Sorry about the Caps in the title. Didn't mean to be yelling.

I searched for this and was not able to find a solution. If I run a 2d high speed contour with finish paths turned on, and I set it up to lead in with a ramp. It ignores the ramp. Anyone else seeing this?

We use the invert-a-bolt on many of our large aluminum parts. The precision locator versions do not work well. Locate with a pin and use the standard to hold down parts. The Material they are made of is pretty soft. Be careful installing them. They ding up real easy. Other than that we like their products.

+1 To Crazy's comment. I have found higher Material removal rates and much less warping, and...The chips come out of the machine easier.

Yes, I get that once in a while. It just fills up your ram and crashes. What I end up doing is changing the tolerance of the stock model until i get it to work. Sometimes if I cannot live with a horrible looking stock model, I will run a partial stock model and save that to a poly mesh, then create a new stock model pointing to that as stock and add more operations...piecing together poly mesh's until i get the final stock model. Yes it is slow and a PITA, but it works.

You bring up a good point Crazy. To be honest I don't use my dealer much as I found this forum much faster. I will send them off an email and see what they have to say.

It is definitely the "all on" button. I have tried turning them on one at a time and there is not an issue.

I get about 5 crashes a day while turning on all levels. I am just curious if others are seeing this same issue. I always assumed this was a hardware issue, mine is a bit outdated now. I am updating my workstation and wanted to ask here if anyone else has seen this issue, and if there was a specific hardware component that I need to include in my upgrade to eliminate this issue. Any comments would be appreciated!

+1. Locks me up a lot of the time too!

All of my 5-axis paths lately that are generating a surface have been Morph Between 2 Curves. I do not need to use it often, but it is way better than my previous attempts with older paths.

We use Icam for our TCP Makino as well. I just finished beta testing their Smartpath system for this machine as well. It works really well for rapid moves when moving the rotaries. I add 1 point at the beginning of any new tool, at the center of the table high enough to clear in Z. Then Smartpath does all the work to make sure you clear your parts and fixtures after that. Saves a lot of time working out clearance moves

I have been using a process with stock model lately (in X6 MU3) that has been a little more reliable for me. If you can get a stock model to look like you want. I have had a bit of trouble with it leaving out operations. What i have been doing is save that to a polymesh on a different level. Then delete the Stock model operation that created it. Then create a new stock model with the polymesh as my stock and I do not pick an operation from the list. It just creates a stock model that represents the polymesh you created. It works pretty well for rest milling. The stock model does not go dirty all the time when you change previous operations.

Yeah, that is what I was going to do. Thanks for checking it out.

Here is a file with the operation. Cannot get a ramp lead-in on the finish pass NO RAMP.MCX-6

I can't find any mention of this in a search. Was hoping someone could see if they have a similar issue, or perhaps know what I am missing. I am doing a dynamic contour with a 1/2 bull endmill in a closed pocket. Kind of like a re-machine after a 3/4 tool has roughed it out. I turned on finish passes in the dynamic contour operation using wear offset and a lead-in/out with the settings as you see in the picture. I cannot get a ramp lead-in or lead-out. I have tried it in X6 MU3 and X7 MU1