I know one thing, this needs to be fixed A.S.A.P.

We have been playing with the Dynamic offset, here is a sample that Mazak sent us. We understand most of it but having trouble with the [#135*1.]. We are trying to probe a part and have the distance sent into the G54.2P1 from G54 (G54 being center of rotation). Can anybody help us? ( PROBE FOR DYNAMIC COMP OFFSET ) T40 (PROBE) N100 #24=0. (X POSN WRT G54) #25=1. (Y POSN WRT G54) #26=7.3 (Z POSN WRT G54) #21=7.75 (X DIM OF BLOCK) #22=5.38 (Y DIM OF BLOCK) (-------------------------) N200 M200 G00G91G28Z0 G54 (*** OFFSET AT CENTER OF ROTARY AXES ***) G90G00A0.C0. T40M06 N300G00X#24 Y#25 (CENTER OF MATERIAL STOCK ON FIXTURE) G65P9810 Z[#26+1.] F150. (TOP OF BLOCK + 1.0) G65P9811Z#26 Q.3 #5523=[#137*1.]-.05 (G54.2P1 Z = MEASURED Z ) #5813=[#137*1.]-.05 (G54.4P1 Z = MEASURED Z ) M01 G65P9810 X#24 Y#25 Z[#26+.4] F150. G65P9812 Z[#26-.3] Y#22 R.5 (BLOCK Y DIMENSION) #5522=[#136*1.] (G54.2P1 Y = MEASURED Y CENTER ) #5812=[#136*1.] (G54.4P1 Y = MEASURED Y CENTER ) M01 G65P9812 Z[#26-.3] X#21 R.5 (BLOCK X DIMENSION) #5521=[#135*1.] (G54.2P1 X = MEASURED X CENTER ) #5811=[#135*1.] (G54.4P1 X = MEASURED X CENTER ) M01 N9000 G00G91G28Z0 G90 M01 (M99) M30

Rob I see you have a macro #162000=0. When I prob my part G54 being center of rotation how will it caculate the distance to the G54.2P1, is this were the macro comes into play?

Rob Thanks for your help, I'm going to give it a shot.

Trying to understand how Dymanic Offset works. So you know how a Variaxis works, everything works off of center of rotation. I can not change my G54, but every part is not in the same location. I would like to prob each part, but how does that work with Dymanic Offset?

We have a Mazak 630 Variaxis 5 axis machine, we are wanting to learn how use Dymanic offsets with Mastercam. Does anyone know how to go about this?

Thanks, that worked.

I cannot change the color of a solid in X5. Can you help me.

Using a desktop. Changed it over to Alt+Q and works fine.

Changed it over to Alt+Q and it works fine.

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