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  1. I took a look at this file, and I don't think you're going to have success the way you've defined the faces and such. The way this toolpath works is to figure out a sharp edge from what you give it. Unfortunately, with just these two faces, there's more questions than answers Think of this as if you had made a model with just those two surfaces (create surfaces from solid, for example). This is what you're feeding the algorithm: Eww. A better way to go about it is to just select the entire model. I wasn't sure which toolpath you were dealing with, so I just chose the last one, #20. I unselected your two faces and just selected the whole model which gave me this: It looked like you were really just trying to trace the slot edges, so I chose those as my "User defined" edges: I also set it to 3 axis, because I believe that's what you were gunning for? As a side note, there were lots of improvements to Deburr in 2019 Update 3, so I'd encourage you to use that if it's available. There were heaps more in 2020, so that'll be the choice once it's in public beta. Here's 2020, all I did was open the file and regen Op #20: Hope this helps! sleeve2 - update.emcam
    3 points
  2. thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread looking foreward to learning a lot from the sample files and information posted .
    1 point
  3. It won't be straight forward. You can add a variable #546 N100 G50V-#531 G1Y-30.988F1000. G3Y-30.988Z[14.986+#524-#546]R[#524-#546] G1Y-[30.988+4.] G0Z[14.986-#524+#546] then call your sub with different #546 values like this #546=0.1(SUREP.) G0X#814+2.5Y-[#545+4.]Z[14.986-#524+#546]T07 G0X-#529 G19 M98H100L#527 #546=0.(FINISH) G0Y-[#545+4.]Z[14.986-#524+#546] M98H100 G50V#528 G0Y-[#545+4.]Z[14.986-#524] If you want to implementit in one and only sub i guess you will need to count pass and test to add your finish pass after last pass.
    1 point
  4. Been doing that for a long time and it does an excellent job.
    1 point
  5. you have this option when saving a solid model as an STL and you can save a stock model as a pmesh from the tool path manager
    1 point
  6. Hi, Here is a sample file showing (i guess) Ron's method + a 4axis deburring Morph toolpath deburring-eMcam.mcam
    1 point
  7. Well no. The process I developed years ago was the make a surface model and chamfer the surface model. I would then offset the chamfers the radius of the tool. I would then use curve flowline to create a perfect center line to drive the ball endmill I was using for the chamfer. Then I would use 3D contour no comp, but then in the depth set a minus value the radius of the tool. Now I have driven the chamfer toolpath to the exact edge I need. Where it is really slick is where a chamfer fades off into a part into nothing. People are always blown away you can deburr down to nothing and get a good toolpath. It is all the deburr toolpath is doing. It is talking all that work and doing it for you when it works. When it doesn't then you have to just math and geometry to do it for it. Other way is to surface machine it.
    1 point
  8. Noted and I will make sure I change my tone so it is not demanding. Just trying to be helpful to others and sorry my passion for this profession has rubbed you the wrong way. You have a good weekend.
    1 point
  9. The best way to do this is leave your stock model where it is and use a new WCS for the next group of toolpaths. This will maintain associativity to the operations that created the stock . If you don't want to do that, you can save it as an STL file, use Transform for move it as required, then make a new stock model with the translated stl file. You will lose associativity if you go that route though
    1 point
  10. I draw a circle at origin, a line from the origin to the 0° quadrant of the circle, and a line from the origin extending through the 90° quadrant of the circle. That way no matter how it gets translated or rotated I always know to pick the short line for X and the long line for Y when creating the new WCS from geometry.
    1 point
  11. Machine Simulation inside Mastercam can be hooked up to a 5 Axis Post. When you do this, you can get simulation that matches your NC Code output. By default, when you simulate NCI data only, then it is true you can have crashes.
    0 points

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