We've got an 2 channel N30 in house. We find it to be a capable machine that we are currently using to do some 5 axis turning and milling. If you have some specific questions feel free to reach out to me.

We were able to get a 2 channel Mastercam post built for the N30(while we awaited final delivery of our NX post) so I'm not sure what aspect of the N20 control is not supported by your Mastercam post builder. We found the biggest hurdle was getting the post builder to use the Niles Cycles rather than Cycle 800 for example. Much of that boiled down to poor communication on our part.

Hey all, this is likely a covered topic but I struggling to phrase my query in a concise and searchable manner!

I am trying to use surface flowline to produce some features. I am making left and right parts, when I try to chain similar features the cut and/or step directions are opposed making the tool path erratic.

I would like to be able to figure out what I can try to manipulate on the surfaces themselves to get the start point and step directions to at least match each other so I can then use the flowline parameters to get the toolpath I desire.

Any suggestions?

In the attached screen shot the part to the right is what I want on both surfaces.

1 hour ago, Aaron Eberhard - CNC Software said:

Any reason you can't select directly from the solid?

Ctrl+click to select matching diameters or Ctrl+shift+click to select matching diameters on the same vector/plane quickly.

That selection method is driven by the same engine that drives Hole Axis that gcode references above.

I have found in the past when using mask on arc, If you use the solid or surfaces of the whole assembly, often times you wills elect the bottom of the hole as well.

This is one of those things where its just how I have done for the past 10 or so years and have never really needed to change my process.

The solution I used today was to use the create curve all edges on the solid and select the face I wanted.

Thanks for the help, I will take some time and try out each of the ways you guys are suggesting.

Dave 

Hello,

In the past iterations of MCAM I typically would import a solid Autodesk Inventor model and move all solids to level 1.

On level 2 i would do a Surface from solids operation.

Then level 3 would be a Wire from Surfaces operation.

When doing a large face with many holes I would typically copy the surface for the face and copy it to a new level, curve on all edges, then mask on Arc the holes it made.

Once In a blue moon I would get a hole that wasn't round and wouldn't mask, but generally this worked great.

We just switch to 2020 from 2018, and I cannot select the holes in the manner anymore!

The curve on all edges isn't making hole but rather splines it seems. As such mask on arc won't select them.

Any suggestions on what  I can do?

Thanks,

Dave

So right click new plane resolved the issue, but it produce a plane that was identical to what I had already. Regardless I am happy its working.

Our dealer hasn't got back to me and  its been a few days so I think Covid-19 Is having an affect on our service(In in Albany Ny, I believe their in Rochester)

I am not seeing a ton of flexibility to change anything in the the axis combo/spindle origin box.

Fwiw I'm totally new to 5 axis turning, 5 axis milling on this thing has been awesome, but this is the first complex turning part I've tried to do over here.

One group should be the top side.

The other would be the Bottom, with a Lathe plane to coincide with each.

When you refer to axis combos you mean cooradtinating the turning plane the correct way to coincide with your milling "top plane"?

What baffles me is the ghosted turning ops(hidden by the window) post as you would expect and worked fine.

Hello,

I have run into an odd issue with my Okuma MU6300VL

I am doing a pretty straight forward contour, the machine however is putting out XYZ info for each move, the backplot shows weird 3d Circular interpolationmoves and the code posting seems to be reflecting this action as well.

You can see the funky toolpath in the attached JPG

Any Ideas what could be causing this?

nevermind i realized a missed soemthing.

Mods please delete

9 minutes ago, Old_Bear said:

V9 style can only have 3...if you want or need more, you have to move the X style coolant

What a shame...Thanks

Is there a way to default the Before,with,after to a specific setting?

In the operational defaults page all I get is on or off for options when using x style coolant

Hey Folks, 

I am running an Okuma and getting the post squared away.

I am trying to add a coolant "event". However I can only do so if I disable backwards coolant compatibility.

I would prefer NOT to run X style coolant because of constantly having to check the "before","with","after box".

In My post I have gone through and defined Sm08_3 and Sm09_3, and added where appropriate.

My basic question is this.

How do I add a coolant event to utilize Sm08_3!

Thanks,
Dave W.

2 minutes ago, JoshC said:

Go into machine group properties for the Tool Settings page (right above stock setup) and make sure feedrates are on From Tool instead of material.

That's It!

I can't believe I missed that!

Thanks!

1 hour ago, Old_Bear said:

Reinitializing will reset the speeds and feeds to whatever the tool is defined and saved into the library..

 

 

This is exactly my problem....

On every other Machine I have a post for, re-initializing works.

It is not working on this post. What I told you in my first post is what I have saved in my library.

Edit: The pics added should display what I am running into.

Hello Folks,

Am having an Issue with a Post for An Okuma I just started working on.

For Example, I just setup a 5mm carbide endmill at 10000 RPM and a Feed of 3000 MM Per Min.

However After I reinitialized my speeds and feeds I got something like 7K Rpm and 2100 Feed.

I have been struggling with this for a week or so and cant get anywhere. Lock Feeds and speeds is NOT checked.

How much would another box be? I'm really intrigued by this magic box btw

We could do that, I have reservations for that as these are parts that we get fairly frequently through these 2 machines. But this could be due to my lack of drip feeding experience(I've only done it once in the past). We use the FTP function to transfer programs, but the USB option is available.

I did find that something was up with the surface I was using. I had accidentally used the wrong level.

Re-selecting the surfaces I had drawn with Mastercam drastically reduced the size of the program, from something like 300k lines to 20k which I can fit in the control.

Doing this basically resolved my 2 questions.

But I thought I remember in older versions like X9 there was a drop-down for arc line filtering in the surfacing ops.

Thanks,

Dave W.

Hey Guys,

I am trying to trim the fat on this part program so it will fit on my Fanuc Control.

I do some Dynamic Profiling which I've already opened up the Arc and Line tolerancing on.

On some of the Roughing Surfacing I could give up some tolerance as well but I cant find the dialog in MCam2018.

Another Question I had,

With both the dynamic and the surfacing ops I see it posts my x moves broken up. Even if it's moving 50" in X, it is broken up into about .875 movements with no Y change.

I find this really confusing with the Dynamic milling because its a drawn rectangle for line geometry.

What causes this and is there any other settings I can tweak to get this program size under control?

Thanks,

Dave W.

Thanks for the replies,

I would've replied sooner but I hit my post limit yesterday I guess.

I was able to resolve the issue with Microsoft mouse and keyboard manager, I had noticed the mouse  wheel had what seemed like a lot of side to side play, this turned out to be for "horizontal scrolling". I disable horizontal scrolling with the Microsoft manager and every thing works as it should!

I discovered this yesterday while looking to uninstall the Microsoft drivers. However all I had for drivers for the mouse was a "HID compliant mouse", with no rollback options.

Thanks for the help!

So I disabled reverse zoom and it works a bit now.

I tried cranking my wheel sensitivity way up and it works more like you would expect, but is still odd.

I never thought a mouse would give me such trouble!

See attached, I am not seeing that option

Hey Folks,

was running mastercam 2018 on a windows 7 PC for most of the year and had no issues.

I Just switched to a windows 10 PC, with a Microsoft wireless keyboard mouse combo and am having issues with the zoom wheel.

When I zoom in, it zooms out. When I Zoom out, it zooms out.

Any ideas?

I found a thread with a similar issue with x5 but half of the settings they fiddled with are obsolete now it seems.

Thanks,

Dwilson357