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Long time no see folks, been buried under a pile of work, almost none of which has been programming related. I took a new job with a large company a while back and it took a while to get Mastercam purchased get posts developed (still working on that), and have time to whip up some test programs. All of my coding has been done by hand here to date, and it is time to start using CAM to optimize for tool life and reliability for some operations, as well as confidence that I don't have any stupid errors omitting features or some such issue. Anyway, I have a back facing operation that I have to prove out that requires a 10" slotting saw at a 12" projection. I have to work from the Z- to the Z+ with shallow depth cuts. I have played around trying to get it to do it, but can't for the life of me get it to work leading me to believe it can't be done in a conventional manner. I swear i did this before, but maybe it was a ramp which I know can be done. So to get around this for now I have just chained my paths at each depth and used an incremental value of zero to control the depth, but making changes to the depth cuts is slow and cumbersome and requires me to move and add chains as needed. Anyone have a faster way? Husker Currently Running X6 MU2 Mill Level 2
