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In Mastercam Mill/Turn you will program your toolpaths as you typically would for any milling program....you'll work an order of operations...
When taking the iof file into Code Expert, you then perform all of the operation linking and wait codes and can set which paths will be into which stream....
You can then posted them out as separate streams/files
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This doesn't answer your question, sorry about that, it does though prompt a question....
Why use iges?
It's technically not outdated but it is an old process that is fraught with issues and limitations, I'm just curious.
Your description of your issue isn't the clearest, so I can mostly guess what you are seeing and the result you are seeing in this area IS correct...
The Waterline toolpath is not good at cutting horizontal areas....so the wide move you see across that area denoted by the larger step is what should be expected on a flat surface
you can also see that as the surfaces begins the top of the radius, the toolpath gopes back into the smaller stepovers.
To me that's not the ideal geometry for utilizing Waterline.
I would likely either look to a Blend toolpath or I might stack up a Surface Finish Contour and a Flowline
Just my opinion, FWIW, I have zero information to support it. I do wonder if it wasn't more of a "cash out"...perhaps wrapped up in some of what you believe gcode
Yup, for many, it's simply all about squeezing that last nickel or dime of profit....We have come to sacrifice the long term investments for the short term gains and completely overlook the costs of those gains beyond the $$$
With Autodesk, it starts and ends right there
Takes me to a quote from the book "Rising Sun" I'll paraphrase it...
"If you do not wish us to buy it, why then is it for sale?"
Not unless you either backed it up manually or can find it in a z2g file that you may have made.
I always take copies of my .config and .workspace files and copy them to another drive that gets backed up just in case.
If it can be done cheaper using subtractive machining, that is probably the best way to go.
Additive manufacturing has its place. It is not however cheap to get into and its best application is on parts that are otherwise difficult to manufacture. Ti powder to continue printing is $10k per 30kg
I can state unequivocally that parts we print could not be manufactured utilizing subtractive methods. Even if it "could" somehow, it would be cost prohibitive.
@Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
I had this issue dropped on my desk and considering the use you have in mind, I thought this may be of interest to you
https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/dmg-mori-build-plate-pucks-cut-postprocessing-time-by-80
These old versions had all kinds of issues with .net
I can't tell you how many times the .net framework had to be completely uninstalled and reinstalled to get them running...
I might also suggest removing the config file from the folder and let X4 attempt to make a new one.
I've seen 2 things make this happen...
1. Make sure your feedrate is entered as IPM and FPT
or
2. In you machine def make sure your machines rapid values are set appropriately
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