no feed output on circ. toolpaths

[Francis Farmer]

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Everytime I try to bore a hole useing circ mill, or program a thrd mill, mastercam outputs a plunge feed, and a machining feed value of zero, no matter what I enter into my tool parameters, or the operation parameters. Can anyone offer any insight into this? I'm using V9.

 

Thanks,

Francis

[robk]

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Does this sound familiar to anyone?

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No problem here... When backplotting what are the feed rates on the bottom of the screen? Make sure the verbose mode is turned to ON in the backplot display options.

[crazy^millman]

Sounds like either the post is not reading the correct data or your post is not updating. Do this please post this section from your post.

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pcirout         #Output to NC of circular interpolation                                

pcan1, pbld, n, `sgfeed, sgplane, sgcode, sgabsinc, pwcs, pccdia,

pxout, pyout, pzout, pcout, parc, feed, strcantext, scoolant, e

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I would also check My Job Setup to make sure you do not have adjust arc feed move checked.

 

Crazy Millman

[Francis Farmer]

Plunge feed is 6ipm as I'd programmed, but x/y feed is .01ipm.

[robk]

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Plunge feed is 6ipm as I'd programmed, but x/y feed is .01ipm.

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.01ipm

That can't be what you want... Could it???

 

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I would also check My Job Setup to make sure you do not have adjust arc feed move checked.

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+1 Millman. That's the default on the job setup screen.

 

[ 01-19-2004, 05:05 PM: Message edited by: robk ]

[robk]

Are you regenerating the operation after you make the change?

[Francis Farmer]

I'm mildly embarassed to say that I did have the minimum arc feed box checked in "job setup". Thanks MillMan, I unchecked it and all is well (time went from 6 hrs to 40 seconds). I really appreciate everyone's speedy responses, I can't believe I got hung up on that.

-Francis

[crazy^millman]

Dont feel bad it has bit me too. I had a 70" dia mold I was working on and I was in the same boat going WTF. Then I just figured it out after many times of editing the program to take the .01 feed moves.

 

Crazy Millman