I know that Esprit (from taking a class with sodick) sets an inital cutting condition so that that you enter with reduced power and speed until you are actually in the work piece, to prevent wire breaks. Is there anything in MasterCam that you can change the cutting condition at the begining of a cut and then turn up the power once the wire is in the work piece?

We are attempting to switch our shop from using Image, not updated since the eighties, to Master Cam X2 to program the Wire EDM. The person who has always done the Wire Edm programming has been reluctant to switch, and I have been brought in to learn the Wire Edm and try to program with MasterCam. Up until several weeks ago I had no Wire EDM experience, but I have the advantage of genuinely enjoying learning new things and being more proficient with the computer. Anyway, certain things come up when we are working together that I am not sure what the normal Wire Edm procedure would be. When doing a tab cut I was told we need to leave .020 of material on the piece so that we can grind it off, otherwise we risk possibly gouging the piece. The only way I figured out how to do this in Mastercam is to uncheck the reset pass number before tab cuts and then changing the offset for the tab cut. The person who programs the wire says that this isn’t the proper way that the program should actually change each individual value by .020 in the tab cut, instead of changing the offset. Is there a way to do this in Mastercam? And is that the normal procedure? Also when doing tab cuts, he said it is not cutting all the way though and he has to knock the pieces out. Is there a way to get it to cut an additional .010 past the tab during the tab cut to ensure the piece is completely cutoff? And lastly for when it posts even though I tell it to have high flushing on, it turns the high flushing off before the tab cut. I am told this is a problem as well. I have been just editing the code, but is there a way to fix this? Thank You

Ok thanks, that solved the problem.

Ok I edited the post (for the first time, a little scary) and this process was 99% effective. Everything is posting the way I want except for the J value is still posting with 5 places after the decimal. 12 is the correct fs2 number. The following is what I have changed in my post yet it is still posting with 5 places only for the J values. fmt I 12 iout #Arc center description in X fmt J 12 jout #Arc center description in Y fmt I 12 kout #Arc center description in U fmt J 12 lout #Arc center description in V Any ideas what I could be doing wrong. Also thanks for the help. I would have never guessed I had to edit the post and spent my day trying to figure it out.

Is there a way to change it so that the nc output is only 4 decimal places as opposed to 5. I am having trouble finding where I can change this.

Ok thanks that makes sense.

When I co to Wireframe, Swept 2D toolpath operation from the toolpaths menu it pulls up the chaining dialog box as asks me to select the across contour and I am not really sure what is looking for. Thanks

Is it possible to generate a radius on top of pocket with entry level mastercam x2 with vmc? Thank You