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Members can post questions, comments or share projects and success stories. Visit eMastercam. Parallel toolpath with To Curve option. Machine Simulation. Morph toolpath with From Curves option. Tutorial Toolpath Creation 4 Rotary Advanced toolpath. Morph Curves toolpath. Parallel To Surface toolpath. Parallel To Curves toolpath. Transform Rotate toolpaths to machine the entire impeller.

Tilt tool away using a side tilt angle. Retract tool along tool axis. Getting Started General Notes Quiz Answers This tutorial covers Mastercam’s 5 Axis toolpath functionality. To apply these toolpaths to a 5 Axis machine tool, a customized post processor for your machine is required. There are no default 5 Axis post processors included with Mastercam due to the variation in multi-axis machine configurations.

Contact your Mastercam reseller to request post processor services such as multi-axis post development. Your post processor may require certain additional programming information not covered in this tutorial. For instance: You may be required to position your stock in machine space rather than at Mastercam’s origin. You may be required to use the Misc Values. Your post may also prompt you for tool gage lengths.

The nature of the additional information required largely depends on your machine’s configuration. Contact the developer of your post processor for details. MCAM” from the directory you saved the file in. In Mastercam, you select a Machine Definition before creating any toolpaths. The Machine Definition is a model of your machine tool’s capabilities and features and acts like a template for setting up machining jobs.

Default program number is used to enter a number if your machine tool requires a number for a program name. Assign tool numbers sequentially allows you to overwrite the tool number from the library with the next available tool number First operation tool number 1; Second operation tool number 2, etc.

Warn of duplicate tool numbers allows you to get a warning if you enter two tools with the same number. Override defaults with modal values enables the system to keep the values that you enter. Feed Calculation set From tool uses feed rate, plunge rate, retract rate and spindle speed from the tool definition.

Figure: 2. NOTE: Remember that the stock is not geometry and cannot be selected. You will use the defined stock while verifying the part. Advanced Multiaxis provides enhanced 5 Axis multisurface machining strategies. You can work with the full interface that gives you access to all the available parameters and options. You can also choose from a number of simplified interfaces that have been customized for specific applications and machining strategies.

These toolpaths work on surfaces. Solid selection is available for most advanced multiaxis toolpath strategies, with the following exceptions: toolpaths that require the selection of a defined edge solid edge and toolpaths that require the selection of only a single surface solid face.

Project Curve is a toolpath that follows a curve that has been projected onto a set of surfaces. This is useful for engraving and similar applications. Projection curves should lie on or above the surface, within the maximum projection distance. The Toolpath Type page allows you to establish the type of multiaxis toolpath to create.

The toolpath type controls the options available as you proceed down the tree structure. The Toolpath Type page allows you to select between the two toolpath groups, Pattern or Applications. You can then choose one of the toolpaths inside of that group. The Tool page allows you to select a tool, set the feeds and speeds, enter a comment about the operation, and set other general toolpath parameters.

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Robot Programming www. Implementing successful post processors for decades, the post department at In-House Solutions has earned a reputation for quality, resulting in one of the largest post departments in the world. We have an extensive library that is continually developed and expanded to include current machines and controllers. If a post is not already available, we will develop a custom one for nearly any machine. We have great relationships with OEMs who provide technical information for both machines and controls, which in turn allows us to produce post processors that will generate edit-free code and run your machine efficiently.

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Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of implied warranties or liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. Copyrights This manual is protected under International copyright laws. All rights are reserved. This document may not, in whole or part, be copied, photographed, reproduced, translated or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable form without prior consent, in writing, from In-House Solutions Inc.

We have training facilities in a number of cities across Canada and some of our courses can also be offered onsite, depending on trainer availability. Learn more at eMastercam. Our library of Mastercam Training Solutions consists of several product lines that cater to any learning style.

Mastercam Community eMastercam is the one-stop web resource for Mastercam users. People from all over the world visit the site whether they are teaching, learning or working with Mastercam daily.

Members can post questions, comments or share projects and success stories. Visit eMastercam. Parallel toolpath with To Curve option. Machine Simulation. Morph toolpath with From Curves option. Tutorial Toolpath Creation 4 Rotary Advanced toolpath. Morph Curves toolpath. Parallel To Surface toolpath. Parallel To Curves toolpath. Transform Rotate toolpaths to machine the entire impeller.

Tilt tool away using a side tilt angle. Retract tool along tool axis. Getting Started General Notes Quiz Answers This tutorial covers Mastercam’s 5 Axis toolpath functionality. To apply these toolpaths to a 5 Axis machine tool, a customized post processor for your machine is required. There are no default 5 Axis post processors included with Mastercam due to the variation in multi-axis machine configurations.

Contact your Mastercam reseller to request post processor services such as multi-axis post development. Your post processor may require certain additional programming information not covered in this tutorial. For instance: You may be required to position your stock in machine space rather than at Mastercam’s origin. You may be required to use the Misc Values. Your post may also prompt you for tool gage lengths. The nature of the additional information required largely depends on your machine’s configuration.

Contact the developer of your post processor for details. MCAM” from the directory you saved the file in. In Mastercam, you select a Machine Definition before creating any toolpaths.

The Machine Definition is a model of your machine tool’s capabilities and features and acts like a template for setting up machining jobs. Default program number is used to enter a number if your machine tool requires a number for a program name. Assign tool numbers sequentially allows you to overwrite the tool number from the library with the next available tool number First operation tool number 1; Second operation tool number 2, etc.

Warn of duplicate tool numbers allows you to get a warning if you enter two tools with the same number. Override defaults with modal values enables the system to keep the values that you enter. Feed Calculation set From tool uses feed rate, plunge rate, retract rate and spindle speed from the tool definition.

Figure: 2. NOTE: Remember that the stock is not geometry and cannot be selected. You will use the defined stock while verifying the part.

Advanced Multiaxis provides enhanced 5 Axis multisurface machining strategies. You can work with the full interface that gives you access to all the available parameters and options. You can also choose from a number of simplified interfaces that have been customized for specific applications and machining strategies. These toolpaths work on surfaces. Solid selection is available for most advanced multiaxis toolpath strategies, with the following exceptions: toolpaths that require the selection of a defined edge solid edge and toolpaths that require the selection of only a single surface solid face.

Project Curve is a toolpath that follows a curve that has been projected onto a set of surfaces. This is useful for engraving and similar applications. Projection curves should lie on or above the surface, within the maximum projection distance.

The Toolpath Type page allows you to establish the type of multiaxis toolpath to create. The toolpath type controls the options available as you proceed down the tree structure.

The Toolpath Type page allows you to select between the two toolpath groups, Pattern or Applications. You can then choose one of the toolpaths inside of that group.

The Tool page allows you to select a tool, set the feeds and speeds, enter a comment about the operation, and set other general toolpath parameters. Numerics Collision Control Machining Angle In Z Swarf Clearance Angle Step Discover other Mastercam Training Solutions at www. Training Solutions Available :. I bet your lost with me trying to explain it, but if I show you exactly what I am seeing, instantly you will know what I am trying to convey. There are so many options to click and try.

Like anything else it takes time. I too have recently entered the fifth axis world , and I would have agree that it is kind of tough , especially when you have no training or help. So glad to have this forum to turn to when I get stumped , there are a lot of smart people here. I programmed my first part with 5axis moves tonight. I must of learned more than I realized.

I actually am starting to understand this stuff just a little. Now that can use the Curve toolpath. Time to learn some of the other multi Axis toolpaths like Parallel and Swarf and Flow.

I’m not sure that I will be using very many of these tool paths to do the kind of stuff we do.. Like I said before, we trim out parts from thermo-molded plastics.

Lots of side cutting and holes. I do also need to learn the drilling operations. For the holes in this part I just created an edge chain of the hole, lowered it.

Then used the 5 Axis curve to cut the holes. I need to. Also I need to learn how to set up multiple passes on each of the toolpaths. I’ll use the multiple passes as a rough cut then a finish cut laslty I want to use a debit lolipop mill to Chamfer some of the edges. The very next thing I need to learn is how to set up the Simulator to match our machine and to mock up our fixture heights so we can test for clearances and such. Oh also I want to set up a location hole for setup parts, so when the boys in the shop set up a new job that is they can get the locator dial lined up in the hole on a setup part, the X,y,z will be registered perfectly.

Take the 2 day. Hope everyone now doing well. I just thought I would share a little bit of my progress. If it doesn’t click on the line and it will switch directions. It isn’t easy, because there is a ton of mathematics taking place in the background behind all of these operations.

We’re standing on the shoulders of giants, and using the tools they have built for us, to make thousands, or millions of calculations, in order to make our machines dance the way we want them to, and also accurately cut a part. To be fair; you jumped into the deep end of the pool, without a lot of training, when you decided to pick up 5-Axis machining as the thing you were starting with.

Also throw in 2-Axis and 4-Axis Lathes into the mix. There is just a lot to learn, but the sky’s the limit in this industry, if you keep on increasing your skills. Part of learning how to machine these parts is learning how to construct and work with both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional geometry. The best thing about CNC Programming for me is that you can see a direct link between mathematics and constructing “real world” things.

In order for you to reduce setup time, you’ve got to understand how the Post Processor works, and how your machine is setup in the real world. Since you’ve got a “gantry router”, your machine has “head-head” geometry.

To properly set up a Post Processor, you will need to be able to take some physical measurements on your machine, so we can calculate the “pivot distance” between your center of rotation, and the “face of the spindle”. Then, you’ll need to accurately measure the “Gauge length” of each ‘Tool Assembly’.

This is the distance from your reference point on the spindle face, typically , to the tool tip. That way, if you were using “T43”, you knew it was a specific length. Inside the Post Processor, this Pivot Length and Tool Length get added together, to offset “the driven point” of the machine, relative to the Tool Tip. This is the “original” or “old-school” of mechanical compensation, where people made 5-Axis programs before “software compensation methods”, like Tilted Work Plane G What are you doing this coming Saturday?

Do you want to try and do a “live session” on YouTube? For training purposes, nothing beats “real interaction” with an instructor. It will depend of course on if I’m in the middle of moving, or not. Some things are still up in the air at the moment. I just started programming in 5 axis.

Big learning curve. It is crazy the math and science that goes into these machines! It has turning and milling capabilities. Nice machine. That photo brings back a lot of memories I did have about 10 years of 3 axis programming experience prior tho I would just pull the wires off the inside edge of the part and then create and edit Tool Axis Control lines until it looked good in backplot.

There may be a better way but this was simple and I like simple! Another thing I would strongly recommend is learning how Tool Center Point which btw, is G48 on the Fagor controllers works and how to use it One more suggestion then I’ll quit my babbling If you put a negative number in it will lower your toolpath.

I’m not even sure if the newer version use Moldplus? I jumped into 5 Axis because this is what the other programmer was doing and I wanted to learn. I have played with several 3D packages in Modeling and Animation. Check out this. I was always the guy a friends would reach out to with a problem because I would read the manual and make stuff work, This led me to many hobbies and several businesses.

I have been playing if electronics and PC’s since I was a kid and I am old now, In my custom bike shop I built the whole bike and used a Bridgeport and a Monarch lathe to make all the parts and notch my tubing. Tig welded my frames, fabbed and welded my own gas tanks, painted everything and would do and the engine and tranny work once the various kits came in from the machinist.

I literally was a stay at home dad for 5 years and this job came up really close to my house and I told the man when he hired me that if you give me 6 months I’ll run that whole department, and program all his parts 1 am at 1 month 2 weeks, I plan to make my goals with the help of you folks.

I never thought I would be learning a new trade at this late in the game. I have always been the one to be helping others, now I find myself being the one with hat in hand,. This is amazing,, I know Exactly how I will use it. I can put in a positive number and copy and paste all of the operations made with Curve and use it as roughing passes.

I want this so badly. I am used to making polygon, point, edge, face, heck any geometry slelections in a simple way Similar to the Auto in Moldplus when using different 3D modeling software programs. Loop selections of edges, splines, and points are invaluable and make 3D modeling much easier vs selecting various geometry one face at a time. I know there are many ways to make selections in Mastercam, however they are not as intuitive as they are in many of other Nurbs Modelers I have worked with.

It is a very nice interface, which makes creating and editing the path very easy.

 
 

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This message will be removed once you have signed in. I just wanted to publicly celebrate a milestone for me. I can now generate some basic 5 axis tool paths in Mastercam. Colon G. Is the man, he is the man responsible for helping me understand what I was doing wrong. I have so much to learn, but it feels amazing to actually set up a model with drive lines, set the axis I want the Spindle to follow and it actually work.

I still need to gain better control of the spindle position. When using the Curve 5 axis. I need to learn how to switch from Axis control via Line to Around a point and blend the 2 operations into a single cut. Trying to describe what I would like to learn with a very limited mastercam vocabulary is very challenging.

I bet your lost with me trying to explain it, but if I show you exactly what I am seeing, instantly you will know what I am trying to convey.

There are so many options to click and try. Like anything else it takes time. I too have recently entered the fifth axis world , and I would have agree that it is kind of tough , especially when you have no training or help. So glad to have this forum to turn to when I get stumped , there are a lot of smart people here.

I programmed my first part with 5axis moves tonight. I must of learned more than I realized. I actually am starting to understand this stuff just a little. Now that can use the Curve toolpath. Time to learn some of the other multi Axis toolpaths like Parallel and Swarf and Flow. I’m not sure that I will be using very many of these tool paths to do the kind of stuff we do.. Like I said before, we trim out parts from thermo-molded plastics.

Lots of side cutting and holes. I do also need to learn the drilling operations. For the holes in this part I just created an edge chain of the hole, lowered it. Then used the 5 Axis curve to cut the holes. I need to. Also I need to learn how to set up multiple passes on each of the toolpaths. I’ll use the multiple passes as a rough cut then a finish cut laslty I want to use a debit lolipop mill to Chamfer some of the edges. The very next thing I need to learn is how to set up the Simulator to match our machine and to mock up our fixture heights so we can test for clearances and such.

Oh also I want to set up a location hole for setup parts, so when the boys in the shop set up a new job that is they can get the locator dial lined up in the hole on a setup part, the X,y,z will be registered perfectly. Take the 2 day. Hope everyone now doing well.

I just thought I would share a little bit of my progress. If it doesn’t click on the line and it will switch directions. It isn’t easy, because there is a ton of mathematics taking place in the background behind all of these operations. We’re standing on the shoulders of giants, and using the tools they have built for us, to make thousands, or millions of calculations, in order to make our machines dance the way we want them to, and also accurately cut a part.

To be fair; you jumped into the deep end of the pool, without a lot of training, when you decided to pick up 5-Axis machining as the thing you were starting with. Also throw in 2-Axis and 4-Axis Lathes into the mix. There is just a lot to learn, but the sky’s the limit in this industry, if you keep on increasing your skills. Part of learning how to machine these parts is learning how to construct and work with both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional geometry.

The best thing about CNC Programming for me is that you can see a direct link between mathematics and constructing “real world” things. In order for you to reduce setup time, you’ve got to understand how the Post Processor works, and how your machine is setup in the real world.

Since you’ve got a “gantry router”, your machine has “head-head” geometry. To properly set up a Post Processor, you will need to be able to take some physical measurements on your machine, so we can calculate the “pivot distance” between your center of rotation, and the “face of the spindle”.

Then, you’ll need to accurately measure the “Gauge length” of each ‘Tool Assembly’. This is the distance from your reference point on the spindle face, typically , to the tool tip. That way, if you were using “T43”, you knew it was a specific length. Inside the Post Processor, this Pivot Length and Tool Length get added together, to offset “the driven point” of the machine, relative to the Tool Tip.

This is the “original” or “old-school” of mechanical compensation, where people made 5-Axis programs before “software compensation methods”, like Tilted Work Plane G What are you doing this coming Saturday? Do you want to try and do a “live session” on YouTube?

For training purposes, nothing beats “real interaction” with an instructor. It will depend of course on if I’m in the middle of moving, or not. Some things are still up in the air at the moment. I just started programming in 5 axis. Big learning curve. It is crazy the math and science that goes into these machines! It has turning and milling capabilities. Nice machine. That photo brings back a lot of memories I did have about 10 years of 3 axis programming experience prior tho I would just pull the wires off the inside edge of the part and then create and edit Tool Axis Control lines until it looked good in backplot.

There may be a better way but this was simple and I like simple! Another thing I would strongly recommend is learning how Tool Center Point which btw, is G48 on the Fagor controllers works and how to use it One more suggestion then I’ll quit my babbling If you put a negative number in it will lower your toolpath.

I’m not even sure if the newer version use Moldplus? I jumped into 5 Axis because this is what the other programmer was doing and I wanted to learn. I have played with several 3D packages in Modeling and Animation. Check out this. I was always the guy a friends would reach out to with a problem because I would read the manual and make stuff work, This led me to many hobbies and several businesses.

I have been playing if electronics and PC’s since I was a kid and I am old now, In my custom bike shop I built the whole bike and used a Bridgeport and a Monarch lathe to make all the parts and notch my tubing. Tig welded my frames, fabbed and welded my own gas tanks, painted everything and would do and the engine and tranny work once the various kits came in from the machinist. I literally was a stay at home dad for 5 years and this job came up really close to my house and I told the man when he hired me that if you give me 6 months I’ll run that whole department, and program all his parts 1 am at 1 month 2 weeks, I plan to make my goals with the help of you folks.

I never thought I would be learning a new trade at this late in the game. I have always been the one to be helping others, now I find myself being the one with hat in hand,. This is amazing,, I know Exactly how I will use it. I can put in a positive number and copy and paste all of the operations made with Curve and use it as roughing passes. I want this so badly. I am used to making polygon, point, edge, face, heck any geometry slelections in a simple way Similar to the Auto in Moldplus when using different 3D modeling software programs.

Loop selections of edges, splines, and points are invaluable and make 3D modeling much easier vs selecting various geometry one face at a time. I know there are many ways to make selections in Mastercam, however they are not as intuitive as they are in many of other Nurbs Modelers I have worked with.

It is a very nice interface, which makes creating and editing the path very easy. However, we can still use the existing Toolpath options to create paths without having to struggle, once you learn the various tools you do have access to.

Ini this video, Mold Plus shows an Auto Selection edge selection is made and a 5 Axis tool path is auto generated. I think these kinds of selections should be already in Mastercam, Lets say you are in selection mode, you should be able to decide what you are selecting edges, faces, points, splines, UV’s, ect , then how you want to make the selection, loop,line,point,edge, ect. Almost all of the modelers I have ever used have similar selection methods.

You choose the selection method, you can combine them as well, then hover the area and it gives you a preview of the selection if you were to click and select it. As to the rest of the 5 Axis Mold Plus features, where it generates a 5 Axis tool path automatically and allow you to drag the spingle and or axis control lines to change orientation, this functionality should be standard inside Mastercam. I totally Agree. I am just looking at this from a Newbie Perspective.

Mastercam is a professional software that Businesses pay many thousands of dollars just to have access to the software, then folks make a living knowing the inside and outs of how to program with mastercam. What Mold Plus does is what I kind of expected when I first heard of mastercam, I expected that I would be able to fumble my way through based on past experiences in 3D softwares , but it’s just not the case.

You have to dig in and ask lots of questions. Ahhh, but they are not Open Source.

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