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motor-vater

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  1. JLW I "Might" owe u a dollar! FML... lol I'll run another test cut, this has turned into a learning experience not a job.. lol
  2. I want to say I tried that, but it was a long day of yelling at the screen.. lol The tool paths to look at are in Machine group 1 #'s 4 and 5... And I know I am an unorganized mess... lol Uncle Jimmy.Z2G
  3. No worries Buddy, I have a sense of humor that always seems to get misinterpreted on forums. But in the spirit of the situation I am going to try to attempt to post my file so that others can chime in while I'm waiting for my rep to get back to me. As it turns out when I turned up the precision on my verify the gouges were there. My graphics card must suck cause the most I could get away with was a factor of 2.5 and that took about 5 minutes to digest.. lol
  4. I was just making a funny buddy, I have read many of your posts over the years and have found many solutions in those posts. And this post has given me even more ammo, I actually was content with my toolpath adaption but it does not solve the issue, just a work around. I always forget that I can contact mastercam, after all I do pay a small fortune for my chair. BEST IDEA EVER! Thanks buddy
  5. I was having this same problem just yesterday, when fooling around on a pyramid shaped part that I am running test cuts on. Found it happening in Hybrid, scallop, and most of the surface tool paths I was playing with. Finally went old school and just created a pocketing program and projected it onto the surface. Worked like a charm, not sure it would work in your case, but I am positive it is one little setting somewhere or something I need to uncheck in the toolpath. I'm not very smart and have only been using mastercam for about 8 years, luckly for me I am self employed so I don't have to fire myself for wasting 6 hours of company time on a Saturday... For what its worth 5 axis some of us don't understand 90 percent of what mastercam does so getting frustrated with us is similar to beating up a retarded kid! lol
  6. Its hard to tell what you are doing with out actually seeing the file. Do u have 5 axis for this part? For the green line, try splitting the surface at that line and then select the top part of the surface as a check surface. also if that is a flow line tool path I find creating the spline to the out side of the port will usually drive the tool better. Its hard to guess at it Ive been on port expert since X6 so its been awhile since Ive used flowline
  7. I would definitely be interested in contact info for big giant. Not sure AFR would want to be doing work on the competitions head.. lol
  8. Looking for a company that can reverse engineer engine parts into to cad/cam file that will import into master cam. Mainly cylinder heads and such (no port digitizing, just models and combustion chambers) Would be nice if local to Chatsworth California. But I am willing to ship as well please let me know Pete [email protected]
  9. Sleep???? Who can sleep when MX-cam is laughing at you.... I am always loosing sleep trying to reinvent the wheel. Its why I truely enjoy this forum, so many hours get saved by simply asking the right questions.. Thanks guys... By the way how do u make surfaces water tight, it seems they always have a seem where the spline is broken???
  10. I have a question hopefully someone can answer. In Head Porting I work with surfaces that are created off of nurb splines, which originate from a point cloud. My question is to double check my port surface accuracy it would be nice to calculate port volume in CC's, to compare to the original port that I am trying to replicate.. I have created lofted solids that look like they would work, then I can analyze/volume but I am not sure how to use that info to come up with cc's??? Thanks I'm on X4...
  11. I run a 8 inch long 1/2 inch. 6" out of the holder, 3000 rpm, 80 to 100 IPM. Not sure if its right but it works... I run a 3/8 the same way... Also my tools are always made by Bob White at SFS Carbide, with chip breakers.... Happy Hole Making
  12. Yes I would like to able to machine a toolpath off those surfaces, of-coarse... I have found that a flowline did not work on an STL file atleast the way I was trying to do it. And I have also tried it in advanced multi axis with no real success. it still looks at it as a thousand little surfaces with normals again probably just they way I was attempting to do it. I am on x4 mui3 and am hesitant to upgrade because it has been my experience that its always better to wait for the first upgrade so as to avoid all the crashing and what not.... But 4 was incomplete as far as their porting config in advanced multi axis... But back on track here if i could make surfaces that easily and then machine them too... I would be in heaven..... I looked at Rhino and am impressed with its capabilities especially combined with tsplines, the fact you can manipulate surfaces by pulling on them and things like that are awesome. But when I downloaded it and played with it for free I found it very unfamiliar and down right confusing/frustrating they make it look so ez on youtube Secondly I could only export as an IGS which when brought into mastercam the surface was interpreted as an STL. So I would assume I would still need some other software to convert it back to a surface???
  13. Ron Yes, Yes, Yes that is what I am talking about... Can it convert it to a single surface from that... I am interested in finding out more please...
  14. My control has a built in CMM so that is not the problem, its what to do with the data after words that drives me up the walls. There has got to be a better way to create and manipulate surfaces, which is the basis of my question. Thanks though...
  15. Whats happening all. I am at a cross roads, 90% of all machining/programing I do is for 5 axis cylinder head porting with MasterCam X4 MUI3. I am happy with the tool pathing abilities of MCX4, but trying to make surfaces with it from a reverse engineering stand point is wearing on my last nerve. I have spent countless days and nights banging my head against the key board only to get laughed at by the Master... Taking points clouds converting to splines, blending spline, breaking splines, surfacing, offset surfacing, more effing splines, just to make more surfaces, that in all reality SUCK!!! Not to mention every step along the way loosing tolerance in the quest for a smooth machinable final surface (its my unicorn). Then when I finally get something worth tool pathing, God forbid I want to change something....ERRRR!!! So I guess my question is can verisurf help simplify this process for me??? The cross roads is that I can upgrade to x5 hope its got some better tools to help, get the next engine scanner with rapid works(would save alot of time digitizing), Or bypass all and get verisurf???? One of my head porting friends told me to get verisurf, but that is all he said. So I have no idea how or why this can help me???? Thanks in Advance
  16. Thought I would share the solution to the problem that I was having. After talking to Aaron at Centroid CNC I found that it was not necessary to trim and combine the 2 surfaces. We used an advanced 5 axis toolpath and pick the main surface/port as the drive surface and the secondary surface as a check surface. It toolpaths flawlessly!!! There is still no way that I have discovered in X4 to join surfaces but there are apparently plenty of ways to toolpath them... Thank you to everyone that jumped in to help....
  17. Tried every way with Rhino to merge the surfaces doesn't seem to work. FML!!!!!
  18. What should I bring it into Rhino as. Everything I have tried doesnt work to import the surface to Rhino??
  19. Ok I think I have it on the FTP! it was just a qwick slam on toolpaths I would have played with the filters more if it was not a sample. But I am also interested on some toolpath and filter tips if any sees fit, Thanks a bunch... ftp://mastercam:[email protected]...%20QUESTION.MCX
  20. Ok have the free demo, what file type should I import and export my surfaces as, to get them in I found that I had to bring splines in and recreate surfaces? Thanks for your help
  21. I will try to post it tomorrow, thanks for taking the time for a newb. It is a port, and I am having to put a vertical cylinder shape through the side of it, in order to provide more material in a thin area. It will not tool path correctly with a flow line 5 axis, the tool path I normally use on ports. Because it wants to machine them both as independent surfaces rather then one consistent spiral.. I'm sure there are ways in advanced 5 axis but i get frustrated with trying to find the right filtering settings cause it takes 15 minutes to regen the op.... I literally spent 3 days straight playing with that once and almost lost a good friend last time I played with those... As far as creating new splines/curves its a ton of work. not the projecting but the blending of the splines, the breaking the splines in 10 spots to get the surface to lay right. I'm really just hoping there is an easy way like in other cad/cam's where they just have something like Surface/Combine that would really make my day...lol
  22. This would really help if I knew how to do this. Ive been projecting splines and trying to recreate the surface with the bulge but on top of being time consuming I loose a lot of the detail in my surface. Any help would be greatly appreciated [ 04-12-2010, 01:42 AM: Message edited by: motor-vater ]

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