I've been out for about 5 years so bear with me.

In x2 I had a Chook that I got from someone on here. I had a cam lift table with degrees and amount of lift off of the base circle. I remeber opening it up and it would ask for the excel file, the base circle diameter and if I wanted points or a spline. I can't for the life of me remeber what it was called and I am searching now but not having any luck can someone help me out?

Thank you

I can't find where you are talking about. It is in the post right? Where at exactly?

In my lathe live tooling post it is always changing my offsets if I do 60 gear teeth it does 60 offsets. Some where in my post can I change it so if Its always on the main spindle it will use G54? What and Where would I put it?

I have been able to rotate a C axis cross contour toolpath in X2 I have X3 now. It throws an alarm when you try it and if I try to do it I get strange rapid moves at the end of my depth cuts on every cut but the original. It says try the tool plane method. Anyone?? I am trying to cut 60 teeth on the OD but I don't know the Toolplane method. I could rotate cross contour toolpaths in X2 Whats the deal??

That was the problem. Thanks

Find overlap C hook not working in X3 I need this feature. Is anyone having issues with it?

you could have waited at least two minutes to answer. It would have made me feel better. Thank you very much John

I now have X3. When I post a drill cycle (lathe) I get

CUSTOMIZABLE DRILL CYCLE X0. Z(finish depth)

I just want it to peck long hand. I can't remeber what to change Some one help me out here I know this.....

Thanks

It isn't working......any other ideas???

I will give it a try thank you very much

I have been trying to cut a part Using C-Axis Face contour. I have the endmill going right through X0.0 on the machine (the center of a 7" piece of round aluminum). The toolpath shows good on MC but when I run it. The endmill goes around X0.0 It makes an arc around the center. I don't know what to do. Thank you

I get that a lot no idea on how to help you. I do a stock transfer and everything just goes to H. I delete the operation and try it again it usually works. I feel your pain.

project on a surface?

2) If your stock to remove on one step is less than the nose radius of the insert MC will ignore it sometimes, particularly with Canned toolpaths, so you may need to drill the hole smaller in MC than it really is in order to prevent this.

I do that offten.

Stock recognition to use stock for outer boundry?

I only use Lathe. I use it everyday. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!! It happens to me about 1-2 times a week. I am waiting for changes to happen. It is part of my routine to check and make sure there are retract moves on ID tools after I post. Sometimes it doesn't want to put them there. I was 10mm in a part yesterday and it wanted to send the drill home.

Sorry it just pisses me off when I hear this stuff

It's not production stuff. It is prototype. I should have made it clear I was in a hurry. The OD is to be held that tight. The surface isn't that tight. They are supercharger rotors. I am new to milling on the c-axis and the guy before me just used it for cross holes so he is not much help. I am just looking to see if it can be done.

Ok I have a part on th FTP site. It's in MCX2 part number 331132. On level 2 I only have one surface (no solids option) I only have level 1 mill and I have a C axis machine no Y. Is there anyway I can program it with out getting level 2 mill? Is level 2 mill enough? I have a special cutter to finish the valley in the bottom. But can I do the fins without level 2? Thank you for the help.

And bonus question: What machine would you all recommend to do these rotors. They are aluminum and need the OD to be held very tight +/-.005 mm

I don't have solids I am not cool But i get the model in as surfaces orient it in xform. That is level one planes are top D Z. Level 2 is create curve slice. I select all surfaces. Then delete duplicates. Shut off level 1. now open your chooks Alt+C and select findoverlap.dll Select everything and then hit cleanup. If I get gaps, and the only time I usually see them is with a cross hole or something of that nature, I will change to right side and rotate the part (45 or 90 depending on the parts) and slice it repeating the steps. It should give you a clean model and it takes about 1 minute after you get used to it. If you are not getting good slices send me the model I will check and see if it works for me.

I have a deawoo also. I have always just done it long hand. What would I have to change in the post to set it up? Thank you.

I did the update and backup when I installed X2 MR2. I don't know if that is part of the problem? I just pulled the c-hook out of my old version X I keep on a different drive and it worked in X2 MR2. I don't know why? I tried 80% of my chooks that were in X2 MR2 and Findoverlap.dll was the only one that didn't work Anyways it works now!

I just upgraded to X2 MR2 SP1. I get the chook error when MC starts up. I used some chooks ok, but when I tried findoverlap.dll I get Incompatible C-Hooks internal version number. Recompile and relink the C-hook.

How do I fix this most of the models I get aren't clean and I need this C-hook the most. Is there a quick fix besides A new install? I really don't want to have to come in tomorrow

If you have any issues Email me I can help you out. What machine are you using?

In operations manager right click toolpath group >> edit selected operations >> change NC file name. Try that while both operations are checked.

In operations manager right click toolpath group >> edit selected operations >> change NC file name. Try that while both operations are checked.