Thank you for all the help. I just got it working now I have to play with it and figure it all out. Thanks again.

The link on that web page for X4 is only in German. It says to download the language.dll to the c-hooks folder as well. Will this translate it so I can use it or do I need to download the english version somewhere else?

LA CAMmer, can you give me a little more information on the "setup sheet and tool list from X+" that you refer to. Excuse my ignorance, but what is X+?

Those of you who machine electrodes; how do you get the information for the burn like location and spark gap to the operator? I only have X4 with surfaces. What we do here is scribe the info on the trode, but it seems to me there is room for error. Thanks in advance.

I figured it out, thanks anyway.

I'm running the HST pencil toolpath and at the top of each cut, well most cuts the machine slows way down. Im guessing to probably 5 ipm or less. I think its just during the entry and exit arc moves. This is on an okada. Any ideas?

As one example, I have multiple electrodes under my "okada" machine group and they have a wcs on each one. I also have in this particular case, a Roeders machine group and it has multiple cavity blocks with a wcs on each one of them. I don't post the whole machine group as one toolpath. Most of the time I post the entire toolpath group.

The bad part is that I have multiple wcs's setup under each machine group. And sometimes it doesn't switch back to the one I want to use. What a pain the buttocks this is. Why would "they" set mastercam up this way. In my opinion it sucks!!!

Well we used copper impregnated last time but we didn't use negative polarity. Our carbon supplier sent us some different electrode material to try. Hopefull that will work. Some of the detail on this stuff is pretty fine and has a lot of .005 radii. Thanks for all the info. everyone. I appreciate it.

Rich, I checked each machine group and the default construction plane is set to none.

It's changing the wcs as well as reverting back to the view that was on the screen the last time that machine group was "active". I've tried all of the above recomendations and it still does it. This is driving me nuts.

Jay Kramer, I have my mastercam setup the way you suggested. I tried it a while ago and I didn't have the issue with it snapping to a differen't view after rotating but I still have the issue with it changing the graphics view when changing machine groups. I think its reverting back to last view it was at when that machine group was open. Does that make any sense?

Thanks shazam/TPP , I appreciate the info.

Not really sure how to help then, sorry.

I'm assuming that you already know about the place where you select the tool comp to use tip or center. If not, that's what I would try first.

We made some cavities out of berilium copper a few months ago and I made the electrodes out of copper impregnated graphite. The burn time was rediculous and we had to have 7 electrodes. Anyone have any ideas how to speed things up. I think I'll try changing from .003 overburn to .005 for one thats got to help, but I need more help. TIA

Im sick and tired of the graphics view changing whenever I change my machine group. Is there a way to keep this from happening? I would rather have it to where I change the view myself. On another note; my graphics view snaps to a differen't view about half of the time when I use dynamic rotate. Do you think this is a graphics card issue?

I deleted the *'s and that took care of the extra z and feed outputs. I think that'll do me for now, but I'm not sure till I try it at the machine. Just in case though, Here is my pcanceldc$ section; pcanceldc$ #Cancel canned drill cycle result = newfs (three, zinc) z$ = initht$ if cuttype = one, prv_zia = initht$ + (rotdia$/two) else, prv_zia = initht$ pxyzcout !zabs, !zinc prv_gcode$ = zero pcan pcan1, pbld, n$, "G00", "G80", *initht$, strcantext, e$ pcan2 Here's the ppeck_2 section; ppeck_2$ #Canned Peck Drill Cycle pdrill_2$

here's the section in my post for peck drilling, ppeck$ #Canned Peck Drill Cycle pdrlcommonb if ddwell > 0, pbld, n$, ddwell, e$ if drillref = 0, [ pbld, n$, "G00", pxout, pyout, e$ pbld, n$, *refht$, e$ ] pcan1, pbld, n$, *sgdrill, pxout, pyout, pzout, pcout, *peck1$, *peck2$, *feed, strcantext, e$ pcom_movea

Brian, I can't find the "initioal height" you are refering to, to try it. John, I edited the post the way you suggested and did manage to get it to stop outputting all of the x's and y's, but now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind leaving those in. What I would really like to remove is all of the redundent z info as well as the redundent feedrate info. That way the operator just has one line to edit if he wants to change the amount of peck or feed. I don't know why I'm having this trouble, all I did was upgrade to X4. Thanks for the help.

This is a mphurco-cct.pst This is what I'm getting; G54 G70 G75 G90 G94 G0 T1 M6 G0 G90 X7.5313 Y-5.0938 S1800 M3 Z2. M8 G00 X7.5313 Y-5.0938 Z.1 G83 X7.5313 Y-5.0938 Z.25 Z.125 Z.025 F3. G00 G80 Z2. G00 X7.9688 Y-5.0938 Z.1 G83 X7.9688 Y-5.0938 Z.25 Z.125 Z.025 F3. G00 G80 Z2. G00 X7.9688 Y-1.4063 Z.1 G83 X7.9688 Y-1.4063 Z.25 Z.125 Z.025 F3. G00 G80 Z2. G00 X7.5313 Y-1.4063 Z.1 And this is what I want; G54 G70 G75 G90 G94 G0 T1 M6 G0 G90 X7.5313 Y-5.0938 S1800 M3 Z2. M8 G00 X7.5313 Y-5.0938 Z.1 G83 X7.5313 Y-5.0938 Z.25 Z.125 Z.025 F3. X7.9688 Y-5.0938 X7.9688 Y-1.4063 X7.5313 Y-1.4063 It's putting in a bunch of redundent code. How do I edit the post so it doesn't?

No, but I'll tell you this much, I deleted that tool out of the tool list in the program and then went into the tool manager and changed that tool to coolant off and then brought it back into the tool list in the program, regened the program, and posted it and now it's fine. I've never seen this before.

I'm getting an M8 in my nc code even though it isn't turned on in the tool or the program. How do I get it to stop outputting the M8? I'm running MX4 It's on a roeders, the post processor is mproeder_3.pst

Ranger Dan, I recieved your email and whenever I backplot the programs the first goes to -.5025 and second one goes to -1.3987. Is that what you were getting or did yours go to the correct depth?

I'm just fat, dumb and need help. oh, I'm also short. lol