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XP Pro With latest Service Packs
Probalbly not Mastercam Problem - but has anyone
seen this - if I go to the control panel to
add or remove progams it lists the software installed but does not show any size for the
software and the box for unistall or repair is
missing so I cannot uninstall any programs
including previous versions of Mastercam
Thanks for any input
Back and bottom do not work for A axis because
of the X axis orientation - if you think of a
box with lettering on all sides when you view
the box from the back or bottom the lettering
appears correct - but if you take tranparent
box and view lettering on the back of the box
from the front view the letters appear mirror
image - ie: the X axis is pointing the opposite way from the front view - so you need
to create a new c-plane for the rotation to work
Using X2 MR1
Mplfan.pst
Lathe Toolpaths
In Machine def - coolant comands - I have tried both settings for "support coolant using values in post" In "lathe inch defaults" coolant flood is set to on - but coolant is not urned on when a toolpath is generated - does each tool have to be set to coolant on - does the tool library have to be edited one tool at a time - is there a post setting to change?
Thanks for any help
Running X2 SP1
When facing the use stock to define the
cuts works - but choosing two points is greyed out - using Mplfan post - anyone else seeing this
Thanks for any help
Using X2 MR1 SP1
Toolpaths are created in mill
I select one toolpath
The Toolpath editor shows in the bottom of the
operations manager but it is greyed out
and will not allow selection
Is there some setting that I am overlooking?
Thanks for any help
If you select doc file from the operations manager and print this I think it will do
what you want for tool lists - it doesnt give
as much info as setup sheets however
Cant quite tell from your drawing what the c-plane is - but I have found when unrolling geometry it ends up at the unrolled radius number
not from the center of rotation - the
solution was to project the unrolled geo back to the center dim of the plane - seems like it should unroll to the center but it doesnt
"create curves spline" will give you a spline
"create point segment" - give the length and it will create points at intervals along the spline
Break the spline at the points
Extend each spline segment a short distance
create a point at the extended end
break the spline at the original end point
create a line using the original spline point
and the extended spline point
Under planes choose "planes by normal"
choose the end of the line at the original spline
end this will give you a c-plane normal to the spline
There may be a shorter more elegant solution
but this should get what you want
it is looking for the profile to create along a path - in your case this would be the radius you
are trying to generate - create this radius -
then it will ask for the along path which is
the path the tool will travel along to create the radius - think of taking a radius guage and
passing around tha top of a box
Make sure the last item in each list holds
stock or tools - if you have more than one in each list make sure the first one is not checked when you check axis combos - also found even legal ones would not show unless they were saved and the list exited then go back to machine def and they will show axis combos - might also check to see it your simm has the machine you are building enabled
If I create a c-plane using geometry and then
go to another plane for some ops - when I try
to go back to the orignal plane if I choose by
geometry or by the name - it creates a new plane the same as the original but with a new name - it works but the plane list now contains duplicate names for the same plane - also it wont let me save the first plane I created
Anyone else see this or am I missing something?
How can I create Material libraries that can
be used by different programmers - I see how
to create tool libraries and how to assign
materials to different machines but how
to create a set of material libraries that
diffrent programmers can access anytime they
want
Thanks for any help
I can't get to the FTP site - as long as coons
works I'll be OK
Thanks OWL - tried the link but no luck - guess
the lesson is make backups
Thanks for replies eveyrone
Yes it is Zip drive - looks like the file track
is corrupt - is there a data recovery program
that will restore the file structure
I start with all the alongs on one oneside
then work in the same direction on all the other alongs - then start in the same corner and
pick all the acrosses - this works with coons but
will not work for me in net
Is it possible to create net surfaces with more
than one patch in along and across by selecting
geometry - no matter what sequence I try it says " across curves out of sequence" - it works if colors are changed and average is used and geometry is selected in a window - coons works fine by selecting geometry individually
Also I have a zip disk when I try to select files
it shows a bunch of strange symbols -
anyone have advice on recoverey of these files
Thanks for any help
If you mirror the geometry and select a tool in
the bottom turret rotated the proper way you
can regenerate the toolpath and see it in the
bottom orintation - you do have a different toolpath though - so save the origial first
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