Toolpath Verification

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Is there any way to remove uncut material from a toolpath in verify so that you can see the material that you cut, as you can only make square stock sizes. I have tried making another toolpath to machine away the uncut stock but would like to know if there is another way of doing this

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Removing chips after a verification makes it easier to see just the part or the "chips" which are pieces of uncut material left from the machining simulation. This option is available in Mastercam Mill, Router, and Wire, but not in Mastercam Lathe, and is only available in TrueSolid mode with tool simulation. Removing chips is especially helpful when verifying parts in Mastercam Wire. The following graphics show a Wire part before and after chip removal.

 

 

1. Choose Verify from the Operations Manager or choose Main Menu, NC utils, Verify.

 

2. On the Verify toolbar, choose the Configure button. The Verify configuration dialog box opens.

 

3. In the Tool section of the dialog box, select Solid tool or Display holder option to turn on tool simulation.

 

4. In the Miscellaneous section, select the Use TrueSolid check box to turn on TrueSolid mode.

 

5. Also in the Miscellaneous section, select the Remove chips check box.

 

6. Choose OK to return to the Verify toolbar.

 

7. Run the verification. If a one solid chip (other than the part) remains after the verification is done, the Chip removal menu displays.

 

8. Use one of the following methods to remove chips:

 

¨ Choose Pick to keep and select a solid from the graphics window. Verify removes all other solids.

 

¨ Choose Pick to delete and select a solid from the graphics window to remove the chip, Undo to replace the last removed chip in the graphics window, or Reset chips to replace all removed chips.

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[Rekd™]

Why not use an STL file as your stock, instead of a box?

 

Verify

Configure

Stock = File

 

HTH

[S/X]

Iskander

 

Thank-you that worked perfect. I'm not overly familiar with the acronyms that you guys use.

For instance, what does the "Teh" mean in your

name, I've seen it quite a bit?

[Todd Patterson]

Another cool thing is setting the stock to translucent, then you can see through everything.

[Brendan P]

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For instance, what does the "Teh" mean in your

name, I've seen it quite a bit?

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coxy,do a search on this.

Teh topic has been covered many times.

 

Sometimes I will run some toolpaths on my "square or round stock" to get a shape.

Then you can verify the toolpath in true solid and then save as an stl.

Now you can call up this stl file in verify as your new stock to machine so now it is not just a block.

HTH

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Coxy !

 

Teh is perverted the .

 

Rekd is teh originator ,ergo :

Rekd is original teh .

[Thad]

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coxy,do a search on this.

Teh topic has been covered many times.

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The problem is that if you do a search for teh, you'll get hits on half the posts since mid last year.

 

Thad

[S/X]

Thanks for the help everyone, much appreciated

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Coxy !

Thank U 4 UR thank U.