Do you know how to build a custom holder then? and will it make the overall come out right?

we have one machine that needs the build up of tool, holder, and knuckle. Machine does not use tip control!

I made a tool in the mcam file itself with the holder and it post fine.

when I select a tool I created in the tool manager (and use tool DB) it is not adding the extension length I added in.

I need the full buildup of the holder to post correctly.

any help would be appreciated, Thanks

Right click in your ops manager, go down to import, go through the directory to the program you want to import from and select them and hit ok should be good to go.

We are just getting strange outcomes with it, I am still not convinced it is tuned right.

I feel like a total bone head been away from the machines to long, JParis please do not laugh at me. I have some look ahead questions I remember years ago you explained it very well and I have forgotten alot. One question I have is does nanno smoothing work through 5 axis contouring?

lets say you have a 2 foot diameter cylinder lying in the X axis I am cutting on the back side of the cylinder I want to rapid to the front of the cylinder and to a new A position on the way. I get G1 segment code but I would like to have a G3 move from an A negative to an A positive.

I know I may not have described very clear so here is another try

Lets say it is a horizontal WCS top I position the tool to the center of the tombstone @ BO and a Z12.o

now I don't move the tool but just rotate the B to B90. I want to do the same with the 5 axis it would be an X Z move with a J I think and an A start and end position.

Thanks ahead of time

thank you sir

Help

Thanks Guys!! your AWSOME

where is that exactly?

Help status bar on bottom of screen went away cant get it back

Are you using the mastercam nesting, or a add in nesting feature?

thanks Mick I will get it sent.

start with one machine group create a tool path, make a new machine group and copy that tool path to the new machine group. open up the parameters in that group and look at your tool. it turns holder length to ZERO, if you copy from an operation group to another operation group it is ok!

That is really cool, the people down there are great and enthusiastic I enjoyed it there very much. Of course it didnt hurt that it was in the 70's the while time.

Jeremy I was just over in your neck of the woods, Charleston for a few weeks training our new operators there.

Colin I will tell everyone Hi. I wish I was still working with you!!!

Brendan I tried that first but couldnt get it to work.

JParis good to hear from you it has been along time since I have been on here I hope all is going well for you!!

Del good to hear from you to !!!

Now all we need is CNC Apps guy, Tim Johnson, Rickster and so many others I havent talked to forever!!

Thanks Colin, here is one for you Ken didnt want to regedit so I put my config and mtb in another folder so it couldnt find it. brought X6 back up it gives you the warning cant find config then it defaults and must write the registry because it came back. then I put my config and mtb back in and it works.

oh I guess I should mention it is X6

How do you get the dang auto cursor ribbon bar back?

We just recieved new computer refresh, still running xp but the new graphics card is a nvidia quatro fx 4000 I am having some graphic selection issues in mastercam I was wondering if anyone is using this card and if you have changed some settings.

it was under help / whats new / refine

Thanks for the help

I had to call Collin

I forgot to say I was on X4

how do you get back to the old style filtering box?

It was the tool description in program (3/4" EM) the (") honks up the control eben though it is in brackets