As a Canadian, I will be the first to say that our soldiers have also committed shameful acts. http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/flashback/1996/somalia2.html Not everybody joins the forces for the right reasons.

Check Job Setup and see if "Adjust feed on arc" is turned on. Glenn

The easiest way is to chain the pocket using the inside of the fillet and in the XY stock to leave parameter put "-" the fillet size. Glenn

If you want to get rid of that logic just remove this line in the post. if seqno = 0, omitseq = yes

You only need to do this on the first operation.

Mpmaster does it one better. You do not have to edit the post. Just set the "Seq Start" variable in the first parameter page to 0 for no line numbers or to whatever you first line is to have line numbers. Glenn

Glad to help. You guys have a big lathe! Your mill is not small either!

Convert your geometry to a single entity and then make the surface, by doing the following: Get rid of the sharp corners with a Create, Fillet, Chain .01 fillet on all the geometry and then do a Create, Spline, Curve on the profile and make your surface from that. Glenn

quote: Where has the time gone? Reading/replying to O/T threads on emastercam, that's where.

My V9 Draft has Squash. In V9 squash is no longer a chook. Draft does not have any Create, Curve commands. (which is a spline/surface command) Draft does have Create Spline.

quote: The other little problem is between SP1 and SP2 - there is a rotational shift of 90 degrees on the tool paths and so if one programmer (SP2) is doing some festures in on a legacy SP1 file, then there is an error amount in the finla outcome. Andrew, I cannot duplicate this. Are you sure you were not switching between Lathe and Mill? C0 on a lathe will be 90 degrees different than A0 on Mill.

I take it that your leadin/out settings are correct? I have seen that before also. Send it in to CNC. For now the best you can do is add a warning to your post to let you know this is happening. code: scompwarn "WARNING-CUTTER COMP APPLIED ON ARC MOVE" pcirout #Output to NC of circular interpolation if compwarn, pcompwarn .................. pcompwarn #Cutter Compensation Check if prv_cc_pos <> cc_pos & cc_pos & gcode > 1, [ if compwarnflg = 0, result = mprint(scompwarn,1) spaces = 0 pbld, n, pspc, *sm00, pspc, "(", scompwarn, ")", e spaces = sav_spc compwarnflg = 1 ]

This is fun. Remember Spirograph? Try this one code: step_var1 = t step_size1 = .1 lower_limit1 = 1 upper_limit1 = 33 o = 66 R = 36 r = -15 geometry = spline x = (R+r)*cos(t) - (r+O)*cos(((R+r)/r)*t) y = (R+r)*sin(t) - (r+O)*sin(((R+r)/r)*t) o = 66 offset of the pen point in the moving circle R = 36 radius of fixed circle r = -15 radius of moving circle http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html

BTW, the post for your Classic is called MPWAGEVO.PST. It comes with the Mastercam CD.

You can also right-click in the operation manager and select "Recalculate Speeds/feeds"

Here is one way to sort the points. Do a drill toolpath using one of Mastercam's over 20 differant methods of drill sorting. Edit the code so that you are left with only the X and Y positions. Go, File, converters, Ascii, and read this file in as points. Now when you do your Create, Point Srf Project on these new points it will give you the APT file with the same order as you drilled them.

We have done many Biesse posts including the RT480. Have you or your dealer contacted us since you are also from Canada?

Use, Create, Srf Project, pick surfaces and points and turn on Write XYZIJK in APT format.

Are you using Toolpath, Next Menu, Project,. Cylinder? If the toolpath goes to the bottom rotate the arc 180 degrees in the arc view. V9.1 does the same. (I have not used that toolpath in 10 years) [ 09-18-2003, 06:52 AM: Message edited by: Glenn Bouman ]

Transforming the geometry only works if you selected incremental as your cut depth. Looks like you have to go thru each operation and change them one at a time.

Chances are your eval is intalled in C:CIMCO. Even with a hasp it will not work in 3 days. Your Cimco edit in Mastercam will still work. You may want to re-associate your file types to "C:Mcam9CommonEditorsCeditCimcoedit.exe" or just un-install the eval.

CNC Software should remove Machine1.mch and Machine2.mch from CEDIT_MC9_43209.zip. Or there will be more people with the same problem.

You have the "Retract" and "Clearance" turned off. Turn them on and you have the same functionality.

I do not see any problems. I have used both versions for 5 axis trimming and I like the new better. When you read a v9.0 file into v9.1 it still keeps your settings you had in v9.0 Before if you used Entry/Exit without the Approach height it would rapid right to contour depth. The new way gives you 2 "Z" moves before the contour depth. The old way gave you only one. Do you examples where the new way does not work?

You need to reduce the value of your "Gap Size" under Gap Settings. Set the "Gap Distance" to 1mm and every stepover move larger than 1mm will do a full retract. [ 07-01-2003, 08:13 AM: Message edited by: Glenn Bouman ]