maybe not sure i know we have our a61 set to fire up in M255 and its a pro 5 control

i wonder if on certain machines M255 is a "sgi off" code????? our a71 fires up in M255

alt S will turn off shading so you can select what you want if you have a ton of geo you can right click on the mask icon tool bar to just select arcs lines splines etc.

i will say M252 is slower but you get great results

this it what it says in the book "used when performing contouring with an additional axis and priority is machining accuracy" my take on it is it helps the B axis "look ahead" for accel/decel

ever use M253 for B axis contours? i just remembered i never tried M254 (super gi mode)

i have tried all of the M codes and really didnt see a big difference at least for the work we do i generally rough with M251 & finish with M252 or M250 depending on the job

it works just fine for me in X5 MU1 i use it all the time while holding the shift key down click the geometry you want to chain i think you forgot to click the geometry

on the pro 3 control the machine is in M255 when its first turned on from what i understand is it will clip corners more unlike M252

i have seen this too with X style coolant

+1 on backup i used to right click and save and got burned on the save open thing back in X3 so now i wait for the little disk icon like rickster

do you have a value you are looking for (e.g. 1.1 to 1.15)

sounds like no SGI then

try in the program after G43 M251 G5P10000 G5P0

on our a71 pro 3 control G5P10000 turns it on G5P0 turns it off i would flip on SGI if you got it HTH

be sure you have "use tools peck coolant etc" checked under tool settings in the machine tree open properties>tool settings>upper right hand box there is a tick button for this if you want it on all the time just change it in the defaults HTH welcome to the forum

ok i went in there and sure enough it was set to V9 hopefully that fixes it up CJep thanks for the tip would have never looked there, i checked all the MD and they were good but not the defaults i will keep ya posted

all coolant is set "from tool"

ok i found out some more info here when you double click a tool to use and it is set to "before" when it gets moved up to the current op its flipping to "after" anybody else seeing this or am i the only guy who uses X style coolant

ok was digging a bit deeper and found out the tool was set to "after" which should be no big deal in my post i have "before", "with" and "after" all set after the spindle command flipping it to "before" got it to work this use to work in X4 MU3 the reason for this is we have so many tools built up i dont know what tool is set to what "before, with, after" and was running into coolant not turning on fast enough on the machines so i moved all the pcan, pcan1, pcan2 up in the post. did something change here i dont know about?

well i re-started MC and now i get coolant on almost all ops but not all of them i tried a different post with the same results these are the ops that are giving me trouble that i have seen so far "contour ramp" "2D dynamic core mill"

running X style coolant and is set to "from tool" well in my ops it says its on but when i post i get nothing if i have multiple ops with the same tool the first op no coolant the next op in the middle of the code boom it turns coolant on snippet of code N7T7M6 M50 (CHIP FLUSH ON) S5093M3<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< COOLANT ON AFTER SPINDLE NOT PRESENT G0G17G90G54X3.71075Y-.79839 G43H7Z3.T4 G94 G5P10000 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<NEXT OP SAME TOOL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> G1X.32373Y-2.66162Z-1.333 Z-1.343F500. G0Z3. (SEMI FINISH CAM PROFILE +.01) X.14689Y-2.87394 M151<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<COOLANT ON Z.1 G1Z-1.343 G41D7X.14833Y-2.72394F266. any ideas why this happening or how to fix it? TIA

it would be nice that once you set a holder for a tool when you pick that tool again the holder comes with it

the code looks good so im going to run with it and see what happens if the machine reads in 5 place why not do it we have some parts here that are crazy tolerance so if i can split tenths i will for the cam curves i do i dont want any rounding plus SGI likes points lots of points thanks again Keith i would have never looked there

Keith that worked perfect thank you