cool, I guess it's safe to say you are busy.

Dylskee your back to M.C.? I thought you went back to gibbscam.

All of the 5-axis work I have done has alot of code as well and I never could filter my program. I was using a custom post from in house as well, and was also using inverse time. If you figure out how to do it without a post mod. please let me know.

In mastercam you must only draw 1/2 of the tool. I always draw the right side, but I'm not sure if it matters. There also must not be any other geometry on the level. When you select undefined tool select the level your geometry is on.

I created a form tool and it shows up in backplot, but not in verify. Anyone had this problem?

That's ok. Everyone has there preference, my hole point is that is does what you tell it to do without any B.S. workarounds.

Your right. I haven't done much helping. Why do you have to get all personal and use my name? I'm not sure who you. It's apparent you know who I am.

+1

I forgot to mention I did the same impeller in gibbs with fixtures on the same crappy laptop out of curiosity. The toolpaths being generated were much faster and the verify which shows RAPID MOVES only took 20 minutes.

My crappy laptop handles large part files with multiple solid models, fixture clamps, ect...no problem, I tried to run verify on one single small impeller and mastercam took like 3 hours to verify. There is no comparison when it comes to solids or assemblies for that matter. I use both systems on a daily basis. I know people have preferences, but mastercam is so far behined in the solid world it's not even funny

You can do the same in gibbscam. You just need to know were to look. In the advanced settings you can do anything you can in MC. The best part is it works with no glitches. It has fixture recognition in rendering. I still can't believe MC doesn't have this.

Thanks for all your help guys. I finally got a 5-axis curve toolpath and just dry ran it and it looks good.

It's on the ftp site, x5 folder called e420.

Yes this is a thread and has to start at certain spot. Just run the verify and you can see what I'm doing ( It takes a few minutes due to the thread ). Mazak confirmed this is a post issue. I couldn't get a five axis toolpath to work, but I didn't spend to much time due to all my other projects. The boss just wants the post fixed. I have a bit of time now so I will try to run a few more 5-axis tool paths.

I bought gibbs for contract work, but I still use mastercam at my day job.

If I don't use G43.4 the machine doesn't know the B-axis rotated. So, should I make it G43 and manually add the G68 and then do as you say?

Yes I want to follow the helix around the part. The file I posted is what I want. It looks like the feed rate calculation in the G91 is incorrect.

I just put the Jpeg of the program in the ftp with the file. I'm not sure how many are using the multi-axis E420 if any, but I thought I would take a stab in the dark.

I have this part that is hot. Friday when I went to run it the machine didn't recognize the plane change and was lost. I figured out that problem. The post was not putting a G68 which I turned on in the mis. values. I made the G43 a G43.4 and now the machine accounts for the plane rotation. When I run the program everything looks good until I hit the G91 incremental mode. The postion page on the machine shows all axis moving, but the machine doesn't appear to be moving. I know this is a post problem but In house solutions is closed and my machine is setting. Could someone post the last two ops of the file? Any suggestions of a work around? I tried a 5-axis curve tool path and had no luck I put the file on the ftp site in the x5 files called E420. For some reason I saying my jpeg of the program is to large to upload ( 215 KB ) not sure about that.

Absolutely dude. Half of the people on this forum have no idea.

I know how he feels. I'm at 1 year with M.C. so I have learned alot of the workarounds. However, I was ready to quit this job due to my frustrations with this software.

Thanks. I just created a new view for hole three, then had to reverse holes 1 and 2, and 4 and five in the toolpath planes. It wasn't as bad as I thought. My boss wants to run this today and I kinda panicked since there is 40 something toolpaths. I got it.

Good morning. I have this part I just finished programming and the boss decided to change how he wants to fixture the part. Op#5 on the rotary he wants to rotate the part 180 deg. Basically I want the left side of the part on the right side. However, I have 8 different planes created is there an easy way to do this? I can't just rotate the geometry 180 an regen because all of the plane will be backwards. I uploaded the file to the ftp site called planes.

Thanks. That works great. I don't use X+ much and didn't see you can add these iteams. This is going to save me alot of time.