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Niezingerly

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  1. Thanks to all for the input. A co-worker of mine wrote a macro that forces the H to equal the T number. This is what we were looking for. Thanks again...
  2. I am searching for a topic, and can't find it. I remember someone mentioning it, somewhere, but... So, here I go... I want the control (Fanuc 31i A5) to force the H value and the D value to be the same as the T Number, no matter what is in the program. Just the other day, someone fat fingered the value for the H value, at the machine, and well, part, meet spindle. It's weird what "H " does to things...(that's H with a "nothing" value after it.) ("Hmmm" says the control, "my tool has no length...OK, here I go...") I believe there is a setting or parameter to force the control to do this, but I can't find the topic that had the info. Any help appreciated... Thanks.
  3. Sort of strange... I am in X6, and never use the HST toolpaths. My work is 3D contoured graphite electrodes, and I have other toolpaths I use a lot. I tried HST out for something I was helping someone with, and have found "sort of" a way, for you, I think. Using Opti-Core, somehow I got it to plunge in air outside the part, and I cannot get it to helix in again. So, there might be something there for you. If I could, I would tell you my settings, but up to this point, I can't figure out what I set to make it do it... Try Opti-Core, and see if you can get it to engage outside the part, and not helix in over and over... Attached is the file, but it is X6. Sorry... STRIPPER FOR MASTERCAM-MGM-2.MCX-6
  4. Woops... File is there now... STRIPPER FOR MASTERCAM-MGM-.MCX-6
  5. See the attached file... Hopefully it helps...
  6. On the third cut, I removed the vertical wall, and only had the floor selected and had the boundary selected, and it looks like it generated correctly... I am having issue putting some pictures up. but I will try later..
  7. I am no computer geek (wish I was) but I was thinking along those lines, that it had reached some limit, like you are saying... I was trying to divide 32676 by 8 (8 bits), but the number was not a whole number, so I gave up on that thought... I ended up splitting the solid into 6 different pieces, and am able to "turn off" certain areas, when not needed for machining, and doing that, I can limp through this, but I am going to have to end up doing this part in 3+2 instead of 5 axis simultaneous... Oh well... Thank you.
  8. Boss's Pet project, milling a golf ball on a 5 axis machine. Error keeps popping up..."Number of boundary points exceeds 32767" What is this? 565 surfaces on the golf ball.... I was able to generate something using Rotary 4-axis, kept getting the same error, kept clicking OK to the error, after a bit, got some toolpath... Now I am trying 5 axis multisurf, had to click ok to this error probably 20 times, then got some toolpath... Any idea what this is? Thanks
  9. Good morning... X6 MU2, Windows 7... I am trying to transform (Translate) a Surface High Speed Waterline operation, and the software will not let me do it. "Toolpath generation failed"... is the error that appears. I have tried Delta and Between Points, and neither will work. Within the same file, I can choose other types of operations (2D Contour, Surface Finish Flowline) and I am able to Trasform those types of operations, but not Surface High Speed Toolpaths... Anyone else having this issue? Thanks...
  10. James, yeah, we do name them with more understandable names, there are just a few lengthy reasons I still want to use folders... Once I am the macro guru, then, well I guess I could attempt to figure out a macro to do this...That will be a while....Pesky customers wanting their jobs done, on time, they just make what could be fun into, well, WORK! Bob, thanks for that info...My brain right now is just not firing right, need more coffee, and then I am gonna sit and study what you have there...Looks very nice... Thanks to all....
  11. Bob, yeah, that's what I do now also, but it gets very cluttered very quickly... I called Fanuc, they said no go... The Fanuc guy did hint that a macro could be written, but he couldn't think of any variables would store the path info... Oh well...
  12. James, prolly the same with a card mounted in the front slot of the machine, not searchable?
  13. I have a "main" program, that does things like call in the pallet, do some probing, etc., before the actual code is called up. This "Main" program then calls up the cnc program to actually cut the part. This is why I am using M198. Also, I am separating my different jobs into different folders, on the Dataserver. At times, I need to run a job, say at night, and then I want to run another job, right after it, at night. No one is here to hit "M198 OPE FOLDER" I want to map the path, using code (cnc, M code, macro, whatever), so that I can run jobs consecutively, but still have them divided into separate folders... Anyhow, I am certain to 99% of the world, that seems nuts, but it's the reality here... Thanks.
  14. Good afternoon. Running a 31i-A5 control. I am wondering how to set the M198 OPE Folder path using the program, instead of "manually" hitting the "M198 OPE FOLDER" softkey... Anyone doing this? Thank you very much...
  15. rocheey... yeah, but there is a method to my madness... Roger, I will see how this performs on my end. Thank you both for the help...
  16. Let me ask an idiotic question... If I can't make this function correctly on my system, could the script be modified to "fix" the issue, by searching out "nci" at the beginning of the nci file name, and then deleting it, even if it would have to run it, and then re-parse everything to run "again" to remove the NCI prefix? Sounds stupid, I know, but this script is something I had years ago in V9 (or something very similar) and it saved me SO much work and errors in setting the NCI name, that I would deal with a "stupid" solution, if it will give me the result I would want to see.... I know the thing to do is to figure out why it is doing this, and fix THAT, but those pesky customers really get in the way of me having any fun at my job, so I have to please them first...which leaves very little extra time to do the cool stuff..... Thanks for your help...
  17. You know, that does not surprize me... I always seem to have some weird thing going on on my system that others can't replicate... I just tried to make a video clip of me doing all the steps, and showing how it comes out on my computer, but, too big... I am going to try on another computer here...
  18. Good morning... I recieved a script from another member (on the Industrial Forum) that re-names the nci files to the Group names. It works great, but I am having one issue with it, that seems "file specific" or more correctly "Mill Machine Group" specific. Attached is an MCX6 file, and the script... When I run the script on the attached file, all the nci file names have added onto them "nci" at the beginning of the nci file name. When the script runs on say the group that is named "T09_A", the nci file name will read "nciT09_A.nci"... I have gone and created a new Mill Machine Group, in this same MCX6 file, placed the Groups and operations under this newly created Mill Machine Group, and then run the script, and after doing that, the nci file names come out correctly (The ops under the group named "T09_A" have the nci file name of "T09_A.nci". And, if I create a new mastercam file, create a group, and some operations within the group, and then run the script, in this case the nci file name also comes out correctly, without the added "nci" at the beginning of the nci file name... It would not be such a big problem, except that I have multiple hundreds, if not thousands of Mastercam files from over the past 10 years that I want to be able to run this script on... It seems to be specific to the Mill Machine Group that exists in the files already, but I have been un-able to determine why the added "nci" prefix is being. Any help would be appreciated... Thank you... TREWTRETREWTREWER.MCX-6 RenameNciByGroup.zip
  19. Bingo, that was it... Thank you for your help...
  20. Good morning... I am having an issue in X6, where I am seeing that the RPM and Feed defined in the tools is not being inherited into the operations, when I select the tool... I serached on here for this, but did not find it. Anyone else seeing this, and any solutions to this? Thank you.
  21. Well, if I create a new Mill Machine Group, and take all my operations, and put those ops within that new machine group, guess what...no extra "nci" at the beginning of the names... Guess I need to rebuild my template file... Something weird in it... Now that I think of it, I believe this template file is originally an X3 file that I brought up to X6... When will I ever learn... Oh well. I got all year... Thanks again.
  22. So weird.... I have a template file I use, where ALOT of stuff is already defined, levels, starting geom I always use, Groups in ops mgr... If I run the script in that file, "nci" is added to the front of the nci file names. If I create a blank, brand new mcx6 file, import in some operations with groups, and then run the script, no "nci" added to the nci file name... I know computers only do what they are told, but I believe mine is out to get me... Once I figure this out, I will post what is causing this... No matter, still a b}tchin script...Thanks for it....
  23. Sounds good. I will give that a try.... Thanks for all this help.

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