2019 CORRUPTS SURFACES GEOM

[DavidB]

Is anyone else seeing funky things with 2019 high speed toolpaths?

I have a good high speed parallel tool path, then I change say stepover. I had stock set to 0.2mm.

What MC does is adds a new set of mchininig geometry with stock set back to 1mm stock. The original setting 0.2 stock has no surfaces assigned.

 

[DavidB]

I have a good clean toolpath. Then I change the boundry from outside to center and MC corrupts the Machining Geom

[gcode]

Mastercam.com

reported and it's got a bug number with high priority.. no fix yet though

which makes the high speed surfacing toolpaths pretty much useless

If you can't trust stock settings to stick, you can't use them.

I nearly lost a very expensive part when avoidance with .080" stock changed itself to avoidance with .050" stock.

Had I not run verify again before posting, I'd have put a tool holder right into a wall

 

[DavidB]

Don't copy and paste them either they get corrupted.

How did this bug make it into 2019? I don't understand surely beta would have picked this up.

[pullo]

"beta" ?  Sounds  so ominous  and grandiose .

I reported into the teens of errors  and the cutoff date I think just came and  it was time to plop one out  , the biggest  work stoppers  repaired .  

The name 2019 implies that there was still time to work on it .... Anyways I'm glad 2019 is out as it is such an improvement  over 2018 in terms of overall stability.

And now for some proactivity :

What I suggest is you build into your post a warning of what your roughing parameters are . I get a heads up if roughing  stock is set to zero during posting .  There is a new function

for  accessing the numerous stock values  in the HSS toolpaths .  

 

Gracjan

 

 

[gcode]

Curt on the Mastercam forum reports that this will be fixed in the next update due out the end of August

[DavidB]

My posts are from In-house I cant edit them

[DavidB]

If you DO NOT hit the apply button and just click the Green tick the tool paths do not get corrupted.

Reply from QC was the fix will be at the end of August.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

Thanks for the Heads Up !!

2018 for now...

( Was using 19 for a week now)