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Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc

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  1. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    draw a thread style point entity at the center of circle and when you chain your contour, pick thread point first and the chain contour.
  2. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    Dave, of course it doesn't have the 'live status', at that point you are already on the next entity. I use Multi-line mostly for drawing when I have the numbers I want to type in. i.e. drawing a 100mm square, hit space bar for fastpoint, type 0,0 enter, space bar, 100 enter, space bar, Y-100 enter, space bar and so on.
  3. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    the prep kit is a Mastercam product, so dealers are not allowed to sell it out of their territory
  4. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    pip, you can do it both ways. You would use the WCS system if you want one model with 2 machine groups. In fact Lathe has a WCS of World Z = Lathe Z so that is a quick way to orient most of your lathe wcs'
  5. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    can you put the file up on the ftp site so we can take a look at it?
  6. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    Eric, if you would email me over the file I'll take a look at it.
  7. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    there is another thread here on the problem. Mastercam knows about it and will address it in future release. to fix it now, in config turn autosave on. set it to a very large time interval if you don't want the system to do autosaves. turn on the prompt for file name check box.
  8. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    zDog, got the new path utility, runs and seems to work fine. Will check again/more later.
  9. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    if you are running X/X2 the txt file is not used or needed. A psb is a portion of the pst that is compiled to protect it. The pst and psb need to have the exact same name. PoSt Text PoSt Binary
  10. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    Eric, did you adjust the flute and overall lengthes of your tools?
  11. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    for this scenario, you would want to use the same CD and PST. Just have an additional MD to remove the rotary component.
  12. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    after a fresh download and instll of the MD_CD_PST Path utility I get the following error. The DLL is in the chooks folder.
  13. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    axela, with no machine def loaded in you MC, open you machine def thru 'Setting'-'Machine def manager' and use the upper left icon for 'Save as'. Save with a name to reflect that it is 3 axis only. Then delete any rotary axis components from the lower right corner list. Then save again as the 3 axis machine def. You would then have 2 machine defs that use the same post but the new one should post with no A0.
  14. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    Haas doesn't mind the A0's in the code if there is no rotary. Okumas will freak if it sees a 0 deg rotary move if no rotary in machine.
  15. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    I usually setup a second Machine Def with only 3 axis, this way one post can support the output of the 4th axis or not depending on the selected Def
  16. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    pip, like Andy says you should be using the & symbol. If mi1$ is not equal to 1 AND mi1$<>2 AND(&) so on then mi1$ = 85 if mi1$<>1 & mi1$<>2 & mi1$<>81 & mi1$<>82, mi1$ = 85
  17. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    with X or X2 you don't select posts, you select Machine Defs. X2 Mr2 removed all the machine defs from the dropdown of 'Machine type'. You need to 'Manage list' and select the machine defs you want to see. If you have already loaded a machine def and want to change it, go to the properties of the machine in the Toolpath Manager, and under the File properties, select 'Replace' to pick a new machine def.
  18. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    bump: "zDog, do you have the "MD_CD_PST Path Assignment Utility" for X2Mr2 ??"
  19. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    what post are you using? Are you using 'Ref points' in your operation?
  20. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    from the notes in the top of a generic mill-turn post, "# The right or left side view are the only legal views # for face milling. The view number 3 rotated about the X axis as a # "single axis rotation" are the only legal views for cross milling # except for axis substitution where the top view is required." So all cross milling paths are made in planes that are rotated about system X from 'view number 3' or the 'Back' plane.
  21. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    zDog, do you have the "MD_CD_PST Path Assignment Utility" for X2Mr2 ??
  22. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    you can do a Solid-Find Features and get most holes and fillets
  23. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    zDog, the default of backing up and writing the log file is not on by default. I had to turn them on in configuration. Can this utility be used to alter paths of the files also? Seems it can only rename the files, not change and update the references to the paths.
  24. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    try the Solids - Layout function
  25. Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc
    zDog, if you email me something, i'll do some testing.

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