anyone care to explain what a boolean surface is?

Indeed... Colin, Ron, and the crew have been so helpful in figuring out simple or complex problems!

I believe Harvey tool just released some new tools for something similar to this, so that you could use Contour with cutter comp to the inside of the chain perhaps. EDIT: nevermind, I misunderstood what you meant...carry on!

Thank you, that is a great resource to have available.

I discovered the method of creation.... trek.nasa.gov has the full moon map and this allows you to export STL or OBJ models...I am gathering I need a specific piece of software to create a clean mesh, but maybe not. Something like RapidWorks https://www.dropbox.com/s/jdm2fmycpmmmlun/de_Gerlache_100_3_alt.SLDPRT?dl=0

want to pm me your dropbox? I can share the Solidworks model since I have a .emcam license

I have this curious project to be made from acrylic...and maybe my customer's incoming model is not ideal for such a thing, but has anyone ever done surfacing of the Moon's surface topography before? They customer got this from getting at NASA scanning data of the topography but I am not sure if they did it right, or even how they did it. Its bogging the crap out of my system and causing crashes left and right, not to mention the striated surfaces that aren't stitched at all. I would share the file but it is about 50MB, so here is a screenshot of what I mean. You can see the lag of the selection window when I did a Snip. Any alternative ideas or models?

I understand that first part...been modelling and saving my tools for future use...finding certain radii on my old tools can be a pain tho. Having the exact physical tool correctly shown in mastercam lathe seems to be much more critical than mill. Like i said, I started as a mill guy so I am hopping onto the lathe bandwagon late. Have made some good parts but I am by no means a "lathe guy" yet. Thank you for the help!

so then do you use center of radius compensation at the machine, or do you simply use the edge on X and Z? thank you

That works, thanks Colin. Im not very much of a lathe person.

How do you guys typically compensate your lathe tools? What benefit would setting to the corner have over doing the center of the radius of the insert? Im mainly a mill guy so I am trying to get a grasp of the preferred practices. Thanks

I would upload a screenshot but Emastercam is not allowing it

Hey all, Im having trouble saving custom lathe tools to my specific LATHE-MASTER tool library...everytime i try to do it from the toolpath manager, it asks if i want to overwrite my tool database. Am I missing something? I have done this plenty in the past, but I have since forgotten how to proceed. Thank you in advance

Interesting. In your example am I to assume you are not using TCPC or similar programming methods? Thanks

From what I can gather a tooling ball is useful when 5x isn't available or practical, like in picking up strange compound angle hole locations on a sine plate?

thanks for that!

Thanks Ron, will give it a whirl.

This may be a noob question, but I just got some Harvey double angle cutters for back deburring i want to try out. Lets just assume for simplicity's sake I want to back deburr a .5" hole with a 3/8" back deburr tool. Also for simplicity's sake, these are flat bottomed parts, no 3D stuff. What would you suggest as a toolpath? Use a contour and fudge the numbers? I have the tool drawn and modeled already. Thank you in advance.

youre gonna love the new 2020 chaining dialogue lol

nothing wrong with wanting to learn more! Ive been working hard at learning simultaneous 5 axis stuff. The more i learn, the more i realize i dont know. I would highly, highly recommend video trainings like eapprentice.com as well as **** Books never worked well for me. Colin, Derek, and the others at eapprentice.com are extremely knowledgeable Mastercam users.

Nevermind, it magically fixed itself. Mods feel free to delete

So I am proofing my part in Vericut, and it is throwing out of limit on A axis errors. This is a trunnion machine using a ModuleWorks Swarf tool path.. Question is, my post knows that -110degA is the max limit...so where can I adjust to tool tilt to relink/adjust the motion that is causing issues? Tool axis control in the Swarf Milling has not adjustments 1319.emcam

Thanks!

@5th Axis CGIwhat if all I see in my CD is this??