The main gist of the conversation was whether it mattered with a multiaxis toolpath to have all of your planes set to Top/Top/Top (abbreviated as T/T/T), because Motor-Vater was surprised to see that it worked fine to output it as Top/Front/Front or any other combination of Top/Xxx/Xxx. No problem, I intermixed the current state of Mastercam with things that directly affected Motor-Vater, since I had originally trained him in Mastercam back in the X4 days, and a lot of what was necessary then doesn't apply anymore. It seems like you are speaking in a shorthand language, that you guys certainly know, buy I, sadly do not. I truly am not trying to be rude or obtuse, but I don't understand what y'all are saying here. So the important thing to remember nowadays is that whenever you interact with an X,Y,Z in a multiaxis toolpath (Lock to 4 axis and rotate around Y, Limit the XZ plane motion, Fixed Angle to X, Retract Along Z, etc.), all of those X Y Zs are relative to whatever WCS the toolpath is in. Because of the way you were digitizing on the machine at the time, the that plane inversion would alter the commanded positions of the probe, so on a digitizing Flow 5 Axis toolpath, it was REALLLY important make sure it was in Top/Top/Top before posting. Changing from T/T/T to T/F/F will only change the way the data is stored in the background NCI (if you care, it goes from saving it as XYZIJK to XZYIKJ). That was my first release as the Product Owner *sniff* Back when I trained you (X4?), it was REALLLY important to always have a multiaxis toolpath set in the Top WCS.īasically, a plane is more or less irrelevant to a multiaxis toolpath (if you have one curve toolpath that starts on the front and then continues around on the side, what "plane" is that toolpath on?"), but the WCS is really important to us. Yep, as Ron said, starting with X9, all of the multiaxis toolpaths became WCS aware. With the Moduleworks toolpaths pay close attention to your linking and you will see how much that control your in and out motion and how certain settings can hurt or help your process. Yes still many that have this ability with their machine programming COR and have to repost anytime the part moves from the COR verses using the machine the way the technology was meant to be used to help them be more efficient. We start talking about DWO and TCP and use the machine to control the COR as it should be and now we really see T/T/T is not important either.
#MASTERCAM X4 HOLE PLANE SOFTWARE#
When they locked that down they gained the control needed in the software to have a base point for reference that was lacking. T/T/T it not required for many versions and yes years ago that was the only way, but major improvements have been made to make Mastercam WCS aware why we lost the ability to change the name and positions of the base planes. I have found the biggest thing with the 5 axis toolpaths is just know what you know and control what your not sure about and everything from that point is not a problem. I work with a lot of different machines and do a lot of different work so planes and WCS are my friend. I am not sure if the new backplot engine that does the verify cares about the planes as I never use it. The planes are being respected by the traditional backplot, but that may not be the same as what you see on the machine.
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