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Mastercam question

 

I know this is slightly off topic, but I was hoping there might be some
experts here.

I am creating a toolpath in Mastercam and have the clearance value on my
Contour set at 2".
However, when I post the output (using the Mach2 post processer as well as
others) it starts at Z=0 and goes straight to the XY position of the start
of the contour before going to Z of 2".

Does anybody have any ideas to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
-Chris
 

I am creating a toolpath in Mastercam and have the clearance value
on my
Contour set at 2".
However, when I post the output (using the Mach2 post processer as
well as
others) it starts at Z=0 and goes straight to the XY position of
the start
of the contour before going to Z of 2".

Does anybody have any ideas to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
-Chris

Chris,
I have used Master Cam some, but I haven't used the Clearance value
at all. I use the Retract value of 0.25, Feed Plane of 0.1
Absolute, Top of stock 0.0 and Depth of cut -0.something. I have a
guy at work that is an expert......I'll ask him your question.

Ed
Mike Hammel
 

I have the exact same problem. I end up importing into mach 2 and editing to add a g0 z move at the start of the code. I hate having to rework code that is otherwise perfect.


Mike Hammel
www.fancyfoam.com
1704 Bullard
Arkansas City, KS
67005

----- Original Message -----
From: Ed
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:08 PM
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Mastercam question


> I am creating a toolpath in Mastercam and have the clearance value
on my
> Contour set at 2".
> However, when I post the output (using the Mach2 post processer as
well as
> others) it starts at Z=0 and goes straight to the XY position of
the start
> of the contour before going to Z of 2".
>
> Does anybody have any ideas to what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris


Chris,
I have used Master Cam some, but I haven't used the Clearance value
at all. I use the Retract value of 0.25, Feed Plane of 0.1
Absolute, Top of stock 0.0 and Depth of cut -0.something. I have a
guy at work that is an expert......I'll ask him your question.

Ed



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