Okuma uses a different interpretation of Gcode from Fanuc. Personally I've always hated the way they setup their machines. That being said I have run and written posts for them. This will get you started: Okuma uses G15 H## for its work offsets, G56 H## for its tool length offsets, and G41/42 D## for its diameter cutter comp. The Machine Home command is G30 X,Y,Z, BUT!! Z 0.0 is with the gage line of the spindle 4.0" (or something like that) off of the machine table. When you send the spindle to machine home it plunges toward the table in Z. Most programmers that I know use a retract of G30 Z30.0 (or something like that). BE CAREFUL!! As far as setting offsets are concerned, I'm familiar with the older style of machine control. You will want to get some help from the Okuma guru's in here. The way we used to do it was to jog the machine to the Z offset location, go to the machine coordinates display page, write the number down and then enter it in the tool offsets page. Are you programming for this machine or just running it? HTH, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

+1 on thanking the gurus at CNC Software. Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Nice Rick! That will be usefull for all sorts of things... Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

I'll be on the road down to California for some VERICUT training. I'll be mobile with my laptop, so I could probably do a conversion for you on Monday. Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Hi Lou, They might get a little miffed about putting it on the ftp. You could always email it to me if you would like me to convert something as a test. [email protected] Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Now I feel pretty good considering: Gcode Senior Member Member # 192 192??? Thats awesome.....

I would not use the windows clipboard to transfer geometry between levels. To move or copy geometry do this: Select the entities that you want to move or copy, Right-click on the word "level" in Mastercam's status bar on the bottom of the screen. When you right-click Mastercam will open the Change Levels dialog box and let you select the new level and gives you the option to copy or move entities. HTH, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

I really don't care for the analyze chain method. I find that it will ignore branch points if there are multiple entities. That is why I use the Contour chaining dialog box. I think its a better option. JM2C Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Hi John, I use several tools to check for problems. Right off the bat I use Delete - Duplicates. Then I used the "FindOverlap.dll" chook to check for overlapping entities. The final tool that I use to check the continuity of a chain is the contour toolpath. With the chaining dialog box in the contour toolpath it is very easy to check for problems. Just click near the endpoint of the first entity in your chain. Mastercam should be able to select the entire chain. If it chained correctly your chain should be highlighted in yellow and you should only see one green arrow at the beginning and one red arrow at the end (if the chain is open). If there is a pause in the chaining and the prompt says "Branch point reached", you know you have a problem with the geometry. Then I just zoom in and fix it. Sometimes I will also use the "Screen Statistics" function to do an entity count. Then I compare what it says "10 lines, 8 arcs, 2 splines, ect." to the number of entities that I should have. HTH, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Hmmm... It must be a firewall issue. Thats the Boeing way Thanks, Colin Gilchrist

John, It works fine on level #2 for the custom profile and looks good in backplot here. You cannot have any other geometry on the level that your tool profile is on. In my fixed mastercam file the tool profile has 22 entities. ??? Colin

Hey Gcode, I couldn't get my fixed file to upload to the FTP site. Am I missing something? Thanks, Colin Gilchrist Boeing

Bottom Line: Don't run multiple sessions of Mastercam X at once. Problem solved. If you want the ability to run multiple sessions, kindly send a request to [email protected] and ask them to fix it. Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Hi John, You've got mail. I fixed the problems with your geometry. You had overlapping lines, arcs that were not tangent to other lines, extra lines that were off in X,Y by a tiny bit (<.0001). All of these problems were keeping the tool profile from coming up correctly. I think I found like 7-10 different problems. Most of the problems occured at the fillets between lines. After I cleaned up the Geometry the tool profile looks good. HTH, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Several things. The .ini file that has the IP address of your NetHASP might need to be updated. The NetHASP server might be down. Go to the Windows Start menu and look in Programs. Find the Mastercam X folder and run the Nhasp X utility. Press "Read" on the dialog box and you should be able to see how many licenses are available on the server. If you don't get anything, the server might be down or need to be restarted. HTH, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Hi Mike, I am assuming that you want to create wireframe geometry on the solid. Go to: Create - Curve - All edges. In the "Select a surface" menu choose the Solids option. Set the toggle switches to "Faces N" "Solids Y" and pick your solid. Press Done, Done, Do it. This will generate wireframe geometry on your solid. I highly recommend you also do the following steps to "clean up" the wireframe that you generated. Modify - Convert to Arcs This command takes all of the linear splines and circular splines and converts them into actual lines and arcs based on the tolerance you give the system (I recommend .0005). After you convert the linear/circular splines do this: Delete - Duplicate - Entities This will help to further clean up your wireframe. Hope that helps, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site P.S. I had to look up the X command in the Version 9 to X functions PDF. Its been so long since I used V9 that I forgot the Modify - Convert to Arcs command

Hi Guys, Ignore the information about the tool profile being drawn at 1". Just draw half of the tool profile to scale. Ignore the centerline, you don't need it. In the custom tool definition dialog box, input the acutal diameter of the tool. In the graphic of the tool you should see a dashed yellow line that represents the comp diameter and it should line up with the edge of your tool. HTH, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

A "sign in sheet" will not give us what we want. It is not precise or reliable. Plus it adds more work for our programmers. Then someone (most likely me) would have to filter that unreliable data. We need a software solution that runs silently and generates some sort of time incremented log file, in a data format that is easy to export. Thanks for your responses guys, but I'm going to contact CNC software directly on this one. Looks like its going to be a custom piece of software. Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Sure thing Rick. -Colin

How about this: code: .Selection.Font.Bold=False .Selection.InsertDateTime "M/D/YY", False, False, wdEnglishUS, wdCalendarWestern 'get the date .Selection.TypeText vbNewLine

Hi Rick, Try posting this question in the Developers forum. The Coding gurus will be able to help you with this one. Thanks, Colin

Hi Lou, If you put your file on the FTP I can try it with the Moldplus Catia converter and see if its any better. Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Are you running the "Mastercam" Catia converter or the converter from Moldplus? The Moldplus Catia reader seems to do a much better job with V4 models. HTH, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company

Hi Guys, Thanks for the responses, but we need to see the Min/Max usage for the different modules over a 24 hour period (minimum). It would be really nice if we could generate a weekly report. Checking the NetHASP usage "right now" doesn't tell me what the peak usage is during the day. We need to purchase additional seats of Mastercam and there is some debate about purchasing additional 5 axis licenses. We don't want to spend money for more Multiaxis modules if we don't have too, but we don't really know if we need them or not because there is no data to support the decision either way. Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site

Hi Glenn, This utility works to check the current net hasp usage. I did not see any options to create a log file with a running history of usage throughout the day. What we want is a High/Low count of the license usage over a specific time period. Checking the usage with the NetHASP monitor program only gives you the licenses that are being used "right now". Thanks, Colin Gilchrist The Boeing Company MR2 and Beta test site