oh ya! every time ! the last time was a brand new 3/4 long series end mill. I was taking about .002" when it hit the corner and was destroyed! I was not expecting to have to look at this path with such scrutiny! if I wanted to ignore that setting I would just use a simple contour path to finish. it is ridiculous to have a setting that, anonymously, only applies to part of a tool path! it is not that way in 2d contour . if I set a min. radius it listens!

All the broken tooling that happened because the tool dives in to a corner taking all the material that it just carefully left behind! I tore the flutes off endmills over and over before I figured out this fault! it took three years to figure out why. I rarely used the path, and on tool steel less than that. hence the three years of smashed endmills. What is the min. radius for if not to save the tool from a right angle corner? a right angle corner won't be finished either way. the response from cnc software was... basically Yes that is a bug that will be fixed. p.s. good to hear from u Gcode .. RESPECT.

It is incredible that a simple aspect of a basic path can be completely ignored !

Dynamic Contour... It is incredible that a simple aspect of a basic path can be completely ignored for years!

Just wondering if CNC soft. fixed this tool path yet? (the finish pass ignores minimum toolpath radius!) we don't get updates or patches unless we ask. thx. S.

I keep close arc in my right click menu. I have "ALT- J" set up for join entities.

I resist using solid geometry for tool paths because I've seen CRAZY sh*t happen with drill paths. If you move your modal , translate it to a slightly different location, It may decide on its own that it wants to drill out something like a fillet somewhere else on the part. I saw it years ago with Version 9.1 and was so surprised when it happened years later with an X version... now that I saw the glitch is still here in 2019 I have given up on ever trusting solids to a tool path again! for that matter I don't intend on "upgrading" again beyond 2019. the devil u know is better than the devil you don't. Its to bad that I stopped using 2017. the drill point manager was SO MUCH BETTER!! I digress . I could go on and on.

Thanks! 2018-07 manufacture date. it belongs to a U.S. company GFL. We are "storing it" for them and that is almost over. gonna set up a production job on it before they ship it out of Canada next month or so. I left it up to our maintenance dept. Don't think they let anyone know. Sorry. I'm just the guy that plays with the toys. s.

Thanks for the extra info. Paul Sorry to be unclear . I moved just the rotator, not the machine. So it looks like it was the adjustment that I needed. only the Y... Z is obviously unchanged. what is EOP? and COR? I'll bet the machine is not Perfect by a long shot. When I Started on it last year, the column had to be Shimmed over, as the travel in Z was not square with the table!. a cylindrical Square showed about .012" over 18" Yup! 12 thou. our Maint. guys fixed her up. my clue came when I tried to drill opposing right angle holes with the B axis and had ridiculous results! I would not be surprised to find there is other sh#t wrong. so this check u speak of is interesting. It is awesome to have access to the collective intelligence of the community. Much appreciated! Steve. ok Center of Rotation .. lol but EOP?

do you mean the half offsets? must be . Thanks... ahh most excellent sir , I see them now! perrrrrfect.

Some where in the control, I should have taken notes last time... There is the location defined for my 5th axis. Doosan VCF 850 LSR 4+1 with fanuc series 31i - modal b5 can any one tell me how to find the field where I need to update the Y location of my rotator? when it turns the plane with g68.2 it goes out of alignment to the actual center ever since I had to move the thing. my g55 is good to the rotator and manual indexing works ok. your attention is greatly appreciated in this matter,, thanks all. Steve

me too... I am afraid of the next retardation of the system. I don't plan on changing till I retire if I can help it.

sorry that was a quote within from Bill

agreed but I am a bit ashamed of teaching it to the new machinists here.

Has any one noticed that if u translate a solid to a new spot it may switch out arcs associated to tool paths. I had it try to drill a fillet one time. So I don't use solids for drilling any more.... just like we decided back in the late '90s when solids were new. The same problem made it thru how many years ???? it's enough for me to loose all hope for M.C.

yes and I have had a spot drill spontaneously change from 90 deg. to 118 !!!!

lol it's too late for that now... they should have done that a decade ago! they will never dig out of this hole. I would love to change to Cimetron or something else, but truth be told,I'd rather retire early.

gotter!

So I'm all alone as support for this job that quit when I tried to calibrate the probe in x on a mounted sphere. we had false fail readings repeatedly on a bore dia. so I tried to run the cali. prog. but the probe tries to crash every time. Now it won't run on the part at all. my guy is sweeping!! it does a weird z-y dive and errors with something like " trying to measure without... " something like a baseline I forget the term. Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks in advance.

This is weird, After re picking the geometry the fourth time ,,, it worked right. circle mill simple 2d stuff and I have to work at it to randomly come up with a good tool path!!!! WHAT NEXT??? yesterday I went to a new level and created some cad, when I went back to work on the part, my latest plane had moved drastically and trashed my previous work ! BshT.mcam

I don't see a material default but u can save the display state in a veiwsheet for easy use. that will apply material for u.

I noticed that point one is always red. it won't change when selected like the others do. My delete key works good.

Can't agree with this more. It may be that I just haven't figured out how this is supposed to work yet, By the way there is one thing I like about the drill point manager, it keeps your work when u escape to close... one less click with the mouse is always appreciated! lately my left hand has been holding my head up more than working hotkeys.

Who besides a wet behind the ears infant would design a toolpath hole selection window, where the list of points is a narrow vertical column running out the bottom of a short wide window that keeps retarding back to its default shape? WTF ? Every time I delete points it's aN ORDEAL!

Still day to day usability is clumsy. They obviously care way too much about shiny new whistles and bells than they do about what it's like to use the software. or they would listen to us . The other day I modified a plane and MC threw out 6 view sheets for me. yesterday I changed the dia. of my spot drill, so MC tripled the spindle speed and doubled the feed rate for me! There are so many glitchy ways that the software works that it's impossible to predict what it will do next. Why does the toolpath manager jump around so much? Why does it scroll to a different spot if I even sneeze? I wish they would just work on what they have got and make it run smooth. they need to work on improvements rather that adding more stuff to impress non users into purchasing!