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Harold, the way I do it is to move the geometry to where I want it, ie..centered on XY axis, then I set my tool/cplane to bottom or front or topside or rightside, when a procedure is created it will be created on that plane. You can then verify one or all of the different procedures for the different sides at the same time. You can also manually change the planes of a procedure in the planes dialog of the "toolpath parameters" page
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1)there is a level mask feature under the "all" and "only" selection buttons. 2)there is a chook called all result. do a search and you can find it and download that. Once you download it. you can add the button to your right mouse button under settings/customize
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thanks, Craig. Just turned hyperthreading off and I'm anxious to see the results.
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quote: Do you have a true Dual Core CPU or one with Hyperthreading? Cause if you have Hyperthreading you can usually turn it off in the bios. Are you saying that hyperthreading is bad for mastercam? because I have a dual with hyperthreading that makes it look like I have 4 processors. Does it make a difference if hyperthreading is on or off?
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nevermind, just did a search and found out it's been going on for a long time. have to answer my own post because we're all busy not posting in sticky's
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x-mr1 I'm trying to edit common parameters on several drill paths. I want to change the Retract from .100 to -.500. I go to edit common parameters toggle the check box change the field to -.500 hit apply and the green check mark and it's not changing anything. Am I missing something?
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Default for Assign T#'s Sequentially
beej replied to Rich Taft from CNC Software's topic in Industrial Forum
ohhh. I gotcha. -
Default for Assign T#'s Sequentially
beej replied to Rich Taft from CNC Software's topic in Industrial Forum
I'm not sure what you guys mean? there is a toggle to switch on/off tools numbered sequentially. -
That is what Horizontal Area is for. But if your trying to keep from banging into vertical corners smoothing will help. If your talking about banging into floor fillets, you can add a different stock amount to the wall than your using on the floor. that might help.
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I love these high speed machining paths. and holder gouge protection is awesome. I'm thinking the next logical step would be to be able to automatically add a 3" long cutter where a 2" long cutter wouldn't go.
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From what your describing I think that you want to use the "smoothing parameters" to keep your tool from banging into the corners. Toolpath fillet, from what I've read is for putting floor fillets where there are sharp corners
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can we make drilling default to plunge rate instead of feed rate?
beej replied to beej's topic in Industrial Forum
Ok but since they give us a "plunge rate field" in the tool library on drills and since the situation does occur once in a while why not make the default feedrate the plunge rate? then we would NEVER need to edit them. -
X-MR1 does anyone know how to make drll cycles use the plunge rate instead of the feed rate. We have some inserted endmills that we drill with occasionally and the plunge is considerably less than the feedrate. Wouldn't it make more sense to have this as a default?
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My sales reps usually give us catalogs to order our cutters from and they almost always have a page where that information exists. If they don't there is a technical support phone number on the catalog where you can talk, sometimes right to a tool engineer himself and he will help you. What kind of cutters are you using.
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I might be missing something here, but you don't have to do that in the post. You can renumber the tools through the tool path manager and it will handle it exactly like you described. We program this way also.
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there is a setting in your control definition to warn you if you've used duplicate tool numbers
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Most excellant! Thank you, Gunther
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I've used it and it's working fine. 10,000 ipm!! that's a plus 5 pucker factor
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X+ Setupsheet doesn't pick up the tool descriptions in the new Highspeed Machining paths.
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These highspeed machining paths are great!! I have been waiting for a path like core roughing since switching back to mastercam 3 years ago. Good stuff. Thanks guys. I'm happy till I get used to it and starting wanting more
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I didn't know the let bronco's fans take solid modeling classes??!?
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MR1???
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There are times when threads need to be modeled up. Lots of Plastic injection parts and die cast parts use threads that have to be cut right into the partshape. Picture a plastic gas can or little tikes table with screw on legs, pepsi bottles and such. It's important for a modeling software to be able model a thread. these are often cut with small ballnose cutters.
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I'll bet that's it!! I leave my computer processing or verifying a lot at night and My computer is starting to get a little dated. I know I'm maxing it out lot's of times. I have been recalling my toolbar state too. that does work well. thanks. And welcome Span it's nice to see new members jump right in there and lend support. thanks
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interesting...I don't use a real screensaver or backup program but I do use a blankscreen for screensaver and Norton utilities (one button checkup)a couple times a week at night to scan and clean up garbage.