Mpmaster X2 with Machine Simulation output support - Metric Mpmaster X2 with Machine Simulation output support - Inch

Mastercam cancels drill cycles between toolplanes. If you don't want a cancel, you need to use Rotary Substitution. If you want to program easily and have compact code - do what John said with a rotary Transform toolpath, and use subprograms.

I'd love for the post to be able to deliver the root install path easily as well.

Hey - be nice. Jon may very well be a legit Mastercam user, he's just not electing to prove that to me.

gcode - no turning supported yet, but apparently in the works. More of a tool issue than anything else I suppose, since you could make the machine move regardless... Yeah, sorry Greg. Canada legalized metric in 1871. They pushed on it several times in the 70's, the biggest being a move to SI in 1973. Metalworking is sort of the last bastion of imperial units here. So really, my apologies, my metric brother. Our sister company CAP Technologies is going to build machines defs. I'm supporting the post side of things. I'll see about a metric set of the vert and horiz sample machines.

So that was fun to have Jon drop by over the holidays. Jon hasn't provided any proof to me that he's a licensed Mastercam user in good standing, which of course we knew, but we're nice people here, so we followed the standard challenge procedure, and associated waiting period. I'm sure that we'll be accused of running from a challenge, and of course that's not it at all. And now back to our regularly scheduled agenda of helping each other in this thriving community, and providing constructive criticism to CNC Software to help make Mastercam an even better product. [ 01-04-2007, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: Dave Thomson ]

On cadcam's FTP: Mpmaster X2 with Machine Simulation output support 3ax, 4ax_vert, and 4ax_horiz variations to play with. All code can be cut and pasted to other mpmaster-based posts - search for #machsim Post can live in your regular post directory and post G-Code, or when placed in the moduleworksmachsim structure will automatically dump out the .sim file format. You need to install Machsim from the link higher up in this thread.

Mpmaster with machsim support info here: http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=024082#000009

No response from Jon on an email challenge for SIM number, yet his account shows activity, so he's still reading. Jon - check your email.

Firefox Bullines would say the same.

This issue is only evidenced in a multiple drive situation where the html file is on one drive letter, and the images are on another.

Rakesh - your current dealer (In-House) should also be able to assist with post development, even if you posts were originally written by Cad Wire.

It's my belief that in IE7, when you host your images on C:, and you have the HTML file on another drive, the pictures get treated like images displayed on an untrusted foreign domain. If you take your HTML and copy it to C:, do they show? So it's an IE7 thing. Firefox doesn't handle it that way (it works). We've gone through the IE7 settings and can't find anything to change. So, let's verify if the theory is right, then focus our attention on figuring out how to hack IE7 into displaying the images.

I'm going to just move the topic.

Level 1 through Level 3 support toolplanes, so you can pick a toolplane and apply any toolpath available in your level of the software. The Multi-Axis package handles simultaneous.

Once horizontal 4-Axis is tested and we have a machine set up, we're going release a version of mpmaster with the sim file generation for machsim. Probably in the new year. It will support 3-Axis, and 4-Axis vert about X or Y, and horiz about Y.

Also check to ensure that the WCS is Top, and that toolplanes are used for the toolplanes. Setting the WCS makes that plane the TOP, so typically when you use the WCS to set the plane, you get no rotary calcs.

This should be addressed in the X2 Mpmaster post. Which 'untouched' one are you using?

result = force(ipr_type,ipr_type)

Did you pay your G54 tax? [check your other message thread]

Use misc values, mi9 to lock onto the first WCS. Mastercam likes to auto-increment the workofs variable for each new toolplane.

Yeah, the intent is to set it in the Control Def I guess: Control Def, Tool, "Enable staged tool routines" If you check out the comment right about stagetool in the post code: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Common User-defined Variable Initializations (not switches!) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------

code: sfilename2 "" # Filename sextdoc .doc ppost$ sfilename2 = spathnc$ + snamenc$ + sextdoc result = 1 result = fexist (sfilename2) if result = 1, result = remove(sfilename2)

Storky has been banned from the forum. Just kidding.

you need to break the links, and save images in word, under Edit, Links