28 minutes ago, cncappsjames said:

What's the CAMplete warning?

It's for turning cutter comp on in a z move. It doesn't stop the simulation 

Just now, Leon82 said:

It's for turning cutter comp on in a z move. It doesn't stop the simulation 

Feed plane is .03 incremental and top of stock it .02 incremental 

When I do a circle Mill 5 axis I'm using a line I believe for orientation. Camplete posts out of g43 tilted work plane but it's turning cutter comp on on the z move for the helix.

I have Track cutter comp mode in the files setting on Camplete checked.

This is giving me a warning a cam fleet but a simulates fine I haven't actually run it on the machine yet. Has anyone had this before?

I asked why we don't use mastercam wire, pcfabcut has the technology for each fanuc wire already loaded. It's different for each machine so you don't have to figure all that stuff out and load it into mastercam 

I believe it does exactly what you want.

you can scroll thru the top of the post and it should have a description where they are declared

The fine print on the kitamura recommends a plus or minus 2° environment.

.001should be doable but you will need to keep the machine temp consistent and may have to do fine tweaking with the stock to leave. Some of our parts have 20 micron true positions so we will usually make a sub program with a separate work offset on our matsuura and probe the datums 

Maybe the stroke of the draw bar release is being blocked so it can't release.

20 minutes ago, cruzila said:

Do you wan to use one G81 with multiple Z? Some machines may not support this.

I think he's more interested in doing multiple holes with one mastercam op

Sometimes you can use absolute top of stock with incremental depth for they are different depths from one plane. 

You can also make toolpath sub groups that would house each tool

It sounds like you need to copy your existing machine, posts and control defs to the new workstation. 

Or set them on a server and set the paths.

If your just probing holes and faces for work offsets you can do it thru the extra drill cycles.

When I measure a surface I put the measurement macro in-between the cycles with a manual entry.

If you can decipher the yellow book it may give you the parameter to check.

On old times we have to pick the current machine twice to get the control def text to show up.

Sometimes it crashes and says there is a memory problem after trying this

Hit it with some ospho to stop the rust then use a coolant that doesn't cause it.

The factory paint in our mam was gone after 3 parts where the facemill threw them. 

Can't you initialize the tool table again?

With something like Camplete the plane origin doesn't matter. If you want the origin to be the center of rotation I would right click and duplicate, then edit to your desired angle.

We had a metal 3 phase conduit come loose exposing the wires by about 3 inches.  It made all the transfers fail.

Cranky Hank our resident cranky olde timer went to school for electrical engineering. He put a wrap of tin foil on it and it was restored to proper function 

I would recommend programming quadrants with 4 work offsets. Probe or indicate each zero.

I had a similar part and when I went to do a final skim I used the set angle lock in Camplete. 3 120 degree positions. Basically the same as 3 work offsets

I couldn't get it to work with the five axis machine definition that's why I was saying that

When i did it i modified a 4 axis post with the correct z axis rotary orientation. i couldn't get it to stay on the left side which is what i needed, but it did work after some transform hacking. now i use camplete to do it and it works with TCP much better.

does this happen to anyone else? the tool goes up down and back up with no x or y moves. it goes away when minimum vertical retract is used

It appears that module works licenses their paths to cam software companies.

They may have a patent on it. So if that's the case you either pay the license fee or you have to buy the company for the patent.

I should let you know I'm only a self declared expert. ( The best kind imho)

3 hours ago, Rstewart said:

Toolpath transform bit me today....

All seemed to post out correctly, But two paths failed to end up in the code   Didn't realize this until after the parts were off the machine.

This was just for g54 and g55 in two separate vises.  Could have been BAD.

Were they open pockets?

I had an issue with several jobs in 2020 that posted fine for 4 or 5 years in previous versions and then randomly would omit roughing passes. If I had actually followed the old set up sheet and used an insert mill instead of an accupro when we transferred it to our mam it would have exploded the cutter.

We had the moxa boxes and I think we got them up to fanuc setting 12 which may be 19k baud.  

Almost all of our moxa boxes blew up. They replaced them with the new rev version and they have been better.

But at that rate I tried to send an 8 meg program and it took an hour before I stopped it. I ended up running dnc and eventually from the card.

accupro makes them.

https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/32632093

they have cat and bt.

1 hour ago, avimoore said:

Anybody know if there's a plugin that would work for MasterCam 2023 and Camplete 2020?

We're currently using MasterCam 2018 and Camplete 2020 with the plugin to post to our 5 axis mills (Yasdas and Matsuuras). We're trying to make the transition to MasterCam 2023 but I'm unable to find a plugin for 2023 and Camplete 2020. Are we really stuck with older MasterCam until we pay into Camplete's subscription model for an update?

I don't think it matters because our 2023 plug-in opens the older version on the computers we haven't updated yet

Is it in the calibration macro itself?