Oops. Sorry. Mike only sent it to me so when I hit reply to all, no one else got it. So here it is:
Thanks. Setting Clearance AND Prof Top to "no" did the trick. Now to position the tool for the first cut, I can just place a point .05 or .1 above the top of the part, correct? Regards, Pete -----Original Message----- From: Bill Payter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 12:07 PM To: Bill Payter; SmartCAM Users Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] Problems I'M GOING TO GIVE UP ON YOU BLOKES. BELOW IS A COPY OF MY REPLY POSTED SIX HOURS AGO WITH ANSWERS TO KEVIN'S, PETE'S AND JEREMY'S PROBLEMS. HOW MANY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DID I GET? NOT BLOODY ONE. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Payter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SmartCAM Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:27 AM Subject: [mfg-smartcam] Problems > Kevin, > > Your logic should read:- > > #IF(#TOOL=1575, #OR#TOOL=1576)<#CALL(BAKSPT)> > > > > Pete, > > Both the points (or lines or arcs or whatever) you are going from and to > must have no clearance and no profile top. > > > > Jeremy, > > You can create a helix with cutter comp but you must do as follows:- > > Create the helix with the tool but without cutter comp. Add your lead-in and > out moves but draw them as lines and arcs, do not use lead-in and out in > geometry edit. You should now have five elements in this order, line, arc, > helix, arc, line. Group the helix and the two arcs and using edit-property > change - toolpath change the offset to left or right as required. The helix > will now have cutter comp. > NOTE WELL...this will not show correctly in show path, check your code > output, if your code generator is correct the code will be correct. > > Happy programming, > > Bill. > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== > > ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
