NeedForFeed
Plastic
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2020
Hi guys. I've been using Mastercam 2019 for about a year now and am fairly adept with it, but I've been having issues today that have never come up before. The first is that I am working on 2 levels of a simple part. The only difference between the two is that one level is the front half and the second is the back, and the front end has a groove for a clip ring. I was backplotting my program before writing the operations for the second level, and I noticed that when it switches between my grooving tool & center drill and again between the center drill & drill that it adds 2 entities to that level. There's nothing in the graphics window like any new lines/points or anything, but just going back and forth in backplotting for a couple minutes it added over a hundred new entities. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
My second issue began as I was writing my program, while everything was all tickety-boo, and I had like 5 or 6 tools programmed, but when I programmed my drill - which I've done a million times - and backplotted it, my drill came in sideways. Not as in the tool was rotated incorrectly, but like when I was in Top view, the drill came in from it's normal home position, but instead of pointing to the left towards my part it was pointing at me (menacingly). I went through all the menus wherein I created the tool, went into "Setup Tool", checked "Tool Angle", and can't figure out how to unf*ck my drill. The only thing I can see that's out of place is that under "Tool Parameters" where you can set the home position either based on the machine, or user-defined, it say X0,Z0 and won't let me change it. I've changed it a bunch of times on other programs for whatever reason and I know how to, but even when I click on "define" and input my own coordinates, it just doesn't change in the window. When I'm backplotting it appears to come from my normal home position, so normally I'd just chalk it up to just "some strange sh*t" but now I'm thinking it might be related to my sideways drill. Maybe?
Any ideas or suggestions on how to fix any of this would be much appreciated, because like I said, this has never happened to me before (I swear!) and it's really harshing my mellow right now. If you need clarification on something, please ask, because I can sometimes be bad at explaining things. Thanks in advance,
Utterly yours,
- Jordan
My second issue began as I was writing my program, while everything was all tickety-boo, and I had like 5 or 6 tools programmed, but when I programmed my drill - which I've done a million times - and backplotted it, my drill came in sideways. Not as in the tool was rotated incorrectly, but like when I was in Top view, the drill came in from it's normal home position, but instead of pointing to the left towards my part it was pointing at me (menacingly). I went through all the menus wherein I created the tool, went into "Setup Tool", checked "Tool Angle", and can't figure out how to unf*ck my drill. The only thing I can see that's out of place is that under "Tool Parameters" where you can set the home position either based on the machine, or user-defined, it say X0,Z0 and won't let me change it. I've changed it a bunch of times on other programs for whatever reason and I know how to, but even when I click on "define" and input my own coordinates, it just doesn't change in the window. When I'm backplotting it appears to come from my normal home position, so normally I'd just chalk it up to just "some strange sh*t" but now I'm thinking it might be related to my sideways drill. Maybe?
Any ideas or suggestions on how to fix any of this would be much appreciated, because like I said, this has never happened to me before (I swear!) and it's really harshing my mellow right now. If you need clarification on something, please ask, because I can sometimes be bad at explaining things. Thanks in advance,
Utterly yours,
- Jordan