Hi everyone,

I know during Covid many of you may have had to adjust to different working arrangements like working from home.

I will be transitioning to WFH at the end of this year and am looking for any advice that can help me prepare for it. I am moving to a remote city due to family reasons and have agreed with the boss to stay on and work remotely. I will visit my workplace periodically, but primarily will be working from a home office.

Is there anything you have found particularly difficult/easy about working from home? Anything I should factor into my planning. Anything you would recommend I establish with my boss as part of the agreement? Thanks in advance for your help!

Uncle D

Is his depth set to incremental? He may have geometry selected which is on two separate Z depths

Yes. I tried that but when I generate the setup sheet a couple of the fields remain as it was before I changed it. I will give it another try. Another thing I am having difficulty with is the Generated Text to out put the correct information. It outputs the same label in all of the fields. I would send a shot of what I am talking about but I don't know how to attach a file. I'm still new.

 

rchipper

Just click on More reply options at the bottom of the quick reply box, then there is an option there to attach files. A picture would be handy.

Are you talking about the datafields in the attached image? Yes you can change them, just click on the text and write over it.

HTH Brendan

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X+ Discussion Thread - http://www.emastercam.com/board/index.php?showtopic=57946

Activereport Sample and Info - http://www.emastercam.com/board/index.php?showtopic=70950&hl=activereport

There is plenty of information available on this forum already regarding setup sheets. Above are 2 good links to help get you started. More info can be found if you search this forum for 'setup sheet' or 'activereport'. If you have any more specific questions let us know.

HTH Brendan

Go to Industrial Forum and right near the top there is a thread called 'Important topics, read before posting'. there is a link in here to the X+ discussion forum.

Here is a thread with many questions and discussion about the X+ Setup Sheet:

 

X+ Setup Sheet Discussion thread

If you can be more specific about the troubles that you are having with setup sheets it would make it easier for us to help you. There are a couple of tools you can use to produce good setup sheets. The one I use is Activereports which is highly customisable and can display most of the information you want. X+ is another option which is a free download. I do not use this so can't comment too much, however many mastercam users do use it and think its great. There are some activereports and other setup sheets free to download as well. Do a search for activereports if you are interested and you should find out more.

Also, probably don't need to start 2 threads about the same topic within an hour of each other. Just make one and somebody will reply if they have the information.

Hi,

Firstly, under your machine group in your operation manager, if you click on 'properties' and then 'files' it will bring up a screen with all the files you are referencing. If you click on the exclamation mark next to defaults (see image 1) it will get you into your defaults file and you can modify existing toolpaths (see image 2). To add new toolpaths to your defaults file. Create a toolpath, and once you have entered the settings you want it to default to, click the floppy disk icon in the top left to save those settings to your defaults file (see image 3). Next time you create this toolpath those settings will come in as your default and you will not get that error message.

^^^+1 This is my experience too

Ok, we can come up with something easier then. But do you think that would be a good idea?

Hi Ninja, I sorta get where you are going with this idea, but would like you to confirm. I get that there has been a fair bit of enthusiasm/hype regarding this learning group, and very little after that (myself included) I have only had time to do the idler bracket and I'm still working on the milling for project 2, haven't even looked at the bottle opener yet. I find myself keen, but struggle to come up with time to do it some weeks. So are you thinking that you want people to first share their own programming before having access to everyone else's files? This has some merit, but in this environment I'm not sure I see it as necessary. What is your thinking?

What Planes are you working with? I know with my 4 axis horizontal I need to create new back and bottom planes rotated from the top plane otherwise It will output my X movements as positive not negative.

I appreciate the responses, but I'm more after corroboration that this IS in fact a Mastercam issue. I have not closed the door on other suspects, such as our network, which was switched over to active directory within the last 6 months. That said, I have no issues saving files outside of Mastercam...CAD models, spreadsheets, etc.

 

Bobnob

Hi Bobnob and welcome to the forum.

I am running the same version as you, and I have not had this experience. Never had trouble saving/overwriting files. Typically I will open a file after saving my current file. If it asks if I want to save, and I choose yes, it prompts me for where and what filename to save to so wouldn't it be my fault if a file got overwritten? I know a lot of people had a lot of issues with the early release of MCX-6. I didn't jump on x6 til MU3 was released and I am generally happy with it. Hope you can get your problems cleared up soon!

I will turn shading off when selecting geometry quite often. However, I normally project my geometry a bit up from the part so this type of selection issue has never been a problem for me.

Where is "snap to"?

I'd imagine that would be under autocursor

For a quick selection option you can try the power select function from verisurf...depending on the surfaces you are selecting this can be very handy.

HTH Brendan

Ive done it for every version X so its pretty easy for me to recreate. First thing you do is right click in your toolbar somewhere and select 'Customize' down at the bottom. Then I create a crap ton of new drop-down menu's in the 'Drop Downs/Right mouse button menu' tab and rename them to what I want. I've always started my names with RMB - for easier tracking.

 

Once you get those sub menus setup how you want, just drag and drop them somewhere in the 'Right mouse button menu' at the top of the tab and configure how it will look every time you right click the screen. Presto! Just remember that the order you put stuff in the right mouse button menu is exactly how it will appear when you right click in the screen. So make sure you get everything in the order you want.

Thanks for the info gms1. Will have to look into that!

It does look like you are using surfaces there to me also. Your best bet would be to go into the create menu, go down to surfaces, and select trim surfaces to surfaces, and you should be able to trim those cylinders to your angled faces.

HTH Brendan

Here you sir.

Thanks Jay! That's exactly what I was looking for!

Hi Everyone,

Just wondering if anybody is aware of how to change default import options for certain filetypes. (see attached image) What I want is for mastercam to bring solidworks files in with edge curves as a default. I can set this option when I import, but it doesn't stick when I exit and reopen mastercam. Using X6MU3. Pretty sure it was defaulted to bring in the curves in X5.

Brendan

Sir,

How did you get the comments to display? Was this from a manual entry on the tree or another source?

Ty in advance.

This is through Manual Entry comments in your Operations Manager. Did you end up getting that activereport from the ftp to see an example of how it works?

Brendan

I quite like the look of yours MCM, the pull out menu's are pretty cool. Here is mine, quite long but it works well for me

I just started a new job that uses MIKRON HSM 400U LP Machining centers. Cool machines BTW. It has a Heidenhain iTNC 530 control. This control might as well be set-up in Arabic as there are very few similarities to a Fanuc. The Heidenhain website is hideous to navigate. What I'm looking for is forums, websites, videos, tips & tricks info, anything in English to get me going with the control and probing. ANYTHING would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance, MCM.

Hi MCM,

From my experience, the Heidenhein manual that comes with that control is fairly comprehensive with lots of good info. Do you have access to that?

This is all good advice. I'm sure most of the users on here have experienced this issue. I find you get it more if you prompt for NC file name at the start of a program rather than programming with the default and renaming upon posting. also when you import ops and copy between groups this becomes more prevalent. And as soon as you select a group of operations, and change the nc filename for that group, if you create any more operations, you will have to rename the whole group again in order to post properly.

I have also not figured out on how to get the manual entry to output from the operations manager in the setup sheet, I use this for set-up information.

The activereport I uploaded to the ftp uses manual entry and output to front page of setup sheet. You could look at that and use it as a reference.

Brendan

Yes, exactly. When i making setup sheet, i just choose "Z on top" for example, only thing i have to type everytime is project/product name.

That's great! Very similar to the way I've got mine rigged up. Makes life easier having those drop down options to select from

Hello dolan,

 

I haven't had a chance to give it a look yet but I will soon as possible.

Last month I was a temp. setup machinist on night shift. But then the shop got sold, the principals got fired and I became shop manager/program for eight machinist.

I'm sooo over my head and think there asking too much...but if I can pull it off...

My prior experience is a prototype machinist out of my garage so setup sheets for other people is new to me.

 

Thanks for the help and I'll be back soon,

Barry

Sounds like you've got a fun time ahead of you! Any help you need with the setup sheet just give me a yell. more than happy to help you out!