high speed waterline seems to do it everytime. If i change it to a surface finish contour it posts as it should. Very odd... all values seem to be good, and no matter if new machine def or not. I can not recall if I have

ever used a high speed contour after a circle mill or not but somethin in there is not quite correct..

J - what are you doing now..

Even the original post is causing this... Although the Y values appear to be larger with original post...

Well now, thats interesting.

All this mumbo jumbo appears before the tool change is even called...

John - whats that about...

N10 G1 X-.0398 Y.1435 Z.0005 F100.

N20 X-.0833 Y.2859 Z.0009

N30 X-.1306 Y.4271 Z.0014

N40 X-.1816 Y.5669 Z.0018

N50 X-.2363 Y.7054 Z.0023

N60 X-.2946 Y.8424 Z.0028

N70 X-.3565 Y.9778 Z.0032

N80 X-.422 Y1.1116 Z.0037

etc...

N1540 X-7.5418 Y-6.6547 Z.0709

N1550 X-7.4029 Y-6.7084 Z.0714

N1560 X-7.2627 Y-6.7583 Z.0718

N1570 X-7.1211 Y-6.8045 Z.0723

N1580 X-6.9784 Y-6.847 Z.0728

N1590 X-6.8346 Y-6.8857 Z.0732

N1600 X-6.6899 Y-6.9206 Z.0737

N1610 X-6.5443 Y-6.9516 Z.0741

N1620 X-6.3979 Y-6.9788 Z.0746

N1630 X-6.2508 Y-7.002 Z.0751

N1640 X-6.1032 Y-7.0214 Z.0755

N1650 X-5.9551 Y-7.0369 Z.076

N3040 X-5.474 Y-1.4398 Z-.0073

N3050 X-5.4702 Y-1.4479 Z-.0086

N3060 X-5.4643 Y-1.4546 Z-.01

%

O11111

(T17| 1/2 BULL ENDMILL 0.0313 RAD|H17)

N100G20

N110G1G17G40G49G80G90

(FINISH ANGLES WATERLINE )

N120T17M6

N130G1G90G110X-5.4257Y-1.4873S5500M3

N140G43H17Z-.01

N150G3X-5.2929Y-1.5606I.2513J.2982F100.

N160X-5.2187Y-1.5766I.1228J.3892

Generic Haas 4 axis post... Same one for many years...

this is a problem that has never happened before

Simple program. cirle mill finish to depth followed up by a waterline to angles on walls.

when posted together as a total program the Y values on the finish path post incorrect with multiple lines of XYZ that overtravel

if I post this single path by itself the Y values are correct. I have rebooted, change post files and still having this issue.

Has it happened to anyone else, or does anyone know why ......

Single path post for finish circle, program ends at M30 and circle mill lines good good...

N1480G1Z-.5

N1490G41D16X5.3312Y1.3475

N1500G3X5.175Y1.5037I-.1562J0.

N1510X4.8625Y1.1912I0.J-.3125

N1520X5.175Y.8787I.3125J0.

N1530X5.4875Y1.1912I0.J.3125

N1540X5.175Y1.5037I-.3125J0.

N1550X5.0187Y1.3475I0.J-.1562

N1560G1G40X5.175Y1.1912

N1570G0Z.25

N1580M5

N1590G91G28Z0.

N1600G28Y0.

N1610M30

%

When combined with next toolpath and posted,

N1470Z.1

N1480G1Z-.5

N1490G41D16X5.3312Y1.3475

N1500G3X5.175Y1.5037I-.1562J0.

N1510X4.8625Y1.1912I0.J-.3125

N1520X5.175Y.8787I.3125J0.

N1530X5.4875Y1.1912I0.J.3125

N1540X5.175Y1.5037I-.3125J0.

N1550X5.0187Y1.3475I0.J-.1562

N1560G1G40X5.175Y1.1912

N1570G0Z.25 ------ this would be where the program end is from above post. However it is followed by all these extra lines of code fom this point to waterline t change..

that over travel the machine Y ..

N1580G1X5.1232Y1.3925Z.2495

N1590X5.0677Y1.5929Z.249

N1600X5.0083Y1.7921Z.2485

N1610X4.9452Y1.9902Z.248

N1620X4.8783Y2.187Z.2475

N1630X4.8076Y2.3826Z.247

N1640X4.7333Y2.5767Z.2465

N1650X4.6553Y2.7694Z.246

N1660X4.5736Y2.9606Z.2455

N1670X4.4884Y3.1502Z.245

N1680X4.3995Y3.3381Z.2445

N1690X4.3071Y3.5244Z.244

N1700X4.2112Y3.7088Z.2435

N1710X4.1117Y3.8914Z.243

N1720X4.0088Y4.072Z.2425

N1730X3.9025Y4.2507Z.2419

N1740X3.7929Y4.4273Z.2414

N1750X3.6799Y4.6018Z.2409

N1760X3.5636Y4.7741Z.2404

N1770X3.444Y4.9442Z.2399

N1780X3.3212Y5.112Z.2394

N1790X3.1953Y5.2774Z.2389

N1800X3.0662Y5.4404Z.2384

N1810X2.9341Y5.6009Z.2379

N1820X2.799Y5.7588Z.2374

N1830X2.6608Y5.9142Z.2369

N1840X2.5198Y6.0669Z.2364

N1850X2.3758Y6.2169Z.2359

N1860X2.2291Y6.3642Z.2354

N1870X2.0795Y6.5086Z.2349

N1880X1.9273Y6.6501Z.2344

N1890X1.7723Y6.7888Z.2339

N1900X1.6148Y6.9245Z.2334

N1910X1.4547Y7.0571Z.2329

N1920X1.2922Y7.1867Z.2324

N1930X1.1272Y7.3132Z.2319

N1940X.9598Y7.4365Z.2314

N1950X.7901Y7.5566Z.2309

N1960X.6182Y7.6734Z.2304

N1970X.444Y7.787Z.2299

N1980X.2678Y7.8973Z.2294

N1990X.0895Y8.0041Z.2289

N2000X-.0908Y8.1076Z.2284

N2010X-.2731Y8.2076Z.2279

N2020X-.4572Y8.3042Z.2274

N2030X-.6431Y8.3972Z.2268

N2040X-.8308Y8.4867Z.2263

N2050X-1.0201Y8.5725Z.2258

N2060X-1.211Y8.6548Z.2253

N2070X-1.4035Y8.7334Z.2248

N2080X-1.5974Y8.8084Z.2243

N2090X-1.7927Y8.8797Z.2238

N2100X-1.9893Y8.9472Z.2233

N2110X-2.1872Y9.011Z.2228

N2120X-2.3862Y9.071Z.2223

N2130X-2.5864Y9.1272Z.2218

N2140X-2.7876Y9.1796Z.2213

N2150X-2.9897Y9.2282Z.2208

N2160X-3.1927Y9.2729Z.2203

N2170X-3.3966Y9.3138Z.2198

N2180X-3.6011Y9.3508Z.2193

N2190X-3.8064Y9.3838Z.2188

N2200X-4.0122Y9.413Z.2183

N2210X-4.2186Y9.4383Z.2178

N2220X-4.4254Y9.4596Z.2173

N2230X-4.6325Y9.477Z.2168

N2240X-4.84Y9.4905Z.2163

N2250X-5.0477Y9.5Z.2158

N2260X-5.2555Y9.5055Z.2153

N2270X-5.4634Y9.5071Z.2148

N2280X-5.6713Y9.5048Z.2143

N2290X-5.8791Y9.4985Z.2138

N2300X-6.0867Y9.4883Z.2133

N2310X-6.2941Y9.4741Z.2128

N2320X-6.5012Y9.456Z.2122

N2330X-6.7079Y9.4339Z.2117

N2340X-6.9142Y9.4079Z.2112

Hello John, I am well thank you. Its been a long time since I have been here, nice to see the place is still up and helping people out.

Thank you for the input .

I do not see curvature under test surface solid. I should have mentioned I am using X4..

Is there a way to search for the smallest radius on a part for tool selection. I usually cut parts that are designed in house so I know what rad is between bottom of pockets and walls. I will need to import a part from outside source that has mutliple rad, can i do a search or analyze in order to determine my smallest tool for surfacing. Thanks

Try using lower values in the boxes for steps and refresh.

I am not a post guy by far. But after searching (manual) I gound this section of my post that from what I can see is the call section..

# Tool Comment / Manual Entry Section

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

ptoolcomment #Comment for tool

tnote = t$, toffnote = tloffno$, tlngnote = tlngno$

if tool_info = 1 | tool_info = 3,

sopen_prn, pstrtool, sdelimiter, *tnote, sdelimiter, *toffnote, sdelimiter, *tlngnote, sdelimiter, *tldia$, sclose_prn, e$

ptooltable #Tooltable output

sopen_prn, *t$, sdelimiter, pstrtool, sdelimiter, *tlngno$,

[if comp_type > 0 & comp_type < 4, sdelimiter, *tloffno$, sdelimiter, *scomp_type, sdelimiter, *tldia$],

[if xy_stock <> 0 | z_stock <> 0, sdelimiter, *xy_stock, sdelimiter, *z_stock],

sclose_prn, e$

pstrtool #Comment for tool

if strtool$ <> sblank,

[

strtool$ = ucase(strtool$)

*strtool$

]

pcomment$ #Comment from manual entry (must call pcomment2)

pcomment2 #Required if doing boolean 'if' logic testing!

pcomment2 #Output Comment from manual entry

scomm$ = ucase (scomm$)

if gcode$ = 1005, sopen_prn, scomm$, sclose_prn, e$ #Manual entry - as comment

if gcode$ = 1006, scomm$, e$ #Manual entry - as code

if gcode$ = 1007, sopen_prn, scomm$, sclose_prn #Manual entry - as comment with move NO e$

if gcode$ = 1026, scomm$ #Manual entry - as code with move NO e$

if gcode$ = 1008, sopen_prn, scomm$, sclose_prn, e$ #Operation comment

if gcode$ = 1051, sopen_prn, scomm$, sclose_prn, e$ #Machine name

if gcode$ = 1052, sopen_prn, scomm$, sclose_prn, e$ #Group comment

if gcode$ = 1053, sopen_prn, scomm$, sclose_prn, e$ #Group name

if gcode$ = 1054, sopen_prn, scomm$, sclose_prn, e$ #File Descriptor

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Start of File and Toolchange Setup

Mine seems to post fine...

I am using the Mpmaster from the post link at top of page.

N3270 G1 X-3.5736 Y-2.96 Z.0006 F6.4

N3280 X-3.5906 Y-2.945 Z.0067

N3290 X-3.6054 Y-2.932 Z.0195

N3300 X-3.6165 Y-2.9223 Z.0377

N3310 X-3.6228 Y-2.9167 Z.0596

N3320 X-3.624 Y-2.9156 Z.0752

N3330 Z.1688

N3340 G0 Z2.1688

N3350 M5

N3360 G91 G28 Z0.

N3370 M01

( MANUAL ENTRY LINE )

N3380 T1 M6

N3390 G0 G90 G110 X-3.5859 Y-2.9236 S1382 M3

N3400 G43 H1 Z2.5734

N3410 Z.5984

N3420 G1 Z.5734 F6.4

N3430 X-3.5886 Y-2.9208 Z.5496

N3440 X-3.5965 Y-2.9129 Z.5283

N3450 X-3.6088 Y-2.9007 Z.5116

your guess is correct. I was not sure this morning.

I have cut one out of 6 with a perfect outcome.. Endmill still looks brand new. I love this stuff..

Well here we go.....

Thanks Chris..

Lars, Actually I have a half dozen of these to make.

Chris thanks for the correction. And from what I can gather it is case hardened Nitride .003/.003 deep.

Will this require change from what Lars stated?

the slot is .625 deep by .803 wide in 4140 stainless

I have a altin coated .500 4fl .031 corner rad endmill .750loc. Since we mostly cut aluminum and plastics here stainless is a little nerve racking. Would anyone be willing to chime in on some cutting parameters to get this job done I would be greatfull. (machine limited to 10,000 rpm 200.ipm)

Thank You...

How about a negative number in the stock to leave...

There is more than one thing that could cause this is your top of stock really Z0. if you analyze a position at the top and its .278 from zero then it will add the 3.1 to the zero point.

Well maybe I should leave it.. This machine has a serial number in the low 4,000's its a couple years old..

Although it has happened once or twice before with no explanation since starting over an hour ago it has not stopped again..

Colin, I will bump that up a bit where this program is not as intricate as others it sounds like it could help anyway... Thanks for your input

Sometimes I have trouble getting the same results you are looking for. The only solution I have found is to create separate ops..

If you come across another method please post it up here...

Good luck

try checking optimize cut order.. If that does not get you close then copy the ops and use seperate containment boundaries for each..

Colin I am currently at 9600. the cable is 6ft only using 3ft so 3 is wound and tied. It is shielded running on a older dell with windows 2000.

Rob thanks I will also give that a try.. It must be the drip I restarted the program without changing anything and going on 30 min without a problem.

Thanks Eric. looks allot better almost a mirror. what would you recmnd for speed/feed for finishing like this. I have 10000 rpm but machine gets a little jerky around 120-150 ipm.. so at 100. would be a good place but not sure of the rpm

Robert i think the only way to change a icon for a dll is to create a shortcut for the dll in question then right click the shortcut and there is a button for change icon. then you will have to remap the toolbar button to call from the shortcut instead of the root... HTH