.cam files are only allowed to be of a certain size in "program events" (can't remember what it is right now)

also try not to use clearance or retract heights

this seem's to be too much for the control to be able to translate to its own mx3 form

Did you try reading loading the program from a floppy??

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Thank's Mayday

We were missing the ~ sign now the control reads the cycle .Our post is using different statements just have to work back using your code. Hopefully

this will resolve it.

Can anyone explain how to set this one up on the machine ?

I have a circular block sitting on top of a controlled rotary table " A ". I need to drill 14 equally pitched holes in the side of this block at 59 degrees using a controlled indexing head " B "

I have worked out the positions for the top dead center of these holes looking down on top of the part from a top view.

(If the company I worked for would fork out for the post then I wouldn't be stuck right now.)

if its a 426 control use feed auto for your feedrate. Define "tool cal1 1 z s1000 f1000 "

this way all ou have to do is change the feedrate at the toolcall line

Yep ,have to agree does what it says on the box .I still have the big cheesy grin love the new control you have with pocketing lead in/out

Our shop uses vericut has 2 seats of mastercam

9,1 and 1 seat of Catia. We have Vericut 5.2 and have just purchased the Mastercam to vericut interface which asks you for either the nci file or the nc file (In your case this will be a .H

file) when it is transfering the code over along with your tool defs You can then specify a stock file either using an stl file or iges file and you can also compare it with the original model to check for gouges ,missed operations etc.

Ps. the Heidenhain Tnc 430 is one of my favourite controls very powerful

Just posted a sample of our tool libary to cadcam's ftp site (matl. and tools lib. ).Its fairly detailed but the machine that it's for cost over £1,000,000( uk pounds ) cant afford to make a mistake !

Aircraft seat legs for refitting of Boeing 747 on a matsuura horizontal .Lots of holes at all sorts of angles 18 min cycle times stock size 20" * 14" 1.5" thick roughing cuts 25mm wide 25mm deep feedrate 5000mm/min .( scary !!! )

[ 04-12-2003, 07:06 AM: Message edited by: Brian G Scullion ]

Thank's Rick I shall certainly try this .

Appreciate the quick response. The folder with the defined tools drawn sounds along the right lines that our company will follow.

At our company we have the vericut to mastercam interface. It automatically brings in either the NCI file or the g&m code tne stock and the tool definition.

Question how do I build up the tool and specify the back end geometry .So that I can verify that the holder will not crash ?

The components I am machining are five axis parts

After recently going on a mastercam training course .I was instructed that as a general rule either work in incremental or absolute but try to avoid mixing these up . So says the cad/cam guy.

( this may or may not help you all situations are different.)

the post you are using is in the EIA g-code format you have to assign a number for the program name to get it to post properly.

try taking a look at the baud rate settings on the machine control and on the editor perhaps you can increase these I have seen this problem on Heidenhain controls if the value is set too low we use 57000 kps when we are drip feeding large programs with relatively small moves

I take it you are refering to the bridgeport interact models . if you are I think the difference is in the control ie. from tnc 151 to tnc 155 etc. also there is some changes regarding hydraulic systems

cadcam's ftp site listed above has a sw2003 converter for mastercam 9