Thanks John I will check out the tutorial.

Thanks for the friendly advice. V9. The way that I did it I do not get any blue lines.

Thad, I do change them on the T/C planes page, that is when all of the z values adjust.

I set the new wcs to -2.00 so I can get a good verify for all setups.

ok, I have a 2" thick block and I want to work from the bottom side first. I set up a new wcs as a copy of the bottom wcs -2.00 in Z. I set my Tplane and Cplane to the new wcs. I spot and drill some holes thru. Now I want to work on the top side. I want to csink the holes that were drilled thru by copying the spot drill ops and changing the tplane and cplane to the top. When I do this all of the z values change relative to the original plane. I am sure there is a way of doing this so as to not loose my z values. Thanks Kevin

Got it. Thanks guys

Ok I have started useing multiple wcs for different faces of a part in order to get a good verify on all faces. If there are operations in the first setup that I want to use in the second setup how do I copy the operations using another WCS.

Correct Mr. Psyco

An example of what I am trying to do. A .560 wide X 2.00 long slot thru 1.500 stock. Using a .500 endmill. Plunge down, slide over .1 plunge again slide over .1 .... I do not want to ramp I want to rough plunge the slot and then contour to finish. I can not use the slot function because the geometry varies.

Where is your lazy tricks?

chop out a slot with the bottom of an endmill.

Is there a way to chop a toolpath or pocket like surface,rough,plunge. With out using any surfaces, or having to define each point?

Is there a way of converting a solid to a wire frame of lines arcs and splines. Kevin Prodoehl

Here here all sports are alive and well at the youth level. With the enthusiasum of the players and fans at the high school level. Ill save the $150. and enjoy a high school game in any sport.

Sorry to bore the non-hockey fans, and I am sure to upset the Canadians on the forum but I feel impelled to say something. I am 43 years young and have been a hockey fan all my life, have played it and now have a son that plays it. The right team won. Unfortunately for the game the Lightning represented good and the Flames bad. The Flames throughout the series chose to at times use illegal hits and elbows to try and take players off their game or out of the game. These players have been playing the game for a long time and know what they are doing when they take these actions, there is no excuse. The finals provided some exciting hockey by some exciting players, (Igilna, StLouis, Khabibulin, and Kiprusoff), and I hope the league realizes the good guys won.

Ron, it looks like it was a problem with helical interpolation. As allways I should have looked a little harder before posting. Kevin

Thanks Ron Allways trying to be good for something despite what my wife thinks. Kevin

I checked the code again and the gouge is right at 6 O'clock where it is changing quadrants. Kevin

The thing is, is that it never outputs a G02 or G03, it makes the plane change about 5 lines before the gouge move and still outputs a G01 at the quadrant (gouge move). Kevin

I seem to be having a post problem. I am machining a pronounced fillet surface on an oval boss. I am using finish radial to create the tool path. It machines the radius fine up until it gets near the 6 o’clock position. At that point my post outputs G19, G18, G17 plane changes and gouges the part on what seems to be the pass directly on the 90 deg. Quadrant. Two things strike me as odd one being that it gouges the part when the verify runs fine the other is that it is outputting plane changes when all that it is cutting is point to point. I changed the program to use finish flow path and machined the part, but I still would like to know why Radial did not work? Kevin

Thanks guys unfortunatly I don't have the time for any of these options. Kevin

I have a to program a spiral plate for a 3 jaw chuck. When I use mastercam's spiral function I get a spline. The problem that I have is when I code the program I get point-to-point moves. I have tried to use the convert to arcs function and it just tells me that no splines were converted. The tolerances on this part are rather tight so the tolerance for the convert to arcs is set at .0004. I really do not want to have to deal with a huge program if I don’t have to. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Kevin

Sorry to keep bothering you guy on this but here is the thing. I downloaded Roger's post and ran it with out touching it and I get the same error. Acording to Avs_fan when he ran them they coded fine? I think the problem might be some where else.

Thanks again to all involved but I seem to be the only one that still hasn't figured it out. I get a variable error when I run the posts that Roger provided. "Variable not defined: comm_cnt Post line number 742 Program execution halted due to error(s) in .pst" I am not sure what to do now, I seems that Avs_fan does not have the same problems that I have.

Thanks for all of the help guys. I do not have the time to work on it today but will try it all tomorrow. Kevin