Been messing with this for the past three days and I am nearly bald from it. I have a model created in Solidworks 2007 that I have tried exporting to mastercam using the following extensions (.sldprt, x_t, step, and sat) I have also tried re-drawing to the entire model. Every time I go to toolpath the part using rough parallel or even finish parallel I get the Unable to Extract One Solid Face. I have also tried re-importing a completly different .x_t model that I have recently used which worked fine in the past but now I am getting the same error. I ran a solid anylyze in both mastercam and solidworks with no problems in any of my models. I am using X4 and I know I have done something but what I have no clue so I am hoping someone might have some insight to this problem.

Thanks Tom, I really appreciate it. Trust me I have been trying to help him out I waisted an entire day on the phone yesterday explaing on how simple it is, and he kept sending me sldprt files. I just grew a little impatient. Thanks again it is really appreciated.

I am having a problem with the engineer that I am working with as he doesn't know how to save a Solidworks file as a parasolid They are using SW2010 and unfortunatly we never upgraded our version of SW2009 or MX3 and was hoping that someone can convert two solidworks 2010 files to a parasolid for me. I know this is a odd request but I would like to get going on this project and bypass this guy altogether. Part One Part Two Thanks Chris

Thanks for the idea guys, it might be backlas, as I have tried two brand new 1/4" ball endmills, and the wireframe revolved was the second toolpath I tried after a parallel off a solid didn't give good results. It is weird as it leaves a peak/step at the bottom. I am trying a steep parallel right now to do just the bottom from 0-20 degrees to see if that will work.

Trying to do a simple surface toolpath and I have havving a bit of a problem. I have a 2 inch half cylinder cut through a block and when I toolpath it it is leaving a step on the bottom of the cylinder. I have used both surfaces and solids, tried parallel, pencil, and scallop toolpaths and they all give me the same thing. I would just stand it up on end but I have no tool long enough to bore it out. Here is a picture of what I am trying to do, where the scribble on the bottom of the part where the toolpatch is leaving a small step. Anyone have any suggestions?????

Well I am lost my boss came to me and want me to cut lag threads on our CNC lathe. I am unsure if this is even possible because aren't lag bolts formed and not cut????? So is it possible to cut lag screws on a CNC??? If so I will figure it out but I am a little lost.

Thanks Chris, much appreciated, this helps alot.

Before I got started I thought I would check to see if by any chance that someone had a model of the Haas HR 310 4 axis Rotary Table. Being that Haas doesn't give you sufficient info that you can't model I wanted to save some time and not have to do all the measurements. Any help would be great.

Thanks for the reply Slyd, I went ahead and did what you suggested and tried both curves and a spline. I got the curve the sweep, however it still twists around the 3D portion of the curve. I have tried chaining directings, using surfaces instead of solids, and other various things just with no luck, any other suggestions that I can try as this one is really got me boggled.

I uploaded a file in the MCX2 folder named CAMSWEEP.MCX, I was hopeing someone might have some time to look at it to see why when I do a Solid sweep it comes out distorted. I have done tons of these in the past but this one I cannot figure out. I have also tried doing a surface sweep but it does not follow the path??? Any suggestions here will be great!!!

You may try looking into decking material. You can get a piece that is 8 feet long, by 1" thick and 6" wide for $15 to $25.

Hey John what I am wanting is on certain toopaths I need the G28 to stop at a certain position and to carry some type of note, like clear chips or add bolts etc.., I like the idea of using a canned text over manual entry based on the size of the program and the amount of toolpaths used.

Coming from a previous topic, it is possible to have the canned text at the beginning of the program and not the end?

I am using the manual entry, currently

I have been been working on editing my post for our Haas mills but ran into a area I don't know how to do. What I am wanting to do is whenever I enter a comment I want the machine to go to a particular X,Y,Z position at a M00 Such as code: G91 G28 Z0. M9 G90 X-5 Y16 M00 (Bolt Down Part) If there isn't a comment it should look like this code: G91 G28 Z0. M9 M00 Can I do this by adding a Canned Text command or something. I am lost

Thanks for everyones response. I just got off the phone with Renishaw, unfortunatly they do not sell the EasyProbe software any more. I did pick up the crash protection attatchment thanks for pointing me in that direction. I'll just keep trying at it.

Well two touch probes later I still cannot figure out how to get a angle output dimension. We cut alot of parts that have angle callouts. Does anyone know if it is possible to have the Hass Probe output the angle of a part to the mdi screen or edit screen? Any direction would be great.

THanks for the reply Allen, however I went into the Device manager and their is no area to change the ports not in Serial Connections or USB Connections.

WE just purchased a new Titanium Faro Arm and I am trying to have the Faro Arm Communicate with mastercam. However it is looking for Com 1 or Com 2. However this is a usb device and is using Com 6. Is thier a way to have mastercam recognize the USB com port. Also the computer does not aver a serial port so a converter won't work Any help would be great.

This is a little off topic but wondering for you Haas gurus out thier if you can help me out. We are currently running a program that we have ran numerous times before but without any alarms the spindle turns off and it keeps feeding. We thought maybe it was the program so while I was checking it we popped in another program and it did the exact same thing the spindle stopped and it kept feeding through the rest of the program. We put a new guy on our machine last night and we are thinking he might have changed a setting we don't know about. Does anyone know of a setting or possible fix to this proplem? Anything is greatly appreciated.

Hey gcode, I have been running Solidworks and 9.1 for the last week on my Dell M90 with a Quadro 2500 FX. As for Solidworks, I installed 2006 and I was able to run it once, although it would crash every time after that. So I was able to get the 2007 Vista beta and it has run perfect since installation. Mcam 9.1 has run with the only difference I saw was that when it backplots it is slower, but verify and everything else runs great.

I helped out our a friend with both a Centroid 3 and 5 axis machine. The 3 axis was simple all we did was change what Bernie said swithed to semi colons and had to output the tool changes from T1 to M61. I will try to contact him today to see if he is still using it. Now the 5 axis is a whole different story, we were never able to edit a post to get it running nor were we able to find a post to get it running. If I remember they are using UG NX4 to program the 5 axis although he want to ditch that and simply use mastercam.

A big thanks to everyone for all of the help, it worked out great, I appreciate it a bunch.

Thanks for the quick reply Colin, I should have mentioned that I am still stuck with V9.1 I was thinking is thier a way to have question fields pop up, when it goes to post where I can enter information in them?? That might make it alot easier for a couple of the smaller items I needed.

I was wondering is it thier a way to post the stock size and stock origin that are set in the job setup? Reason new management are doing away with printers as they do not want any paper laying around about the jobs we are running so setup sheets are a no no now and we need to put all the information directly in the posted files. I am currently using a modified mpmaster post.