When using "Edit Common Parameters", add the ability to change the Wall and Floor "stock to leave" values.

In making Electrodes, the method I use to apply Rougher Spark gap, I modify the "stock to leave" in the operations.

On my current job, I have 80 to 100 operations that I need to change the "stock to leave" value...

That is 80 to 100 chances I have to possibly put in the wrong value, vs. 1 chance...

How well does that software work for you?

I am assuming you prefer it, as you are asking for the template.

I looked it up, and it looks to be a nice all around software...

CJep @ Prismeng:

I will look into that... Thanks...

K2csq7™:

Yup, I am heavy into the use of Import / Export of Ops.

That has helped alot. Thanks...

Howdy all.

I am in search of a way to use "GROUPS" (see picture #1) to aid in selecting chained geometry.

I do differing variations of the same thing, day in and day out, month after month, and I am always looking for ways to "automate" things in my programming...It gets VERY boring and very tedious otherwise...(it pays the bills)

Anyhow, I am currently using GROUPS, where I have saved surface or solid geometry into a group, and then I use an external keystroke recorder to execute a set of keystrokes, and I can make Mastercam select geometry "semi"-automatically...

But, so far, I am unable to get chained geometry to be selectable by GROUPS...

Does anyone know how I could first:

Define a chain in a GROUP, with correct chaining "direction" and the correct "side" defined...

and then...

Also be able to select that GROUP from within the operation...

I have proven that, for example, in a Surface Finish Contour operation, I can go to select Drive Geometry, and then I can click the "ALL" button (see pic #2) and there at the top is the "GROUP MANAGER".

I can enter that GROUP MANAGER, and then select the group I want, and that geometry is selected...

But, when I attempt to select Containment Geometry, there is no way I can access the GROUP MANAGER...

Yes, it seems like alot of work, when I could just pick geometry "normally" but, I am not normal...

And, in the past years I have made 100's if not 1000's of the same thing, with just slight variations, and I have realized over time that I am constantly doing the same things, over and over, and if I could eliminate even a few mouse clicks on each job, that alone would be satisfaction enough...

Anyhow, thanks...

Thanks...

In my free time, I will give it a try...

marting, that is it.

Thank you...

In V9.1 days, while in an operation, I could type the tool number in the tool number field, and as I was typing, the library would jump to that tool, in it's list.

Now, in X3, saw the other day somewhere on the Fourm here that there was a toggle switch to force this function to work, but I can't re-locate where the post on the forum was, and I can't find in MCX3 where this setting is...

Anyone know where to find this?

Thanks very much...

Very nice.

That worked.

Thanks for the help.

Sounds good.

Thanks Roger...

Hello all...

With Script Linker, is it possible to "overwrite" Mastercam's Icons for Standard Mastercam functions?

I have learned (but not yet used) that to create an icon for a custom function / chook, Script Linker could be used.

But, would it be possible to have my "own" icon, say for "Top G-View", or any other Standard Mastercam function?

Over the day, my eyes tire and get visually confused, not only in Mastercam, but in many softwares, when certain icons either look somewhat similar to another icon, or that there is an "image" to represent a function.

In the V9 days (yes, I know I should not bring it up, but it's part of Mastercam's history), I was able to create my own icons, and then have those as what I would see in my Mastercam GUI.

Way, way back I had found some info in the Industrial forum, I mean like in X or real early X2, where someone had done something along the lines of what I am wanting, but I have long forgotten the info, and have been unable to locate it doing some searches...

Thanks very much.

Howdy all...

I use Hot keys, Keymapping, and Keystroke combinations alot in Mastercam. I can access most anything in MCX3.

For example, I use a combination of keystrokes to access X-Form Translate as follows:

Alt X T

But, I cannot find how to open the "ALL" or the "Select All" Dialogue.

I am not speaking of Select All under the Edit Dropdown menu, I am speaking of the Dialogue that opens up when you click the "ALL" button. (See the attached picture)

Does anyone know if there is a way to Keymap to this Dialogue, or know of a Hot Key or Keystroke combination to access this dialogue?

Thanks.

Sounds good,

Thanks.

I was using Create Point Dynamic, and it is nice. I just need now to be able to get the point info and the vector info output to Calypso, with as little "human" intervention as possible...

Thanks.

So, my co-worker Jim posted this up here yesterday for me. Thanks Jim...

What I am trying to do is to pick points, on my Solid Model, inside Mastercam X3, and then these points would be output to a Zeiss CMM which is running Calypso, and the same exact points as I picked on my Solid Model would be the points that the Zeiss CMM would check on the part I have machined, and placed on the CMM.

Just to be clear, I am not trying to reverse engineer FROM an existing part, on the CMM, and then import point cloud info INTO Mastercam.

I have programmed my CNC code, cut a part, and I want to be able to generate the points inside Mastercam, the points I want to have the CMM check, and then have a software like Vericut output those points in the correct format, so that Calypso could import these points in and these points would be what the CMM inspects.

We do have the CMM programming seat, in Calypso, but for certain situations, I want to be able to determine these points within Mastercam, and then have these points sent out to Calypso.

Thanks very much...

Thanks very much for the help.

Not certain offhand how similar, but I have milled M2 Dies, using Seco tools, which cut very, very nicely...

They will give you a very good starting place, cutter wise, and Speed / Feed wise...

My bad i happened to be walking by a machine when i got ur email notification of a reply, it actually says "seq no search" on the 31i

I just tried that button, and it worked great...

Thanks...

soon as you hit the "N" key in memory mode the soft keys will change and you should see the "n srch" soft key appear

Thanks, I will give that a try...

Ron, that is the way I have programs set on the Mikron / Heidenhain that I run. Each tool is it's own sub, and it works WONDERFULLY...

Currently, the post and the "procedure" on these Fanuc machines are what they are, and I just have to do what I have to do....

Jason, where on the control would I find this button? I am not seeing anything like that, but I don't know what it should look like...

Thanks guys, very much...

Someone here showed me also that I can input an M99 P(n#) in the sub file, and once the control hit that, it would jump to the N# of that tool, and that did work, but I had to edit the code, which I avoid if at all possible...

Thanks again...

Howdy all.

I am running a Fanuc 31i control, and don't know the way to achieve something...

I have a "MAIN" file in CNCMEM named 01234

In this file is a pallet call, then a call for a program named O1111 (O1111 lives in the DataServer).

Program O1111 has 3 long running tools.

I had to stop the cut at the end of the 2nd tool, and restart the MAIN file.

In EDIT, I know how to search to the correct pallet call (in the "MAIN" file), then set the Control to MEM and Single Block, execute the pallet call, then I single block to call up Program O1111.

Here comes my issue...

Once I am "in" Program O1111, I do not want to have to run the first and second tools. I want to "jump" to my 3rd tool, and begin cutting.

When I switch the Control back to EDIT, to search for the Tool #, the "MAIN" file is open in the editor...

I can't seem to be able to search to the tool I want to run, within the "SUB" file living on the Dataserver...

How can this be done?

Also, at each tool call there is a N number, but the rest of the code lines do not have N numbers.

Thanks very much...

See attached. Once again, this is for X2 MR1.

Thanks very much.

I have an unofficial CNC Software File-Browse NETHook for X2 MR1. What version are you running?

 

Thad

Thad, is that a NETHook I could get a copy of?

Thanks.

Thanks very much.

I will give that a go...

Good Friday all...

I am running a Fanuc 31i, and want to know if there is a parameter I can change to do the following:

On our 18i controllers, if I change the Spindle Speed Override, say to 110%, I can click over to SYSTEM MONITOR and the control will give me the true RPM the spindle is running at, taking into account the 110%.

If I do the same on the 31i, I can get to the MONITOR page, but the RPM is not changing when I adjust the Spindle speed override.

Is there a paramenter that I can set on the 31i to get this to function?

Thanks.

Very nice!!

Thanks very much for the help.

I will give this one a shot.

Looks as if that is the ticket...

Thanks again...

I want to be able to select All Non-dirty Operations, in the ops manager, in Mastercam X3

Below is a script I found that will select all Dirty Ops.

Is there a way to "invert" this, or define some other criteria that would select "clean" ops?

I ahve been looking in the reference guide, and am un-able to find anything...

Thanks very much...

' -- Start Script

Call Main()

' ////////////////////

' Sub Declaration

' ////////////////////

Sub Main()

Call RunMastercamCommand("OMselectDirtyOperations")

End Sub