The only way I see is to create 3 different toolpaths with starting angles at 0, 120 and 240. ````````````````````````````````` I wouid make 3 diff toolpathes with 3 diff starting heights(every height diffs from the next by pitch\3) HTH

I am old school guy I always move part and prefer to have wcs TCP I always prefer to be straightforward and as simple as possible

I wonder what is your trim to stock settings ?

I did what Teh Bear suggested. Now it states I have dirty, invalid or suppressed operations. I regenerated solids and still get this message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Move your operation after counterbore filling and make unsuppress Now regen. I never do this way much faster to make solid cut it with surface and boolian add I only show it is possible in X7 In most cases it is not even nessesary Enough to cover hole with surfaces and it can be done with a lot of ways and fast

yOU CAN DO IT IN x7 too Use find feature command make operation for the fillet that runs through counterbore. Now suppress the fillet You will be able to fill counterbore HTH

I hear Cimmitron is good for molds ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes ,it is It simply rocks . Mold design is splendid fast and very easy Hybrid modeling is cool Drawings ,dimensioning great Assebling too I would say for something as molds Cimatron is better than Solidworks without any doubt But When I used it for NC what can I say Only true Cimatron fans can say machining in Cimatron is cool . Ugly at least but still I used it couple of years with good results . This is my 5 agarots BR

it may depends of how your 5 axis postprocessor is written . Some postprocessors may recalculate coordinates . My postprocessors that I used or use were of different kinds in some you need to place your part in real place in space so coordinates of NC that what I saw in backplot Some used functions to recalculate coordinates according to the part in space placement so coords differed from the NC By the way I prefer to use backplot for checking 5 axis toolpath and use verify only for visual check Backplot is more useful in my humble oppinion BR

i do copy geometry between sessions With this I have no issues how do you copy geometry between sessions? select geometry cntrl+c cntrl+v BR

there is always a dilemma to keep all your stuff in one file with lots of toolgroops ucs parts and so on or to be simple i do it not simple only if there is no other way with been complex i Also had issues. I prefere to be as siimple as posssible Now If the time of programming and running the part may have 10 minutes difference and there is no t ime+for licking the program you need to keep opened lot of sessions simultaneosly I have no other way More than one machine plus EDM and WireEdm . That`s it I can not open files every minute or close just to have 2-3 sessions i have at least ten I do it not from obstinity but nessesity exists . BR

Hi folx ! Well ,its nobody fault but mine Anyway ... Most of the time I work I have 10-15 Mastercams opened. If I machine one mold ,design the other one and make toolpathes for the third one ... And solve some problems here and there ... Every mold is 3-5 parts minimum plus part drawing and assembly. So you see I easily reach 15 opened Mastercams or more. And most of problems comes on closing Because of that i NEVER MAKE QUIT BY SAVING FILE . I always save file and do File->new command because some of the closed Mastercams will crash. SO I HAVE A QUestion ? Why Mastercam has no multidocument interface . Or lets say why they think it is matter of smaLL IMPORTANCE. I want to hear your reaction ,guys . Is it only me blowing his mind away overreacting ? Or may be thats your issue too Best retards

In the era of pencilcad how would you do it ? draw one circle with needed rad Draw another one and lines from intersection How about that ? always looking for the magical mastercam will do it itself way ?

cherokeechief79 Sorry I have only X7 So if you want my help please put in MCx-7 file BR

go the simple wAY Use Solid hole axis comand to build arcs geo After that its rather simplewithregular drilltoolpath all settings incremental ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's too much trouble selecting each hole and adjusting the linking parameters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`` Use select entities by window HTH

Are your files at network ? Do you know where Mastercam places temporal files and do you have enough free space there ?

I beleive flowline and contour are the only 2 surfacing toolpaths than can machine an undercut ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That`s far from true. I make undercuts every day in 50 % of my parts making extrusion molds . In extrusion it is a common feature I make them using surface pocket and contour . Once after you tried and got understanding what to do it is safe .fast and easy Show me your part and I will make an example toolpathes

MAX RPM 2 fluet end mill preferable If no 2 flueters so use 3 fluets for alluminium. Feed 3000 mm/min Protect your slides cover them with something and use vacuum cleaner HTH You will not have any problems Once I made this with machine 6000 rpm max

Take your contour and use xform-project to project to your plane

Photo's go well with poetry. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ I always thought that it is imagination that goes well Try this Humble *** from Madr*** Once attended the Mastercam cl*** And noone could compete When he worked his full speed Using legs ,tail and an ***

Looks something screwy to me Why extension mmd-6 ? May be you using old defaults or something ?

Machine - builder from city Kabul Once had built an advanced machine - tool . Now controller is wrecked , And the basement is cracked , And the spindle is powered by mule !

Poor fella named Peter Broke the end mill 32 millimeters All the panel shines red Machine spindel is dead And the fellow will meet with St. Peter HTH

To clean the green area use 5 axes flow line rib cut axis control pattern surface HTH

I would use drill 5x you will have one toolpath for all holes ,BTW

when I run the sim, at the point which the part should rotate 180 degrees, mastercams simulator bottoms out the cutter/holder, which "collides" with the stock and workpiece before flipping over to machine the other side. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Also I have noticed that axis sub drilling is not synced with posted values ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All this issues with rotary and axies substitution I ve seen at least from verX2. I have reported to my dealer And they are noted as bugs. Simple code reading helps to reveal they are false alarms HTH

I would drill 3-5 mm deep hole on the previous hole with the long 1\4 end mill instead of center drill . As a matter of fact I did it all the time when I was doing this kind of work HTH