Hey James. Could you please send that file to my work email: [email protected] Many thanks!! MF

Ditto on the editor. Don't know 'bout the bug thing. MF

Ok James. Just how does the toolpath editor work for 3D toolpath for, say, Flowline finish or Parallel finish. ...or did I detect a wee bit tone of sarcasm in that smiley face of yours? MF

Is it possible to have these 'lead in' vectors output at the programmed feed rate instead of the plunge rate? Thanks!! MF

Aaaaaagh. Ok I'm better now. Would someone please tell me what the heck is wrong here? I've made more surface fillets to a curve than I can count but this sucker just wont do it. AND ITS SIMPLE! -sorry. I put it here: ftp://www.ppcadcam.com/Mastercam_forum/MC9_files/FILLET TO A CURVE PROBLEM.MC9 Its just a chamfered edge of a cylinder that runs into a tang and it needs a .38Rad runout. Many thanks for any input...and please forgive the ranting. MF

DavidB, Most excellent! BUT. Could you please send to my work email? [email protected] Many thanks!! MF

Well, Ive been humbled. Just reading over the mi and mr statements at the top of the MPGEN5X.pst has brought me to a screetching halt in tweaking the 5axis post for a Accramatic 950. I did pretty well figuring out the tweaks I needed for the horizontal Makino cell and the Cincinatti horizontal so I'm not totally green when it comes to post 'stuff'. Can someone please define for me: Nutating (axis). Primary axis. Secondary axis. Bias. I know that I have a head-head application. I better stop there. Thanks big time for any and all help!! MF

Here, for the tight stuff, we would have a different tool come in and net that feature. MF

Michael Whitten, The control automagically applies what number is in that tools dia wear setting. Kinda like a accramatic that doesn't even need a D number. It knows what tool is in the spindle. MF

*Christian Raebild* That did it! 3 free drinks of youre choice are waiting for you in Everett,WA. MF

Like I said....I have to have D2 on ALL G41 lines no matter what tool in the spindle T4, T9, T54435 Thats why I forced the "D2" but I didn't think it would stick it on every G1, G2, G3 line. Thats where my problem is. MF

Looks like this: (I have to have all D2's no matter what tool in the spindle..for a Makino A88E horizontal cell) pccdia #Cutter Compensation #Force Dxx# if prv_cc_pos <> cc_pos & cc_pos, prv_tloffno = c9k sccomp #if cc_pos, tloffno if cc_pos, "D2"

..I need D answer. My post sticks a D on every line after the G41 like this: G03 G41 D2 Y.3663 I0. J.1382 D2 Y-.1863 I0. J-.2763 D2 Y.3663 I0. J.2763 D2 X4.3295 Y.364 I0. J-.2763 D2 X4.365 Y.09 I.0177 J-.137 G01 G40 G03 G41 D2 Y.3663 I0. J.1382 D2 Y-.1863 I0. J-.2763 D2 Y.3663 I0. J.2763 D2 X4.3295 Y.364 I0. J-.2763 D2 X4.365 Y.09 I.0177 J-.137 G01 G40..... I can't see why. Can someone please help me out? Many thanks!! MF

...kind of like Merge works? It would be nice to see an assembly of verified parts. TIA for any input!! MF

Hey Jamman, Could I get a copy of that as well. Sounds like it could be useful sometime. Pls email: [email protected] Thanks!! MF

Here's my sitcheashun: I have a part to make that requires a fair amount of tooling. I'm also making a pedestal assy (horizontal machine fixture) that has 3 different components. Doesn't sound like a big deal till this: I break my layers down by 10's. IOW layer 1-20 is all geometry, mostly for reference when I want to go look at each component. 10-20 is part op1. 20-30 is op2. 30-40 is op3 etc... I'll do this part in 5 ops. Each set of 10 has a copy of the part wire, solid, stock, along with toolpath goemetry, fixtures, shop sketches. Same kind of thing goes for all the tooling geometry and for each operation for them. The horizontal pedestal assy is 3 components total of seven progs. The part tooling is 4 components total of 8 programs. This way everything is in one file and broken down this way is easier for me to deal with. MF is

Maybe with X?

...a long shot I'm sure. Is there any way? A lot of CAD packages offer infinite layers you know. MF

Hey Pezz... ...you in Everett to? MF

Hmmm..... sounds pretty neat-o. Unfortunately, I'm not as up to speed on this end of things. Can you point me to a site that shows an ATA card and how/where the thing fits into the control? Thanks!!! MF

Ok....see where the *g_wcs is? I've done alot of other 'stuff' to our Accramatic post too. I still need to figure out how to get the W values to be incremental from the R plane..... Thanks again for the help!! pstop # Stop routine # ****DEM THIS IS WHERE THE B ROTATES DURING SAME TOOL**** pretract pcom_moveb if mi10=one, n, *sm00, e sav_absinc = absinc if wcstype > zero, absinc = zero if lock_codes = 1 & not(index) & rot_on_x, pbld, n, *sunlock, "(MSG, UNLOCK)", e pcan1, pbld, n, *sgcode, *sgabsinc, pfxout, pfyout, "Z10.", pfcout, *g_wcs, pgear, strcantext, e #**FORCE H OFFSET** if lock_codes = 1 & not(index) & rot_on_x & cuttype = 0, pbld, n, *slock, "(MSG, LOCK)", e pbld, n, pfzout, scoolant, next_tool, e sav_coolant = coolant if coolant = 1, sm09 = sm09_0 if coolant = 2, sm09 = sm09_1 if coolant = 3, sm09 = sm09_2 absinc = sav_absinc

Done!! Many thanks!!! MF

I got force_wcs turned on. My problem (other than being new to post mods), is this: First off, this is for a Accramatic control. I'm trying to get clearance moves before B indexes. Ive added a Z20. H0 before all indexes. So now on the Index line I need to have the correct offset call (H1 etc..) Thats where I'm stumped. MF

I thought I could just say *pwcs but I get errors that tell me I can't do that. Funny I can force different codes with the '*' but not the pwcs one. Can someone please help me out? Thanks!! MF

I had to create it. Just format likethe other ones.