CJep, I have that set to inside. It still wants to cut the containment boundry. Also forgot to mention that I am using X4 mu3 . Any other suggestions out there or has any one else seen this . Thanks,

Is there a way to not cut the containment boundry when using surface restmill on a male surface. I am trying to machine a male part using the surface restmill. My proceedures are as follows. Using a solid model for the finished part and drive surfaces Created a solid for use as my stock body. ( cylinder shape) Performed two facing toolpaths to create flat areas. Ran verify and then created a STL for my new stock model Using the STL as my stock and the picking the surfaces that I want to use as my drive I get a toolpath that machines out to infinty. If I create a containment boundry and tell MC to machine to the inside of the boundry I get the toolpath that I want but also MC machines the contaiment boundry. Why does MC try to machine this boundry when (A) it is not a surface and I am using a surface routine. and ( if the containment boundry is outside of any material why does MC think it needs to machine this when I am using restmilling toolpath. Is it too much to think that when using restrough I should be able to pick my drive surfaces define my rough stock give it a border that says do not go outside of this using this diameter of tool and cut everything that you can using this tool. I have see this done in Edgecam and it works good . Can this be done in MC if so what are the proceedures ? or is there a way to tell MC not to cut the containment boundry? Thanks,

I have solved the rouge tool issues. what it came down to is that when the solid was created by another designer in Inventor his holes where defined to have 118 deg drill points. My MC tools are all defined as the actual tool that I am using which where 135 deg points. Hence MC wants to match the tool point as per the Solid mmodel features and it could not find any tools in my library that matched so it created a tool. Once I told MC to ignor the tool point geometry everything is good. Lesson learned . Jim Walthall

I am trying to figure out where I am getting rouge tool calls when using FBM Drilling. I have all of my tools in my tooling library set correctly and also the xls file and cvs file are all set correctly . When doing a FBM Drill routine I am getting rouge tool calls on some tools. I have a map file created for these tools and all of the proper tools are set in the features tree. When I then accept the FBM Drill operation I will get tool calls that are the correct tool, have the proper descritpion but the feeds and speeds are not correct. They seem to be a default setting for that size tool. I have FBM screen pointing to the correct tool library,(not on my local hard drive but on a network drive)in FBM drill. where are these tools being generated from? Also where do you set the default tool library in FBM drill menu screen? It is always pointing to the local tool library and I want to point it to a network folder. Thanks, J Walthall

Sorry about the confusion. I am trying to us canned rough cycle to finish bore a ID. I am using a so;id model that has the finished bore that i created a turn profile from. My stock is not driven fron the solid but defined in stock setup. I then drill the stock and NC showes the drilled hole . If I use the standard rough cycle it works correctly. It is only the canned cycle that is not seeing the stock. I will check all of the above mentioned items. Thanks for the help. J Walthall

I am trying to use Lathe rough cycle to turn an ID. This is my setup, I have a 12 dia stock in wich I bore a 2.375 hole. I then want to use the canned rough to finish bore the hole to 6.0" I can not get MasterCam to reconize the rough stock with the 2.375 hole. The cycle plunges directly into the stock about .2 from the finish bore and steps down to the contour that I selected . Will MC not see the stock on a ID rough canned cycle ? Thanks, J Walthall

Thanks for the info Jim Walthall

I have a part that I want to face on one end then turn the OD down half way flip the part and face and turn the other end. can you make a new WCS and tool plane to cut the reverse side so you don't have to flip the actual geometery? If so what are the proceedures . I live in the mill world so the WCS is something that I use a lot. Does this apply to lathe ? Also if I can use a new WCS do I need to make a new stock boundry? When I tried to do the new WCS I saw where the orginal stock setup disappeared. Thanks JWalthall

I am setting up a custom tool library for use in FBM drilling . This file is being used for fixture plates and I only want to have a predefined set of tools instead of lets say the millinch tool library. Do I need to make a modified xls file with only the tools that are in my fixture tool library? I wanted to map a hole for a end mill to use in a circle milling operation and the operation did not find the proper size end mill in the library. It appreared to me that in the hole mapping screen it looks at the xls file instead of the tool library. How do I get the tool mapping screen to look at the special tool library or do I need to make a special xls file.

I sure will , are there any special proceedures that I need to follow? Thanks, Jim Walthall

I am trying to define custom facemill tool in X4 with a custom profile. I have drawn the profile to the standards that mastercam wants . I use either the undefined tool icon or the facemill icon and insert(call the mcx file for the profile). I get the graphic view in the window showing the stl,but when I then apply the proper diameter the system switches back to the tool file screen and then when I check out of that screen and switch back to the tool parameter screen I get a error that the tool geometry has a problem. What is going on ? The drawing of the tool profile is a tracing of an Iscar DXF and is at the proper size.I can't figure out how to attach the mcx file so if someone can direct me to how to do that I will post the mcx of the tool profile. Thanks, Jim Walthall

Is there any plug mill tutorial out there for X4 using this toolpath. I hve never used this toolpath before and would really like a good tutorial on how to do this . Thanks, JWalthall