nope, upgrade from the CimcoEdit Lite has math functions.

Erik, can you put out a STEP(stp) file? How about a Parasolid(x_t) file? Send me what you can, igs, st, x_t, and I'll check into the Level issues.

can you post up some samples of code?

engrave is mostly for that chisled cut wood sign like cutting. It rides a tapered tool up and out of the corners of letters/shapes to get that sharp cornered look. Your Pirelli looks more like Multisurf 5 Axis contained to the letter shape.

Ray, somewhat along heavy's line, but make sure that you single block thru completely any machine macros. in other words an M6 is a macro that does a bunch of thing so you need to single block a number of time to get thru the tool change.

are you asking about 'healing' a solid body??

the Mastercam install has multi-axis samples

in X2, go to Settings, Run User Application, and select the file UpdatePST.dll.

Believe these are the ones you want, from the Mastercam Mazak Integrex post. # B251 = -1000000 Cancel sub-spindle barrier # B254 = -1000000 Cancel tail stock barrier

we do all our installs now using the direct TCP/IP. That was part of my reason for the question.

Mick, enlighten the world to what the problem was.

the full install is 2 CD's, CD2 has the optional pieces.

have you seen these? web page

thad, I took a look at your mcx file. That surface file can not be converted into a valid solid. You have surface skins over the holes. To have any chance of becoming a solid, you need to remove the holes entirely, not just cover them up.

thad, you can save it as a parasolid(x_t) file and then open that into UG

sounds like it is outputing the helix's as full 360 rotations, BUT post was not setup to do that. Go into the Control Def and set Arcs to break at 180 or quadrants

neurosis, what i would do is select the locations by arc size, then edit the geometry of the op to set the different depthes, then sort the geometry in a better order

Glenn, seems to be a problem with renaming the beginning of the exe name. Cimcoedit5.exe seems to work fine, V5Cimcoedit.exe doesn't work.

Doug, we had a customer with the same problem. I had him download the latest version from the Cimco site and install it into his Mastercam /common/editors/ location and that solved his problem [ 02-18-2008, 11:43 AM: Message edited by: Steve Biehl - Services 4 Automation ]

the Mastercam generic Haas Trunnion post is set for an A axis tilt and B axis rotary. you can change it in this part of the post. code: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 5 Axis Rotary Settings # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Assign axis address str_pri_axis "B" str_sec_axis "A" str_dum_axis "C" Change the primary address to A and secondary to B.

Bob, your's is set odd, the norm is like Chuck says.

they look funny with the small tires don't they?

the generic fanuc post has multiple setups for date/time. code: pheader$ #Call before start of file "%", e$ sav_spc = spaces$ spaces$ = 0 *progno$, sopen_prn, sprogname$, sclose_prn, e$ #sopen_prn, "PROGRAM NAME - ", sprogname$, sclose_prn, e$ sopen_prn, "DATE=DD-MM-YY - ", date$, " TIME=HH:MM - ", time$, sclose_prn, e$ #Date and time output Ex. 12-02-05 15:52 #sopen_prn, "DATE - ", month$, "-", day$, "-", year$, sclose_prn, e$ #Date output as month,day,year - Ex. 02-12-05 #sopen_prn, "DATE - ", *smonth, " ", day$, " ", *year2, sclose_prn, e$ #Date output as month,day,year - Ex. Feb. 12 2005 #sopen_prn, "TIME - ", time$, sclose_prn, e$ #24 hour time output - Ex. 15:52 #sopen_prn, "TIME - ", ptime sclose_prn, e$ #12 hour time output 3:52 PM you would comment out the current one, put a # sign in front of it, and remove the # sign from the one you want. You will also need to format the variables to get it to come out like you want. I usually use; code: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- fmt 4 month$ fmt 4 day$ fmt 5 year$ fmt 4 year2 #Calculated year value

the [CTRL_TEXT_END] should be only at the very end of the post.

to create tool path off a solid body, the body must be symmetrical across the rotation axis. Sometimes you can rotate the body to get it symmetrical. You can also do like Jake says, Create-Curve-Slice and create your own cross section.