainly flat panel type things....

 

Layout your flat geometry on specific levels, then those levels can be picked up and certain toolpaths then applied.

 

Think Cabinetry and all the panels required

 

I am not certain it would be of any use on something like this...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

Join us!

eMastercam - your online source for all things Mastercam.

Together, we are the strongest Mastercam community on the web with over 56,000 members, and our online store offers a wide selection of training materials for all applications and skill levels.

Follow us

×
×
  • Create New...