Matt is correct:do not scale.

And against lying tool diameter is if you use 5axis.If only 3D and no rotating electrode, then

you can use lyi tool diameter and corner radius.

And use bullnose endmills when possible.

No I'm not using somekind of original Heidenhain post.Just trying to modify "Generic Fanuc 5X Mill.pst" for 3+2 axis.

Josh, is your 3+2 post working correctly if using

bottom WCS and some other toolplane?

"frc_cinit" is 1.

But there is no toolchange with new operation.

What else will switch on B0°C0°?

Hello,

what setting in "Generic Fanuc 5X Mill.pst" must be changed to get C-axis rotate back to C0°?

First operation has B-90° C180° and next should be B0°C0°.But instead it uses fastest way by rotating toolplane C180°.

Code right now:

8 L B-90. C180. F5000

9 CYCL DEF 19.0 WORKING PLANE

10 CYCL DEF 19.1 B-90. C180.

11 L X-5. Y+10. FMAX

12 L Z+100. FMAX

13 L Z+10. FMAX

14 L Y-10. Z+10. F4333.4

15 L Z+100. FMAX

16 L Z+490 FMAX M91

17 L B0. C180. F5000

18 CYCL DEF 19.0 WORKING PLANE

19 CYCL DEF 19.1 B0. C180.

20 L X+28.386 Y+25. Z+100. FMAX

Code should like:

18 CYCL DEF 19.0 WORKING PLANE

19 CYCL DEF 19.1 B0. C0.

20 L X-28.386 Y-25. Z+100. FMAX

Single Syncmaster 244T at 1920x1600

Hei,

let me first thank Günther for outstanding job giving us X+.

But I miss X+ possibility to renumber by groups and thats why I'm not using renumber/rename in X3.

Or is it possible?

By cheating tool diameter you can get long if you only use 3 axis milling .With 5 axis you can't but have to use negative stock.We try to avoid ballmills as much as possible.They have zero cutting speed and two cutting edges at center only,you know.And that center wears out very quickly.Every trode has box at the bottom for center verification and for length measuring.Also with two chamfers so EDM guy doesn't machine trode rotated wrong position.

chip,

Please don't use scale for trodes because you get different spark gaps.

Search this forum for proper way.

Roger,

Thats not correct approach to compensate spark gap.You have to lie cutter diameter minus 2GAPS and cutter corner radius minus 1GAP

Arrow 500(A2100) from year 96 is best uptime machine I've seen.Ok,it was mostly trodes but still.Now doing steel it needs some calibrating.

Have anybody tried subject?How can you create overlapping drilling points for complete pocket?

Does this feature exist in Mastercam?Or in some other CAM?

Regards,

Henry

Using Q for feedrate is something I want to do too.But how do you separate plunging feedrate and cutting feedrate in postprocessor?

I'm already using toolnumber and spindlespeed values through Q.

Regards,

Henry

We evaluated CoCreate for plastic injection mold design and it didn't qualify.It had problems with coincident tolerance with imported models and isn't easy to learn.

Regards,

Henry

Roger,

Many many great thanks.This is what can called as service.

Now if I Only could tweak it little more to not output

M112 T-0.999 with contour toolpath

or maybe we will disallow it from it.

Regards,

Henry

Roger,

Seems that prmcode 10204 is not reflecting correct cut tolerance.Just try to postprocess at least two operations with different cut tolerances and you'll notice that prmcode 10204 in NCI only holds tolerance from first operation.

Please let us know if you have it same way.

Roger,

Great thanks.Still,next combination worked better:

1501. Insert parameter information in the ascii NCI? y

1502. Write operation information to binary file (.ops)? n

I almost coded what needed and will continue up to the end.

Regards,

Henry

Hello!

Are postprocessor writing instructions only on separate CD which has to order from dealer?If so,then in this case it'll take too long.

Does anyone know what variable will return toolpath calculation tolerance?And what are Surface Finish toolpaths operation codes(Parallel,Contour,Scallop,Leftover)?Point is,we want our VMC to use same tolerance as MC.

Greetings to all,

Henry

Wanted to add something about 9/11 but my english vocabulary dryed out.

Glenn,

Great thanks.Even 0.003mm tolerance worked.

How did you know this?

Hello!

You can check out file at www.virotools.eeCONTOURBUG_V9SP1.MC9

From it you can see that only mill Diam0.495mm

is making good toolpath.I can make toolpath with other tools too but first I'll have to save it by backplotting.Question is:should MC-code be changed that first toolpath gets filtered if it contains splines and then make offset by tool radius?Wouldn't it be better solution for all toolpaths containing splines?

I hope I'm making myself clear.

Yep,Mikron VCP600 with 42.000rpm and Heidenhain 430.What's up?

Have you checked Depth limits?

My experience with AGIE is that producing NC code for it can be tricky,but machine itself is reliable.You should try to program both machines before deciding.

1.How about toolholder and tapered tool calculations in surface toolpaths?

2.Surface finish parallel allow only positive Z moves?

James,

Mastercam's competitor,Alphacam and specially Sandy Livingstone declared in alt.machines.cnc that it is possible.I'm not getting too much into this since my English isn't that good.Someone should write an illustrated story what's possible and what's not.

Rekd,scaling is no option for spark gap.

1.If you use negative stock,then use only ball endmills or bull mill with corner radius atleast same as spark gap.

2.Stock size zero,but subtract 2gaps sizes from endmill diameter and gap from radius.Only drawback is that on 45° degree walls you get slight distortion,if you use flat endmills.