We have 2 nc format s.

The old one that came with camplete works fine

The new we got from the matsuura guy stops using the clearance height after the first hole. The g43 line goes right to the retract value set in the drill parameters.  Each rotary move is posted as a 3+2 with the Twp.

The setting is not checked in mastercam to use only at start and end.

After looking thru the nc formats nothing is poping out at what's wrong.

Any ideas what to look at?

Thanks

I usually set my feed in the tool screen. Then if I want to change it I simply edit the tool and they all update

12 hours ago, cincy k said:

Where? I do not think all the machine parameters are setup in Camplete. 

Perameter19700 has the rotary position in the 31i

And the next one has the z value

From what I have seen you Mount a tooling ball on the outer most edge of the rotary head and indicate in varius positions, I've never done it though.

I had one 25 meg. Never loaded the whole thing though.

We only use n numbers on the tool change line

You may want to try a stub flute long reach endmill.  Harvey has a wide selection

Small spot first or spot > than the drill angle. Then drill and come back to chamfer

I used this thread to set one of mine up for simple probing

I program from the minor dia because i use entity and the threads are modeled as the minor. I use the over cut with the tap pitch as a value. I usually back it off .003 and tune it with cutter comp.

A couple of my coworkers use point so they put the major dia in. But then they ask me the major of some still thread and I have no idea so they have to go looking for that info.

Put it in 3d chain mode 

Do you have the cutters to machine those radii in a single pass?

If not you'll need to surface them

Maybe you only have a few features for the auto cursor active.

I'm not sure on the new version but can you right click and pick the auto cursor settings to see what's active

There are several

The next few seem like 3+2 and the last could be a swarf or 5axis curve

It looks like a 2d high speed or a surface high speed rough.

They have it set to retract at about an inch or two gap it seems

From the picture it looks like the face is about 3 inches below the rotation point. 

I'm not sure if you said what the actual problem was. Is the position in y axis off?

You can either find and program from the center of rotation or I believe there is a spot in the post to set the offset for the center of rotation shift

I had a pocket where I changed a step over and it cut thru a center boss. Lowering the step overback to the original fixed it.

I didn't look at the file but adding sync lines has smoothed some out for me

This is good to know, I just opened a repeat job in x9 that was from x.

What will be the cut off for 2018?

What's your tolerance set to? 

I set mine to 5000 maximum arc, and .00w with the slider in the middle between cut and arc tolerance.

Sometimes I go more but you must leave extra material because it will violate the stock to leave and boundary with a large tolerance on occasion

For the entry try and remove the vertical arc  from the linking parameters page

My old bossed pappy made one from a plastic bin and clamped it on the shaft of the tailstock. Then he would advance it during cutoff.

You can definitely add it, sometimes they are simply added that the sellers Warehouse

4 hours ago, Jay Kramer @ Precision Programming said:

Way to much work and to many unnecessary machine groups that don't follow each other. And trying follow with STL files. like going back in time. I beleave this is more work then needed.
JM2C

I suppose. Its the way I was shown.

I couldn't handle the warning if you would like to post all tool paths every time though. Lol

On your other point I agree with millman about not altering the g49.

It seems like you want the machine to read out the absolute height offset position so you can look at it up close. I have done this by single blocking and then feed hold and open door request. Then I can move it while he height offset is still active. From there you can either reset and start over or close the door and start the spindle and resume the program.

Is this what you want to accomplish?

You can also go to relative position screen and if your offset is 10" put z-10. Preset. That value will persist unless you have the machine set to overwrite with manual zero return.

ETA ,it seems you have a different issue , it may be in the book where the other peramater groups are

We use a new machine group for each op.

Then you can save an stl or make a solid if you wish.

I have even verified without being in the active group when needed

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