Wow, I'm still not getting the email. I've checked my spam filter and nothing shows up at all. What is this thing that I should have in my control def?

I'm sorry, but I didn't seem to get that in my email. Can you send that to [email protected] Sorry & Thanks,

The picture in the previous post doensn't show up for me. Can you email that to me? Thanks,

I would expect it to be in seconds or minutes, and constantly varying from line to line, based off of how much distance it is from line to line and how far from the center of rotation on the 4th axis.

I deal occasionally with parts that need full simultaneous 4axis milling, and I know that inverse-time feedrates are the way to go. I know that the machine must be able to work with it. What I am wondering is how to enable it in Mastercam. When I go to the generic posts to enable the switch to output in inverse time, it doesn't put the feedrate code out the way I would expect it to. I try editing the control def for the machine to get it to output, but that doesn't get it either. What is involved in getting it to work? Is there extra code needed in the post?

You should try first enabling the 30 degree plane from the planes menu, then go back to planes & choose rotate. Use the dialog ot rotate the xyz vectors to match the way you want them, and then name & save that plane. Go back to your ops manager and select that new plane you created and regen. That should ouput B the way you want it.

Tell me about it man, ever since I got my new 64bit system, X2 crashes alot, always when I go to add dimensions when creating the layout sheet. I don't understand that, it ONLY crashes when I go to add dimensions. I've heard to try and download new drivers, but I've already got the latest one. I hope someone comes up with a fix for this one soon, this problem really aggravates the smack out of me

I'll tell you what I do, I usually draw the path I want the plunge to follow, then generate points along that path. Once I've got that, I create a surface finish project path, using the points method under projection type. Having to manually draw your plunge path is a little time consuming, but it lets you drive that tool right where you want it to go. Hope this helps

How can I turn off the annoying Swarf 4ax Deviation Box that pops up when regening a swarf 5ax path set to 4ax output? This dialog is displaying 0 errors on my toolpath which is fine, but I do not want to click OK 100+ times to simply regenerate a program which doesn't have any errors anyway. I've read through the help files about it and cannot find how to disable it. Does anyone know how to get rid of this thing?

That pointed me into the right direction. I went to Swarf 5ax Parameters and changed from infinite look ahead to look ahead 100. That really sped things up. Thanks

I am updating a version 9 program in Mcam X (not X2) and I am noticing that regenerating 5ax Swarf paths is taking an extremely long time. In version 9, it didn't take near this long. All I am doing is updating the tool number. When I am regenerating, the status shows "Tool Position xxxx of xxxx". Does anyone know how to speed this along, if there is a way?

It appears to me that to avoid this in the future (at least for me), when projecting 3D splines to a flat plane, avoid "simplify" and just leave it as 2D splines. In the toolpath parameter tab, make sure that filter is on, so you can avoid having a huge program

I see what happened now. I am programming a part that gets run on the lathe first. There is a slot profile on the side. When I projected this profile to a different level, and simplified, the geometry wasnt entirely clean. I just went and deleted that geometry, projected the splined geometry to the level again, but didn't simplify. That got it

I'm working on a program right now where when I was halfway through it, everytime I go to verify, I get the error "ZERO LENGTH ARC". The toolpath runs just fine and it post just fine. When I go to verify I have to click "OK" 17 times through 17 "ZERO LENGTH ARC" errors. How do I get rid of this?

I think you're right. I've got x2 installed, but am not using it yet until we upgrade the other 2 computers in the shop this weekend. Hopefully x2 will be fine on that.