I'm not sure exactly what fusion is looking for. Peter explained how to define your stock for verify but I think fusion is looking for a toolpath. Could you give us some more info please. thanks,

Actually you don't need to change G40, G41, and G42. They will work as is. I don't know if the centurian 4 controller supports the "auto comp" G45, G46, and G47. Talk to your Milltronics dealer, they would know. You will need your drill cycles modified or they won't work. I don't remember what changes need to be made to the drill cycles but I do know the drill cycles on the Centurian 4 need to be formatted differently good luck [ 09-24-2002, 10:02 AM: Message edited by: Roger ]

I have to agree a 2D swept is the way to go for one or two peices. If you are doing production work I would still use a 2D swept to rough it out with a .075 - .100 stepover. and finish with the corner rounding tool to prolong tool life and maintain the geometry of the radius. my 2 cents if everybody puts their 2 cents in pretty soon we'll be able to buy the cutter.

One thing on the centurian 4 controller the cutter comp that lucky 7 was talking about: G45 instead of G41 for cutter comp. left G46 instead of G42 for cutter comp. right G47 instead of G40 for cutter comp. off This refers to auto cutter comp left, right and off. Basically when turning your cutter comp on on a linear move it looks at the next move and places the cutter edge at the beginning of the next x y position instead of the cutter being tangent to the initial move and the second move. I probably didn't explain that very well but you don't need to worry about it on the centurian 4, I don't beleive it takes these codes like the centurian 5 and 6 controllers. Personally I always liked the centurian 5 and 6 controllers and the last five years the machines have become much better. anyway good luck and thanks Christian, your going out on a limb agreeing with me.

Like these guys said the cent 4 controller is very similar to fanuc code. The centurian 4 is a bit older controller and does do a few things differently. I would have your reseller start with the mpez post processor, the mpfan has a lot of stuff that the cent 4 won't support, and the things that will need some attention are the cutter comp and drill cycles. The drill cycles are very different. I used to run a centurian 4 controller where we had an old post, I never went through the trouble of creating a new post I would always just use the "run old" function. good luck

Currently if you want to verify toolpaths referencing a wcs other than top there are a few steps. first go into your wcs and hit all off. Next go into job setup and recreate your stock. Now go into verify's config window and pick true solid using a wireframe tool. You will see a 3D representation of your part, turbo is not an option in V9.0 sp1. hope this helps

Tony, I think you forgot to mention you have to punch out to use the restroom. and you have to supply your own end mills [ 09-12-2002, 05:20 PM: Message edited by: Roger ]

I had similar and worse problems using the video card you had on a previous computer. Setting the hardware acceleration to none helped a bit but still not good. I tried all these suggestions and more but was never happy. Good luck finding a driver for it. I beleive the company went out of biz or was bought out. I feel your pain, good luck.

Why do in a post what you can do in the software? The toolpath, next menu, transform will do as you ask. In V9 you can transform transformed operations.

Why whatever are you guys talking about. I'm sure you are the only ones to ever have this happen. I know it has never happened to me as far as you know.

What I suggest if this is something you will be doing frequently is creating a file that has the named views you will need and then importing that job setup. This will make it so you don't have to create your views for every job. Talk to your reseller about getting your post setup correctly. Once that is done your front plane will be your rotary axis zero. This allows you to look at your setup exactly the way it is in the machine and verify it exactly the way it is in the machine. There is a lot to this subject so you may want to look at some application specific training. good luck

in the verify setup choose tool description "as defined" and this should do it, providing you have a tapered end mill chosen as your tool.

Here is a link to Extreme DNC. You can call programs from your controller and wirefree dnc. http://www.ascendtec.com/

Wonderful, glad I could help.

With the solids option you can definately do with just Mastercam. In the Solids menu use the boolean remove function. If this is something that you are going to be doing on even a somewhat regular basis Moldplus can really automate the entire process of splitting cores and cavities.

I agree chris, no controller I know of will allow you to turn cutter comp on an arc move. Also the linear move to turn cutter comp on should contain some type of x,y motion instead of just a z move. Roger

Yasar, can you post the nc file you get and indicate the problem areas in it. When I post your toolpath out it looks quite good. I haven't confirmed the positions but it shows x and y moves where it needs to and rotary moves where it needs to. The only place I don't show a Y move is when the tool is in the straight portion of the swarf at the X+ end. I don't know if this would help but make sure you have the latest mp.dll from mastercams website. good luck

Is this plotter one of the older serial plotter? If not it sounds like you may have the win driver set to "N". Please supply more info on plotter and computer. Are you using a modem to connect to the internet?

Rory, have your reseller send you the "what's new in V9.doc". This has a very in depth list and breif explanation of most of the improvements. good luck [ 09-04-2002, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: Roger ]

Toolpath, next menu, translate: use toolplane positioning and if you have multiple operations and multiple tools pick by operation type, this will eliminate unnessesary tool changes, and in the lower right corner there is the work offset section set it so it increments to one starting with zero. on the translate page set it to one step in the Y and one step in the x and no distance between setups. This way you can set your work offsets at the machine and just indicate your stock or whatever your doing to pick up your G54 and G55. hope this helps I like to edit the z in the control [ 09-03-2002, 02:45 PM: Message edited by: Roger ]

Not to change the subject away from the vid card but short of making sure you have a good heat sink and fan on the AMD Athlons there is no reason to wait on a P4 to process my toolpaths. We have had many AMD Boxes with G Force cards go through here and no problems to speak of yet. Thanks everyone for the input

To start I am using a P4 1800, 768 megs of rambus memory with the G Force Ti. We have done some tests on processors and the AMD Athlon processors "crunch" toolpaths literally twice as fast as a comperable P4. Does anybody have a good reason to not use an AMD processor? Thanks, [ 09-03-2002, 09:29 AM: Message edited by: Roger ]

What do you have for a video card? Do you have the latest driver for your card? Are you posting out with a post that has been modified? Try posting out with any one of the standard posts and see if it still happens. I have gotten this error when I've modified a post incorrectly such as leaving a bracket open in a boolean operation. The more info you can give the better.

Instead of doing an import NCI save the toolpath to the library, with geometry, and then you can import the operation along with its geometry which will allow you edit whatever you would like. good luck

I've done this one myself. As long as it is a 45 degree chamfer this works. Use a 2D swept toolpath with whatever stepover you want. Define the tool correctly especially the flat at the tip. Take the cutter diameter - dead spot take this number and multiply it by .352. Take the product and punch it in as negative stock to leave. I don't know how the math works out on this but it does. I'm sure someone can explain it. good luck