Newbie- Attempting to learn Madcam

[shippman]

I thought I would try something simple just to see if I could produce usable code.

Particulars:

Cutting a cylinder out of a block.
Both cylinder and block are centered around the X axis
Post processor is Mach3_inch_4-axis

The toolpath that I get cuts the lower 3/4s out leaving no toolpath from 315 degrees around to 45 degrees.

Any hints?

Thanks,
Mike

[turmite]

Hi Mike,

From looking at the bmp, it almost looks as if your rotational limits are set for less than a 360 rotation. Can you check that and see if that is the case?

Mike

[turmite]

I just talked with Joakim about this issue and he informed me that this was in fact a bug that has been fixed in service release 2.

Mike

[shippman]

Thanks for the reply!! I just downloaded SR2 and it did solve my problem.

Now back to that learning stuff...

Thanks again

Mike