this is a great button for figuring out what is involved. and scallop is a great toolpath for finishing.

sorry about your luck on that. like I said 2019 seems useable., 2017 better yet... etc. we r looking at sw cam. now... to get away from the backslide. with my 20 years at MC. I don't have time to get that good at SW. so I am stuck too. Fumble on man.

are there loops in corners or just lines? is it all one chain? thre is a clearance setting in corner fillets that may help u

I heard talk of "down cutting" reverse helical endmills for lamination issues. almost married one of those!

Downgrade your MasterC. to a release that works for you. I use 2019 2017 is better yet.

u could modify an end mill into a woodruff shape to eliminate chatter. if u leave .1" or less of tooth at the end it should cut well.

Wont his other one get cold? or lonely?

There is a save icon in the corner of your parameters page when you r programing . that is how I set up defaults.

idk, Did they fix this ?

You can get your tool path groups to self number like this.

Absolutely! agree and when previous innovative conveniences are ignored and thrown out it becomes retarded . like if u want to change depth at point on an individual point of a drill set... it used to carry forward the actual setting in the field for u to modify. Now it comes up with a fat zero to help u out! same goes in many places. once the point was modified it used to grey the depth field to show that something was modified... now there is no evidence. I could run a fricking class on how things are worse now and how not to screw up a program ... I'd have material for a year easy. Fish in a barrel.

I stopped updating at 2019. but I should have stopped at 2017 for the drill point manager. ( they ruined it in 2019 and the just left it blatantly stupid,, release after release...) the operations manager was ruined about 15 or 18 years ago with "X" each new version gets worse IMO. 20 years ago it was So GOOD! lately it looks like it was coded by children. Too bad no one checked their work.

Similarly I would blank items used in solid creation for protection.

Most Excellent! Thankyou.

that is right , 360 is good. but how do I get mastercam to output something that works ? I have some long code that is too much to edit manually . out of the next eight arcs it skipped three of them. G00 G90 G17 G21 G40 G80 G91 G28 Z0. M11 (UNCLAMP PALLET) G28 B0. M10 (CLAMP PALLET) N46 T46 M06 G00 G90 G54 M236 S3834 M03 M11 (UNCLAMP PALLET) B-90. M10 (CLAMP PALLET) M255 X-89.2271 Y77.46 G43 H1 Z273.24 Z228.24 G01 G94 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X-89.227 Y77.46 I0. J-11.294 F1150.8 G00 X-89.2271 Z271.03 Z273.24 X47.8071 Y54.8725 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X47.807 Y54.872 I0. J11.294 F1150.8 G00 X47.8071 Y54.8725 Z271.03 Z273.24 Y-77.46 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X47.807 Y-77.46 I0. J11.294 F1150.8 G00 X47.8071 Z271.03 Z273.24 X-89.2271 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X-89.227 Y-77.46 I0. J11.294 F1150.8 G00 X-89.2271 Z271.03 Z273.24 X-96.91 Y39.15 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X-96.91 Y39.15 I0. J5.3 F1150.8 G00 Z271.03 Z273.24 X-69.9225 Y93.125 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X-69.922 Y93.125 I0. J5.3 F1150.8 G00 X-69.9225 Z271.03 Z273.24 X28.5025 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X28.503 Y93.125 I0. J5.3 F1150.8 G00 X28.5025 Z271.03 Z273.24 X84.065 Y18.5125 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X84.065 Y18.512 I0. J5.301 F1150.8 G00 Y18.5125 Z271.03 Z273.24 Y-29.1125 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X84.065 Y-29.113 I0. J5.3 F1150.8 G00 Y-29.1125 Z271.03 Z273.24 X31.6775 Y-100.55 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X31.677 Y-100.55 I0. J5.3 F1150.8 G00 X31.6775 Z271.03 Z273.24 X-73.0975 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X-73.097 Y-100.55 I0. J5.3 F1150.8 G00 X-73.0975 Z271.03 Z273.24 X-96.91 Y-49.75 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X-96.91 Y-49.75 I0. J5.3 F1150.8 G00 Z273.24 M05 G91 G28 Z0. M11 (UNCLAMP PALLET) G90 B0. M10 (CLAMP PALLET) M235 M30 % thanks.

Hey all, I am havin a time! this glitchy machine.. Makino a51nx, is skipping over the odd arc move like it wasn't even there! any ideas on why? G00 G90 G17 G21 G40 G80 G91 G28 Z0. M11 (UNCLAMP PALLET) G28 B0. M10 (CLAMP PALLET) N46 T46 M06 G00 G90 G54 M236 S3834 M03 M11 (UNCLAMP PALLET) B-90. M10 (CLAMP PALLET) M255 X-89.2271 Y77.46 G43 H1 Z273.24 Z228.24 G01 G94 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X-89.227 Y77.46 I0. J-11.294 F1150.8 G00 X-89.2271 Z271.03 Z273.24 X47.8071 Y54.8725 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X47.807 Y54.872 I0. J11.294 F1150.8 G00 X47.8071 Y54.8725 Z271.03 Z273.24 Y-77.46 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X47.807 Y-77.46 I0. J11.294 F1150.8 G00 X47.8071 Z271.03 Z273.24 X-89.2271 Z228.24 G01 Z221.03 F1176.2 G03 X-89.227 Y-77.46 I0. J11.294 F1150.8 This move is skipped. G00 X-89.2271 Z271.03 Z273.24 X-96.91 Y39.15 every few arcs it skips one. Thanks in advance for your time on this. Steve.

you may need to rebuild the hole pattern rather than wrapping the geometry. I don't know if there is a way to wrap a flat set of arcs. sorry maybe some one else has a good idea.

is this what you r looking for?

on our Hartford,I got them to enable the floor jets while the door is open so I could tap into the output with a spray gun. Sharing the flow is a bit lame but with more shut off valves you could get decent pressure...

this is why I no longer update to new "better versions". I don't want to find the latest frustrations piled on top of all the old ones. lost functionality is typical with every new release. they don't care if you are tied to your mouse hand. I use 2019 and wish I had stayed with 2017 for the drill point manager ( better in at least 5 ways before the upgrade.) thx for the hot keys, I didn't know those. hopefully they work right on 2019.

you can project a point onto the surface with translate, project. would that help?

why so much overlap? I use .03" or .04

I prefer conventional milling inside bores to limit recutting chips. comp right.

I don't get it... how is it EVER helpful to encounter a sudden gob of material at the apex of an internal corner when finishing? Or for that matter, to find any extra material any where when on a finish path ? That makes no sense! at best it causes chatter. sometimes the engineers need the sharp corners, so I pick it out in a different setup, other times the radius is irrelevant so I can leave it.

I program and machine about 40 to 60 parts per month hurray for 5 axis if only temporary . so it comes up every so often. when there is a smaller tool following a larger one to pick out corners better. (it should be called left over by how it works.) thanks Chally72 for replying.