Roger, Thanks, Doug

I am creating a flowline toolpath round a boss with a hemisphere as check surf. It creates the toolpath but gives an error message when I try to backplot: The following operation has an invalid arc: #3 surface flowline mark invalid arc endpoint. Clicking on the invalid arc dialog causes latest version of MasterCam to crash every time. Is anyone else getting this? Doug Gabbey x2 latest updates

One good reason. When adjusting wear comp you are usually adding or subtracting a few thou from the basic setting of zero. More difficult to create a large error. If you are using half the cutter Dia. and screw up the comp change may be great enough to scrap the part. The tool path generally runs better with fewer comp problems with wear. My 2c Doug

Thanks John, Doug

Hijack!!! John, How did you change the color of the toolpath manager background? Best regards, Doug

John, Changed and working perfectly. Best regards, Doug

John, It works!!!!!! I have printed out a comparison of the changes you made for study. I don't understand why the fed120 (Line 369 in the post) is commented out but sav_mr3 : 0 is defined The only problem left is it rounds up the feedrate from say 3.5 to 4. but I am assuming that is to do with the formatting. If I have 0 in mr3 in the operation it does not output f#120 which is correct. Thanks a lot for the help, this will encourage me to get further out of my depth!! Best regards, Doug

Craig, That did not help, it already puts the #120= into the nc code, it just does not output the value (7.) Thanks for trying, Doug

John, Just manual edits. Doug

John, I want to make fed120 equal to the feedrate for that op. E.G. mr3 is set to 7. and the feed is set to 7. it would output f#120=7 and then if the feedrate is output several times in the operation I edit the F7.0 in the nc code to f#120 and the operator only has to change the feed in one place at the start of the op. That is the theory anyway. Thanks, Doug

I have this under Misc Variables But it still does not work. fed120 : 0 I have 120 showing in the mr3 position instead of 3. (I have renamed mr3 to 120 in control def text page.) Is this correct? Thanks for the help and explanation. Doug

Please can someone tell me why the fed120$ won't output the contents of mr3 (7 in the Misc reals page) Thanks in advance. Doug ptlchg_com #Tool change common blocks ~ ~ "/M8",e$ sav_mr3$ = mr3$ fed120$ = sav_mr3$, e$ if sav_mr3$ > 0, pbld, "#120=", no_spc$, fed120$, e$ pcom_movea G0 G90 G54 G40 X-1.95 Y-.1 S1069 M3 ( MAX - Z0. ) ( MIN - Z-1.5 ) G43 H1 Z0. /M8 #120= (no output<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<) G0 Z-.9 G1 Z-1.1 F15. M98 H2005

Chris, Thanks for the reply and email. Best regards, Doug

I am just "bumping" it up to the top again as nobody at CNCSoftware has reponded to this or to emails to Mark and [email protected]. I think after nearly a year it is not unreasonable to expect it to be fixed. Best regardDoug

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Paul, Read my post 4th from the top. It always puts in some type of arc going from center start point to beginning of first thread. We want it to go G1 to start of first thread and then make 360 degree cuts until it finishes. It is the start up and end moves we don't want. It appears to offer this in the menu but it does not work!. Doug

HELLO, ANYBODY AT CNC SOFTWARE READING HERE THIS WEEK? I thought I would try "shouting" to attract someone's attention. Doug

I am still hoping someone at CNC Software will comment on this bug. Doug

Mark, People are still complaining about this on the emastercam forum. See thread milling problems on 3/28/07 Any progress yet? Best regards, Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Baker To: Metalore Inc. Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:04 PM Subject: RE: PERPENDICULAR ENTRY FROM CENTER IN THREAD MILLING Doug, I’ve logged it as bug 20229. If you find any other problems let me know. Mark B Application Engineer CNC Software, Inc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Metalore Inc. Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:33 PM To: Mark Baker Subject: Re: PERPENDICULAR ENTRY FROM CENTER IN THREAD MILLING Mark, I'm glad I made it clear. I see what you have done and that works better but as you say it looks like a bug. Can I get a bug report number so that I can track it? Hope it gets fixed soon and thanks for taking a look at it. Best regards, Doug

I think he wants to start in the center, go straight to the start of the thread without any @#$*$ arcs and start full revolutions until it is finished and the go straight to the center without any @#$*$ arcs. I reported this last year and was told it was a bug. It appears it is still not fixed. I wish they would fix it too. Doug

I could never get this to work right and it was logged as a bug last April. See below Doug, I’ve logged it as bug 20229. If you find any other problems let me know. Mark B Application Engineer CNC Software, Inc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Metalore Inc. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:33 PM To: Mark Baker Subject: Re: PERPENDICULAR ENTRY FROM CENTER IN THREAD MILLING Mark, I'm glad I made it clear. I see what you have done and that works better but as you say it looks like a bug. Can I get a bug report number so that I can track it? Hope it gets fixed soon and thanks for taking a look at it. Best regards, Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Baker To: Metalore Inc. Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:27 AM Subject: RE: PERPENDICULAR ENTRY FROM CENTER IN THREAD MILLING Doug, I see what your trying to do. Its not the “arc entry” that’s giving you the trouble, it’s the angle that your trying to maintain. So by typing in “A0” and starting from the Bottom to Top the toolpath should go in at A0 and not A270 like in the current toolpath. It looks like I’ll have to write this up as a bug. I think I have a work around, with the “helix entry” turned on and an “A90” value entered (should be A0), isn’t that giving you the toolpath that your looking for? We’ll be getting an “helical entry” move but its at the same pitch so the only thing that is wrong in the entry angle. I’ll go ahead and log this as a bug. Mark B Application Engineer CNC Software -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Metalore Inc. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:12 AM To: Applications Inbox Subject: Re: PERPENDICULAR ENTRY FROM CENTER IN THREAD MILLING Mark I am trying to make a straight line entry from the center of the arc to the start of the circle (A0) WITHOUT an on and off arc OR AN ON OR OFF HELIX and the same at the exit. At the end I want it to go to the center without any arc or helix moves. You have helical entry and exit set so you don't get arcs, you get helical moves. If you turn off helical entry and exit you will see the 90 deg arcs I am talking about. There is an option for perpendicular entry, I thought it would generate what I described in the first line but I still get arcs at the entry and exit. If you want to phone me my number is: XXX-XXX-XXX or if you send your phone number I can call you. Regards, Doug Gabbey

I would have agreed with gcode until last summer but Predator has a new guy working on Tech Support called Frank Bakenau. He is making a big difference and while he has not yet resolved all my problems he has helped me a lot and does follow through on problems. I would suggest trying them and see if they have a reverse post that already suits your needs or only needs minor mods.

Does anyone have Predator running a Deckel DMU80T 5 axis.? If so I would like to talk to them about it. Regards, Doug

Yes, it is a problem. The first stl file I opened was it D:mcam9data and it goes there every time to look for stl stock files. It also does not remember the stock stl file name after I close it down. Then the next time I go to this file I have to reselect the MCAMXdata directory and reselect the file again. I hope some of the good guys (stroke, stroke) at CNC software chime in on this one!. Doug

Lou, How did you keymap it to F11 in X? Doug