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You guys are both pretty awesome. All our fixture designs our handled by our Product Design engineering department,aka "PD's" . From there the prints are sent to our tool room where the fixtures are built. We the programmers write the program to machine the part. This all culminates on the floor where the part is machined. I brought your observations to the toolmakers on Saturday. I did give credit where due. I said "two guys from emastercam.com have been helping me with this have said it will not work", I got a weird looking eyebrow raise..hehehe, man I could not help but laugh which just made them look at me more weirdly. Anyways, without telling them the reason you said it would not work they looked at it and said exactly the same. It was much more colorful as you may imagine. lol. I hope I did not create a situation they already have great dislike for what they call the "college kids" in product design. I will work on it more and report back. Thank you
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I am so thankful to you for your response. Even that information you shared has cleared up questions I have had. If others are so helpful I think I will feel very good about my chances. Hmm, I downloaded it from the site and it opened on my end. I wonder what it could be. Maybe I should send it in MC2020 as well. Here you go can you open it now? Complete assembled table and 5 axis jaws with part.zip
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This is a disaster or this is a great opportunity. I hope it's the latter. I have the solid of the table, trunnion, vise and fixture as well as the solid model of the part to program and the prepped stock that will be used and assembled. I have heard you must find the table to trunnion center line first which I did (7.0866) Next I find the stack up which is your vise+fixture+part but that is built/generated in the post, correct? Now the questions I have and and the answers I am looking for. I have 2021 but an older version with example is fine. How do I proceed in Mastercam? Where do I set my work coordinate? What paths should I use? I have been reading up on 3D solids selection and toolpathing but i'm still having issues. I know I am on repeat here but if I someone could get me started and return their examples. I believe I can plow through. I don't want to go off site and have to pay a design house to do it for me. For that matter I don't have the money to do it if I wanted to. Thanks fellas I am going to repost this here so if you can't help me someone else may be able to. Complete_assembled_table_and_5_axis_jaws_with_part.mcam
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Thank you Fellas for the replies. I have not had a chance to sit down and even start working on this project. I work in medical manufacturing and the amount of paperwork is nothing close to what I have seen. This weekend will be dedicated to doing that. If anyone would be so kind to send some email me some examples that mirror the part I have sent I will sign songs about you. heck I'll even post a video of me signing songs about you!
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Okay thank you. I will do my best to get something to you in a couple of days. Can you tell me where I may be able to find some files for something with this type of shape like a football or something? If I can find a example like that I think it would help as far as what tool paths to use. Thank you sir.
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Thank you so very much for you offer. I have attached the files from solid works I have not yet grabbed them with Mastercam 2021 This is part will be run in our 5-axis Mazak M430. Until now I have just been programming for 2D in our 3-axis machining centers. One of our programmers in the 5-axis department has left to take a position elsewhere. This is my chance I don't want to mess it up. That said I realize I need to learn so much more about 5-axis and even dynamic milling. The fact is a guy is so busy doing his current job where do you get the time to practice(learn). If I only had something to follow along with some guidance I am dedicated to putting any time that is needed. They are securing this part to a block with a socket head cap screw. Thank you and please if you can email me any examples I will sign your praises non stop 81107947.SLDPRT 81107947_TURNED.SLDPRT P81107947.SLDASM P81107947-1.SLDPRT P81107947-2.SLDASM
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I will try to send something this afternoon. Thank you very much for your response and help.
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The material, SFPM, IPM and tools are irrelevant. My issue is chaining a solid model using avoidance, air, and machining regions. I cannot get it to pick correctly.
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I am having a terrible time using the Dynamic Milling tool path. I have tried to watch several tutorial but I do not have the solid model they are using. Can someone please let me know where I can find a good tutorial I can follow along with or have any guidance they could offer? Thanks Efriends
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Thanks much CGI. I believe you have given me a clear path now I just have to be able to complete it. Before your answer I was going to try 3 different things which may have turned into a huge waste of time. To be clear, your saying adjust my cut off as needed depending where I want my remnant to end. I do have a parts ejector on the sub but it may not matter if I can eject the remnant on the main. To do that I would have to be able to activate the bar feeder at that point and have it load the new bar with the idea that they may not work together so why waste the time trying. Okay, here I go. If you have anymore suggestions please send them and thanks again. -
I have a similar question. We have a Mazak SQT 250MSY Smooth Control and we want to use an ATS ML-680 bar feeder. Previously, I had one 4' bar placed in the spindle. After the main spindle work was completed I preformed a POCO, pulling the bar out with the subspindle, syncing the spindles, Parting off the piece. Then the second half is machine to completion on the sub side. Doing it this way I have a problem with leaving a remnant in the main or an extra long piece in the sub. At this time I don't know how to interface the feeder and the machine. I have several emails out to Mazak and ATS. Until then I worry that as it is now programmed will I have a problem getting the subspindle and the bar feeder working together. I wonder if I need to abandon this idea? I will report back if I get some assistance from Mazak. Thanks
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Hello Sir, I too want to create a mastercam Library from an excel spread sheet. Based off your convo way back in 2008 it is possible. Though it looks like that was X2 we have 2019 and I hoping you can talk(text) me through that. Thanks
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Thank you for the help. I will test it out first thing Monday and let you know if I succeed or totally mess it up. Have a great weekend.
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We have a complete data base of all our tooling in the form of an excel workbook. Is there any way I can pull this information into Master cam 2019 to create a tool library? Thank you
