+100000 AxisSet will get the most out of your machine. It is extremely handy when trying to find the shift between the c/l of rotation for two rotaries. Not to mention you can check the error plots and really dial in the CLR.

You only need special codes to turn option parameters on, on the older controls. This being said, there are very few parameters that the end user should be chaining. One example would be the tool change position for safe tool changes. On the NGC, parameters that were practical for users to change, were switched over to settings.

PM shorty

Make sure your reamer is not running out and add a dwell. I would also add spring passes to your pre ream interpolation. JLW hit the nail on the head with the warm up. It should simulate what conditions you are running parts at, spindle rpm, axis movements and ranges, etc. And make sure the CMM is calibrated...

If its the Haas post, there are now two different peck drilling options. Haas has a the ability to use I,J, and K for changing your peck depth. Where Q is just a constant peck depth. Use the mcam Haas post and use the standard peck drilling cycle, not the descending one. It used to be a switch in the post. Now they give you two different peck drilling options.

Never noticed that either, thank you.

Is there a way to get X+ to output tool numbers sequentially rather than by the order of the operations?

Way we used to do it was to edm up a 60 degree "broaching" tool, that had 7 or so teeth. Broach in the Y axis on an old vmc, while machining the rest of the profile. Only taking a small step down, but doing 6 teeth at once, with one tooth overlap.

Under stock update, select keep both pieces

Yea I just read your post, son of a betch. It was the next topic I looked at....

4-6 inches deep, you are entering plunging territory.

By using the enter on first depth cut only, it allows you to add or subtract spring passes on the fly, simply by adding finish passes with a zero step over.

Only for a few toggles You can do that in older versions of mcam, but requires a separate finishing toolpath. Either by using "enter onfirst depth cut only" or by "double" chaning the geometry.

2018 looks really good. I dragged my feet with 2017, but once I got used to it, I am much faster in it than in X.

I think it also requires a judgement call. How many parts are being ran, how much time am I going to shave off, how much longer is it going to add to the programming time, what's the likelihood of seeing the part again, is the tooling cost worth it? etc. Have I nitpicked tool path to make it perfect and optimized, absolutely. But, I have no problem having a less than 100% optimal program hit the machine, when it would be sitting there idle, not cutting for a week. But, I don't think contract programming has that option.

Tested it with the stock MPmaster horizontal, get it in x9 and 2017. However, the post forces a full retract between plane changes. Which is my preference. But mult-axis link should work....

You can make them the same to get one cut. -.845 min and -.845 max.

programmed with a .500 diameter endmill--> regrind measures .472 wear comp Control set for Diameter .5-.472= "wear offset"= -.028 Control set for Radius (.5-.472)/2="wear offset"= -.014 You can always use a smaller tool, but using a larger one would require having a large amount of lead in/out, which is back pedaling when talking about cycle times. However, I would not suggest changing your methods if you have a large program history of control comp programs and you don't want to update. Both methods, should not be in one shop, that is asking for trouble.

The MPmaster post that you can download on here, is setup a little bit better than the defaults that come with Mastercam. I don't believe that FANUC post has the logic for AICC and the other FANUC codes, while the MP is setup to use them in the misc integers, right out of the box. This may have changed, but I remember there were a good amount of features in the MP master, that were not in the generics. http://http://www.emastercam.com/board/files/category/5-post-processors/

Control comp, requires more lead in/out. You also can't use the edge corner radius in the contour tool path in Mastercam, while using control comp. So you have to draw your corner radi to break corner edges. Wear comp allows you to interpolate close features with a similar size endmill. Ex. finish milling a .062 hole with a .05 endmill. Wear comp gives you more control over your process end of story. It has nothing to do with state of the art machines.

No we use wear compensation. No "full" diameter or radius (depends how the control is set) value gets entered into the control, only the deviation from what it is programmed at and what it cuts at. Typically its zero.

Don't use control comp, wear comp because its not 1980

I modified one for a Haas Horizontal -MPmaster in X9 if you want it.

Not necessarily. If your change in distance is the same amount than it will have the same federate. The distance from point A to B is equal to the distance from point B to C. Having a rotary move broken in segments will yield this as long as the linear axis does not change and the angle between points is the same. MPmaster on a 4th axis will yield this and I had to change the parameter to support a modal feed-rate while using inverse. Fanuc 16i on a Matsuura. But, the majority of the time there is a feedrate on everyline, because the point to point distance is changing, therefore so is the time.

I was being facetious. But, you can use verify on multiple pieces in mcam, draw up your multiple solids for your stock on one level, then save them all as one stl with a save as. Machine sim, is nice when you have post linked to it. Otherwise, multiaxis link for a workaround.