I did the way as iowajim62 states. Simulation of turret will be very helpful for lathe guys. regards! Chao

uncoated carbide insert, grade H13A

sometime it works to play tolerance.

1, need to draw half of the geom. 2, from setup page, define tailstk 3, from toolpath/misc.ops/tailstk, engage or retract. regardS! Chao

We have two mori lathe with twin turrets. the controls are Fanuc 15 AT. We modified the post from PMLfanuc. the main things are the bottom turret work on X+ instead of X-. The G2s and G3s need to switch over each other for the bottom turret. We use manual entry to do the synchronizing to output Ms codes. HTH, Chao

just for discussion: In order to obtain the form deviations (straightness, flatness, roundness and circilarity),two steps have to be gone through: step#1 - collect data Generally the data collected by indicator or CMM or whatever are not the deviation value. step#2 - process data setting up two "parallel" geometries on data themself by NIMMAX principle, then the distant between the two"parallel" geometries is the deviation value. Parallelism and Flatness have nothing to do each other no matter what how perfect they are. regards!

in RoughParameters or FinishParameters window, there is a tab of RoughDirections or Finish Directions there you can play around.

1, Number all the dimentions on your print. 2, Analyze your model one by one in accordance with numbers on your print. you get one dim analyzed, you highlight the dim on print. 3,Features are not dimensioned on your print means they are not required for inspected, just cut with the model. Anyhow you need to analyze small corner to select cutter. HTH

Can you try to convert surfaces into solid and then scale them?

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That would be a great benefit for us if so.

Is Vericut able to simulate two turrets (upper and down) or two spindles (main and sub)turning centers? thnaks.

the other way you can do is adding one or more points before and after geometry chain. in this way you can lead your tool (boring bar) along the route you want.

Or open the gear.doc in the folder of chook in mastercam, you may find some tips in it.

If only a few dims need to do, you can do them as somebody told above by setting Cplane respectively; if a lot of dims need to do, it will get a messy to dim them in 3D, I would do a solid layout and then dimesion them in 2D. HTH