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Tim,
Just for ha ha's do this;
window select a straight row of the chains and see if it works. That's even if it's only a half dozen of them.
If that works window the remaining geometry in rows.
If not I suggest emailing the file to someone or put in on the FTP site.
I'm not at work but I could try Wednesday.
If you do what John says go to options and choose
one way and point. Except it with the checkmark
Then window/ then select the word endpoint in the left field of your screen and the endpoint of the 1st chain.
You can do this in X2.
In version 9 I can't think of a way now but maybe someone will.
If it can't be done in 9 that is just one more reason why mastercam gets better with its new releases and why one should think of upgrading.
Welcome to the forum!
I see. I can also chage that in my machine definition or on just a toolpath operation that I import such as a face milling operation.
I like the results when I select no change when all the toolpath ops are selected.
Thank you as I'll need to give this a try when I can. The code looks good though.
Does anyone know if there is a machine definition setting that would bring the machine at X0, Y0 at the start of the NC program.
It's just for visualization when the program starts to run.
Or is this something that must be changed in the post?
So I must be looking for G0 X0 Y0
right after M140 MB MAX
Thank you in advance!
code:
TOOL CALL 5 Z S20000
210 M03
220 M40 ; VACUMM ON
230 M36
240 CYCL DEF 32.0 TOLERANCE
250 CYCL DEF 32.1 T0.002
260 M140 MB MAX
270 L X0.4827 Y-1.3171 FMAX
280 L Z0.25 FMAX
The machine is a Mikron high speed mill
Daniel,
I haven't used that path either. I also thank you for that explaination that seems simple now.
Strabe,
By the ways were your surfaces overlapping just a little for the flowline?
In wire we have a 4 axis machine and there is an upper and lower chain. So you need to sync by entity for the job to come out correctly.
The upper and lower chain need to start at the same corner so they are in sync with ea. other.
mcuser99,
Glad it has worked out for you in router.
That tolerance method for me in mill isn't the solution so I fooled around with it some.....
Did you ever try this way?...
In the chaining dialog box choose (start chain at point)
Then create a point where you would like the chain to start on each and every rectangle. In my case I selected my geometry and there were a lot of small radii (reason for me not messing with the chain tolerance). Actually I picked area and then just deleted the outer chain selection afterwords.
The result was it did not pick the points as geometry and all the chains started where I wanted them to. This way my lead in and lead out did not interfere with any geometry.
So I have learned something from your post by messing with some chain settings that should save me some time in the future!
Have a great Friday!
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