Lets say you have programmed a "left hand" part with 20 operations.You now wish to program the "right hand" part and mirror the toolpathsand then transform them for 3 vises (G54, G55, G56). The only way Ican do this in Mastercam X2 MR2 SP1 is to mirror each toolpathindividually (that would be 20 mirrored toolpaths) and then transformall the mirrored toolpaths. What I would like to be able to do is tomirror all the toolpath at once and transform them rather than beingforced to mirror each toolpath individually (in this case 20 times.).I've tried to do this with no luck in Mastercam.I'm told I can't do this.Can your CADCAM system do this?Jon BanquerSan Diego, CA

Not the answer you're looking for I'm aware so I'll probably get flamedfor this, but that is what sub programs are for, Jon.Mirroring toolpaths is generally not a good idea anyway, Mastercamdoesn't do a very good job of it. If you want to maintain climb millingwhen contouring you need to mirror and reverse the toolpath. Acu-Carvhad that perfected. However, mirror and reverse a roughing path and thelast pass gets cut first. Oops! If you're programming with cutter / wearcomp, you're in even deeper shit, Mastercam will start switching left /right - G41 / G42 at random. Good luck with that.Mirror your geometry, copy your operations and reselect the new geometry.For using different fixture / work offsets sometimes I use Manual Entry. It is even less work if you modify the post to remove the parentheses around the manual entry in the posted code, you won't have to edit thecode to remove them. Especially useful for 1GB+ surfacing programs. :)

Can Your CADCAM system do this?

Sep 13, 2008 41 Replies

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John R. Carroll 17 years ago

Designed and built for 35 years. I still do both when it's required.

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vinny 17 years ago

Unless you want this to keep going, i'd suggest you refrain from calling me an amature or a pirated cam user. But...If you want to bring this to the next level...knock yourself out... Your call.

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