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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: MasterCAM for Solidworks to Mach 3

« on: November 28, 2015, 02:33:40 AM »

Thanks. Yeah, once I tried setting it up the way you proposed it worked out great. I ran it doing 3d parallel passes for awhile. Eventually I tried to do some 2d contouring and profiling and ran into a new problem. The code will output but when I put it into Mach 3 it seems to get hung up on the IJ circle commands. Does anyone know how to change the settings so Mach 3 can interpret the radii properly? I think once I have that figured out I will be good to go...I mean MasterCAM is still a ridiculously convoluted over priced/bloated Cam program but it is what I have to work with.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: MasterCAM for Solidworks to Mach 3

« on: July 02, 2015, 04:00:25 PM »

I've tried uploading the MasterCAM posts from the mach 3 post processor page and I can't get them to work. It looks like MasterCAM for Solidworks uses a different file format...with a lot different formatting. I can open the PST file type (standard versions of Mastercam use this format for their Posting script) in Notepad and can actually make sense of all the I/O commands and such ,but the MMD is a scattered mess that isn't legible with Notepad. I finally got a response from MasterCAM that could give me some hope though. So hopefuly I can get it all up and running next week. I'm definitely going to post it up for anyone else who might happen to be running the same setup. Thanks.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: MasterCAM for Solidworks to Mach 3

« on: July 02, 2015, 11:15:45 AM »

Called up MasterCAM and they redirected me to my local reseller who I had already spoken with and didn't know what Mach 3 was. It has a post editor, but I don't know enough about the difference in coding to make the changes myself. There is no error message on the IJs. The compile however stops on them when I load up the code into Mach 3. Then if I try to run the program it goes to the first line of I and J's and stops. It's only an assumption on my part as to whether it is actually a problem. I cam going to go over the code I've created for my part tonight and compare it to a program I know works on my machine and see what is different in the code. Thanks though.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / MasterCAM for Solidworks to Mach 3

« on: July 01, 2015, 03:30:03 PM »

I am using Solidworks to design my parts and I have the add-in MasterCAM for Solidworks to build my tool-paths and output my g-code. I've tried adding in the MasterCAM X8 post-processor for Mach3 to output my files. I recently saw something about using the update.dll in C-hooks to update the post-processor and I haven't tried this yet. I will be trying it tonight , but I wanted to get this out there to see if anyone knew of a way to get the output for MasterCAM for Solidworks formatted properly. I have noticed that when Mach3 reviews the code in loading that it hangs on what is probably the first IJ command and I wanted to also know if Mach 3 doesn't do IJ interpolation. I've out-put as a standard FANUC post format, and I still have this problem. Could I remedy this by setting all my output to incremental? Just throwing out ideas. Hopefully someone on here knows how to get the correct post-processor for MasterCAM for SW working and I can solve this issue. Thanks.