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maybe taking off less with faster feed speed will help you?
Or...if you mean that at the beginning of a path the entry is very rough? if so maybe try playing with the entry/exit of the tool?
welcome... you will find that just reading the posts in here will teach you many new tricks. There are some very helpful and knowledgeable people on this forum. Oh and just ignore the idiots!!!
Hi all!!
Been super busy here so I decided to invest in some software and hardware...I purchased VeriCut, thanks for all of you that helped with that decision, and a new pc. My issue is that i don't feel like my pc is spitting out code much faster than my 4 year old HP laptop was. My question for all you guru's is this. What can I do to use my resources more efficiently? can I allocate some resources specifically to Vericut and others to mastercam? Are there settings within MC and Vericut that will help me? PC specs are on my siggy. Thanks in advance!!
Hey all...been awhile....I have a customer that needs a layout and all I have is an stl file... is there any way to create surfaces or solids off this stl so i can do a layout?
did you try opening just the files and changing them into a MC file? I also have issues sometimes where engineers send me files, but when i go to open them, there are no entities in the file?
if you making the groove all around a square part can you use curve toolpath and select surface all edges? i find that works better that using geo and using surfaces to drive it. i always use the edge whenever possible on a curve, seems to be much cleaner?
hmmmm....if i change it to a ball end tool it cut's fine. it's only when I use a straight that i can recreate your issue? may have to trick MC and tell it you are using a ball? that part should still cut good i think???
I may be missing something else as well? I would be interested in seeing someone elses solution. it just doesn't seem right that i have to cheat the software? And how do you teach people that in a class??? heck that's your problem not mine!!!
Hi Travis!!! Hope all is well? I think I know what you did. turn your angle increment in the tool axis control to 1. I would bet you have it on 2? From the time on your post looks like you were maybe up too late or had too many Thanksgiving spirits?! All I ever see is what looks like a slight adjustment right at the point of the limit? I assume you are talking about the classic multisurface toolpath? I seldom use that anymore since X5 released. the more advanced paths give me much more control. Hoping X6 is gonna have a magic button that toolpaths the part by itself!!!
Dave S.
hmmmmmm....i can't get mine to do this? I don't get a response when i right click in my manager? sounds like a nice way to do it... wonder why mines not working?
I'm with Keith... I quit using that time. i am more accurate looking at a part a guessing from experience. I tested this on a mold for the front end of a bus... it said a 40 hour part should take 15 hours!!! needless to say I won't be in business long if i use it for quoting purposes!!
Would be a very nice feature if it were close though....
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