what are you going to scan with?if you use your mill you could use a reverse post and then backplot and save as geometry.

If the spline is planar you can creat,surface,trim,flat boundry, and select the spline to creat a surface. you will have better luck working with surfaces reverse engineering and then creating a solid from Surfaces.

Sometimes i use a G44Tx tool length comp. I don't know the g code for your machine.

what are you using poly lines for?

unless you are going to use rev quick or Raindrop geomagic. I wouldn't use point cloud data. I would take points where i needed to to creat planes,lines, arcs, and splines and work from these to creat surfaces. also i would recomend not brining in alot of data at once it can be quite overwelming. i like to use planes as much as possible because you can trim them to each other. check here rev quick

i think you could speed up some of this by using fplot to either set your vectors and or creat your planes. something like Iskander teh showed in his post, Variable pitch threads ,anybody interested ?!? I could't tell you how to do it but I bet some one out there can. mastercam forum

are you trying to do a C axis and B axis move then cut with X,Y,Z? if so yes send me a simple file and i will show you how to set it up. if not what are you trying to do?

Is anyone out there using MasterCam to program A Mazak QT 10 with T1 controler it is an 80's machine a customer recently bought. does the standard post work for this machine?

I have cut a couple of things here on our 3 axis. the problems i had was mounting the work rigid enough, and not having the proper tooling to cut al. with a 18000 rpm spindle with little torque on the low end. also the spindle is not mounter rigid. as far as the controler It is great for 3-D patterns. I would say you would be pushing it to try to cut al. molds on one.

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a little under 2500 here plus some contract work.

I think i got that error when i opened a file with solids in it that were created in inch but my config was MM

ELAD, did you use screen-next menu-plot chg prams then type 1.0 in for scale. or is this a printing problem?

I think the loss of traffic would have a negative impact for the site. if i don't want to read o/t topics I don't. on the other hand if everyone is on another site they won't be here and you won't get as many responses to your questions. My question is who doesn't like the site with O/T topics and why?

are you working in inches or metric? does it do it if you start a new file? what configuration are you using in or MM under screen, configure?