Assuming no 3+2 here...

drill it undersized, surface finish flowline with a key cutter?

Take the MD that the file uses.... move it to a new folder. 

Take the one you want to use, give it the name of the old one....

???? Maybe?

^^^

Has a member of theeeeeeeeeeee sqwercle penetrated cnc then....

SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Geez, you brits.... no bedside manners..... 

I posted a reply on our Forum....

http://forum.mastercam.com/Topic3598.aspx

Unchecking that box makes it default to whichever direction you have set in the 2 choices directly above the "Use Cursor Position" box. 

Having a tough time visualizing this.... can you share a file or screenshot?

I have used dynamic in Monel. (like 30% Copper)

Worked great. The material is free cutting, but springy, need an endmill with lotsa relief on the cutting edge. 

Also flood it. 

See if you get better results using hole axis instead of create curves. 

Ctrl click one hole and it should get the others on the same face. 

I see K2csq7. It's a relatively small area with some funky corners. Now that you bring it up there is probably not room to ramp up to full speed, but it is a 1/8 cutter, so I dunno... looks like the longest feed move would only be about 1.3-1.5". 

 

Watch the machine control while the program is running.... I bet you don't see the actual feedrate top 50IPM

There is your 2x cycle time on machine vs. mcam backplot.

I can't, but I can tell you the original size (in the toolpath display inside the Op manager) was about 2990k. I changed my stepover to 10% which more or less halved my file size to 1484.2k.

I was looking to find out if there are a lot of long straight moves in the toolpath or a bunch of tight corner pickin....

Basically, does the toolpath allow room for the machine to get up to programmed feedrate.... for the most part, or is it restricting the machine with tons of direction changes

Can you post a screenshot of the toolpath?

With the scale at the bottom right for size reference...

If you drew a circle then xform rotated it..... the quadrants of the circle get rotated also. 

for example, 1 circle drawn at X+ Y0. rotated 3x at 90°....

So 3:00 on the original circle is 12:00 on the Y+X0/second circle, 9:00 on the X-Y0/3rd, and 6:00 on the Y-X0/4th

Can you share a file?

http://demo.mtconnect.org/

^^^ I'm not 100% sure, but I think these are real machines that you can view.... 

I tried a few of them, "most are not currently available". The Mazak is functioning properly....

Call makino and ask for info. You will need some kind of adapter that can get the info from your machine and translate it into the standard developed by the MTConnect institute (non-profit).

MTB's may charge for the adapter...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTConnect

http://www.mtconnect.org/

Create

Point

Segment. 

Best thread ever.

^^^Best post ever?

Top 10 easy IMO!

I'll play....

tsaxton..... check your toolplanes, or the rotary axis you chose for axis sub, or the rotary limits in your MD (or post).... if you got the error trying to post the code from Mcam....

If you got the error trying to post the Mcam file here on the forum, zip it up with the zip to go utility under the help menu in Mcam. 

 and remote machine monitoring. 

Are you familiar with MTConnect?

If you make any changes it will ask if you want to save. 

I think the confirm close (if you havent done anything) is gone. 

I was hoping it was bigger.. 

I was thinking rough it out 3+2 from 6 (maybe 8) angles. 

What are the dims?

you told the core roughing path to leave .02

You told the opti path to leave .01

on top of that you told it to ignore small cusps with an adjustment distance of .01

.01+.01=.02 (the stock the first path left)

I made quite a few changes.....  just to get something to go. 

You need to start that over from scratch if you want to make sense out of it.....

Just keep your stock and stock models relative to TOP and you'll be good. 

Helix height under arc on the lead in/out page. 

in mastercam go to help

click zip to go util

click file, open

browse to my z2g

once open goto command, extract. 

Keep track of the location it extracts to...

You are using WCS 1 in the stock model

and WCS 2 in the opti path. 

I got something out of it for you. 

IMO, ALWAYS use TOP for you stock plane in your stock model. 

I also had to delete your steep/shallow settings and containment boundary. You can redo those if you need them. 

test.Z2G