Are you using a rotary axis, or do you just want to rotated the toolpath 45 degrees? If you're using a rotary axis and want to reposition your part then use toolplane. if the part is not being rotated and you want to move the toolpath then use coordinate.

sounds to me like you need it set to coordinate, not toolplane

our post doesn't do g54 when we open a v9 file in X. tracked it down to the misc values button in the toolpaths. normally it is checked to defualt to post settings but when i bring in V9 files they are set to not output g54's

the surface finish contour might need a tighter total tolerance. the 2d contour might need to turn on the filter and set a tight tolerance if it is drawn as splines

if you select what you want to do then select your entities you need to hit the icon that looks like a green ball.

Go into your operations manager, click on the parameters of one of your toolpaths. on the last page of a surfacing toolpath (for "surface finish parallel" it would be the "finish parallel parameters" tab) there is a total tolerance button. click on that. if the filter is on you can check or uncheck create arcs in the different planes.

in surfacing toolpaths, click on the total tolerance button. the filter settings are in there.

what kind of toolpaths? 3-d or 2-d? i'm pretty much out of ideas, but maybe it's a filter setting. k is the z center point of an arc. if you have the filter on in the toolpath, try turning it off or unchecking create arcs in XZ and YZ.

Maybe the file using the v8 post instead of the updated one. when you post make sure it's grabbing the right post.

what if you just regenerate all your toolpaths without making any changes in them?

I think you have to rechain the whole thing, but it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.

Do you have the rotary axis button checked in the original toolpath?

I used to get invalid arc errors in backplot. i made the tolerances slightly looser in config. the invalid arc never caused me a bad part if i just ignored it though.

Ok, the feedrate 0 happens when "one way" filering is checked in the total tolerance. I don't know why it was checked. Actually i don't even know what it does for sure but i know we normally don't have it checked.

feed calculation is set "from tool". The really strange thing is, i can't get this post a f0 again. Earlier i had two different computers posting it, now I can't get either on to. Must be a Friday case of not thinking clearly. Thanks for the response Roger.

we are getting F0's in a rough parellel and finish parellel path on G3 lines in the xz plane. The tool has all feed rates filled in, feed, plunge and retract. if i turn the filter off the program is good, but too long. Any ideas why this would be happening?

isn't there a box in the cut depths to comp to center or tip of the tool?

for programming purposes you have to save a new view when you set the origin, not update the current view. I sometimes end up with Top1, Top2, etc. for different origins.

SYNC Mode and it doesn't appear to like your WCS. i translated the part so i could use top view as the WCS and set the SYNC to Entity like Qmp said and it seemed to work.

v9 wouldn't do it either. there was a chook, stl to surfaces but it would die about half way thru. the STL models we machine are probably between 10,000 and 50,000 triangles. i'm sure the stl chook worked for simple/normal stuff though.

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We love our hermle c600u. put your part in, probe it, laser the tool and hit go. you don't have to worry about where your axis rotation points are, it figures all that out for you. The guys at Hermle in Wisconsin are top notch too.

is your config file set to "read only"? and do you have admin rights?

We do surface machining of STL files. It's a pain the ars but doable. First we position the STL file using XFORM STL. You can create a 3d bounding box of the model in XFORM STL. You can use surfacing toolpaths to cut the STL. Instead of selecting Drive Surfaces you select CAD File. I use surface finish contour to create a toolpaht around the outside of the part, backplot that path and save it as geometry. This creates my boundary i use on the rest of my toolpaths. i then rough and finish the model using various surface toolpaths. The STL model does not stay on the screen after you leave the STL menu. You can shade the model when you in the STL menu. Agian it is a total pain doing this, but we haven't been given much choice here.

Lars, Yes, it does now do this on an old file. I got to looking and all of my tolerances are set at .0001mm which is ridiculus. Apperently when fixing the control defs the tolerances went back to defualts. Thanks,