JoshC, thats pretty much what I wanted. That's a great tool that I've never used before. I could not open your example file because of the education only, Thanks again. Just saw the pictures, appreciate the time you took to show me a couple different ways. What I originally ended up doing was creating a surface with draft turning the surface into a solid and boolean/remove the solid from the part.

I’m not sure that projecting it flat will give me the results I’m looking for. I need that hook to be on the angle that it lie’s around the cylinder…… not sure I worded that correctly. I’ll project and cut it again just to make sure.

Hi all, thanks for the help in advanced. I've rolled some flat wireframe geometry around a cylinder. I'm now trying to figure out how to extrude/cut the wireframe through the cylinder. Considering its not flat I can't just extrude. Is there an easy way of doing this? Only thing I can think of is to create lines to the center of the cylinder, find the angle and extrude cut at that angle. In the attached pic you'll see my solid and wrapped wire. Thanks again.

So I just changed that. Didn't realize that setting was for that. I'm still seeing a small gap between the insert and part. Maybe I'm being to picky? 2021-06-10_15-46-30.bmp

Just downloaded them. Will watch soon. Thank you.

Hi all, thanks for the help in advance. I downloaded our Lathe cut off tool holder and insert from the Iscar website and have been trying to make a Lathe 3D tool work. I think I am fairly close. My problem is when I backplot the insert is not making contact with the part. If I use a Lathe standard tool with the same toolpath everything looks correct. The attached file is the Lathe 3D tool making no contact and the standard tool making contact with the same toolpath. Any help or advise would be appreciated. krh - 3D Tools.mcam

Ron, Thank you. This is what I was needing. I've been in contact with my reseller. Just wanting to make sure that it was a post related problem. Hopefully they can fix me up. Ron do you mind me emailing you about something you helped me with in another topic?

I just tried that after you mentioned it and nothing happened. So if I remember correctly MR1 in the post is based off of MR6, If MR6 is disabled in the post it will look at MR1 and apply it to all toolpaths.

This is a MLC post, so my Misc. Values page is a little different. My MR6 is a Safe Z Retract and when I turn it to None it does keep the tool down during multi-passes but say I'm doing more then 1 pocket when the tool is done with the 1st pocket the tool won't return home it stays down because the Safe Z Retract is set to None.

So I tried creating a new curve 5 axis toolpath with the Safety Zone and I'm receiving the same code as I was before with the tool returning to Z0 before making the second pass. So maybe it's my post? Or my post is ignoring the safety zone? I agree about the dumb downed solid I do have one but didn't create my toolpaths off of it. The file I sent was just a small bit of what I have in it. Thank you for the help.

Hi everyone, Hoping yall can help me figure out if i'm doing something wrong or if it's my post or if I need a post modification. I’m using the toolpath Curve 5 Axis with two passes in multi-pass. For every pass it makes the tool goes home in Z “G0 G28 G91 Z0.”. Is it suppose to go home for every pass? I would think that if “Keep tool down” is not checked the tool would retract to its clearance plane and reposition for lead in and out and if “Keep tool down” is checked it would not retract to its clearance plane but stay down and reposition itself and carry on. If you open up the attached output you will see the tool going home around line 359. The attached file has 3 toolpaths within it… The 1st Operation has keep tool down checked, the 2nd Operation does not. The 3rd operation is in a different tool group and is for the pocket on the opposite side so I would expect if Operation 2 and 3 were posted out together for the tool to go home before moving to Operation 3. I am also using Swarf Milling, Morph, & Multi-axis Rough with multi-passes and depth of cuts and these toolpaths do not go home until they transition to another pocket. Thanks for the help. CURVE_5X_TOOL_RETRACT.mcam KEEP TOOL DOWN OFF.MIN KEEP TOOL DOWN ON.MIN

I'd like to let yall know that that endmill from Sandvik worked GREAT! The cut is super smooth, looks weird but very smooth. Thanks again.

I got the difference between G43.4 & G68.2 down. Now for the other stuff you explained I will probably have to read over it 10 to 20 times plus some just to wrap my mind around it. I want to say they were teaching this in one of the Emastercam lessons but I can't remember. Ron, thank you for helping me out and going in depth on how this works, I'll definitely work on it and use it.

So the machine we are running these cutters on is a Makino D500 with A and C axis and we use G43.4 mixed with G68.2...... Will axis substitution work with G43.4? or is it meant to come from exact center of pivot? I'm not exactly sure how you set up axis substitution either, I think I have to use the Xform "Roll/Unroll" function to unroll my geometry but when I do it in my main view "how the part is sitting in machine" than I get odd twisted up geometry. I can mimic what you did in the front view but am sort of lost on doing it in my base view....... I will continue working on it any hints would be great though. Also work is going to order a couple of them Sandvik Endmills that David Colin mentioned, pretty excited about this. Thanks for all the help you guys.

Thanks for sharing the information, this will be a great resource. I'll have to look up their cutters price range but I can imagine it's going to be more than what our shop will want to pay. lol. But, thanks for showing me what I should be looking for.