We do the same thing on our Okumas, except parts are cut .1" long and we leave .05 for the other side to face. I usually draw the profile of the part with the start on the orgin, then after I get it drew i translate it forward .05" in Z, then I go to program the first side. Then I use the lathe stop flip, under Geometry in lathe stock flip hit the select button and window around all your geometry, then I uncheck the "blank orginal geometry". Now under Stock position under Original position hit select, then click on the left end of the part. On level options I use the offset by "10", so this usually put the geometry on level 11. Click The green check then make level 11 the main and turn level 1 off. Now program the second OP. This work for me, but I am not sure that it is the best way to do it.

We have a Makino A51 with the Pro 5 control. The setup guy wants to have two differnt tool radius offsets for one tool. Does anyone know how this is possible for this Makino machine. Thanks

Sure did, and it was deed for me also. Actually all the link in the email were dead when I tried them.

T_MALEMA, what part of Ohio are you located in?

Well its working now, left the line width at 1, open in X2 it printed fine, went back to X3 and then it printed fine also. Thanks for the sugestions.

My line thickness are all set to the smallest setting, I assume that is a 1

Having problem trying to print some drawings in Mastercam X3. They are coming out very light, almost like a gray. They are showing up in the preview this way also. Tried printing on a couple different printers and they all did the same thing. I have the color button not checked so they print black. Anyone know what might be causing this?

Does Cam Works have high quality training videos? I keep hearing that Mastercam is missing that.

I think I'm goning to tell that subborn bull in the shop, that were going to try I&J, first then go to making the tool path out of round to make it round.

We are mill a boss on a part that has a tolerance of 14.2539/142523. The boss is out of round .002 after mill it with the finish pass. This part is running on a new Okuma MA 600 HMC. What are you suggestions to mill it out of round to make it in tolerance. Inspection gave me about 400 points around the entire bore to help tell where it is out at. I know they are using R for the radius instead of I&J, did't know if that would make a difference? Any sugestions would help. Does anyone know what kind of tolerance a new Okuma should be able to hold on this? Thanks

Thanks for the help guys, I tried both method, but seem to prefer the ramp countour path.

I am tring to put some greece grooves in a bore with the Helix bore cycle, using a lathe grooving bar. At the end of the last helix arc, mastercam is doing on more circle but not moving in Z at the final depth. Does any one have any idea why I am getting this? I have been just taking it out of the program, but a customer wants to see what it looks like on a model before we do another part, and verify I wanted to show them with verify. Thanks

No, but I was just in a meeting and there was talk about getting one like that. Looked like a very nice machine

Trying to use the nesting in X3. When I go to Xform, then Geometry NEsting, nothing pops up. Is there something I have to configure to make this work?? Thanks

I have 3 different canned cycles in a program. In each operation the post is outputting "NLAP0". Should be NLAP1 for the first then, NLAP2, NLAP3.... I did not have this problem in X2. Any one know what I need to change to make this work properly? Below is one of the Ops. Thanks ( TOOL - 3 OFFSET - 3 ) ( LCAN_ROUGH ID ROUGH MIN. 1.0 DIA. - G0 G97 G95 X37. Z7. T030303 S1200 M03 M42 G95 M8 G0 X2. Z.1 G85 NLAP0 U0. W0. D.1 F.01 NLAP0 G81 G0 X2.2283 G1 Z.0317 G1 X2.1794 Z.0072 G2 X2.1611 Z-.0149 I.0221 K-.0221 G1 Z-1.0342 G1 X2. N110 G80 G0 X37. Z7. M9 M01

Thanks Colin, I found It

Cant seem to find this new feature in X3. Could some one point me in the direction where I would find it?

Does this work with all post or just newer ones. I keep getting an error message and then it aborts it?

Where would I find this new debuging tool???????

Here where we get all our bronze parts from http://www.randallbearings.com/index.htm

Went with the FX1700 on my new system, made verify work 100 times better. IMO

why does one toolpath change it automatically and the other does't?

Hey I final got a finish face toolpath to work right. Needed to change to LEFT Seems like it could be a small bug still? In lathe Rough when it on OD it goes to Right but then when you put it on Face it goes to left automatically, but the Finish pass does not do this automatically. Well at least I know how to make it work right now

Is this a bug in Lathe or am I doing something wrong? Want to cut a small chamfer on OD and turn the face. The toolpath never does what I chain it to do. My current work around is to just use the rough toolpath and making the depth of cut a big number. This got me trouble by not changing the stock left to 0. Any suggestions

Right click on tool and go to "edit tool", then on the right side hit the "setup tool" box. Then you can choose what you want the default active spindle to be.