[ianober]

I am just running through some of the tutorials in the manual and have hit this problem in more than one. I try to generate a tool path on this basic facing operation and it comes out all screwed up, any ideas?

I attached a word doc of the problem. The path should be completely vertical but it is slanted, not sure why.

Forgot to mention that I am running V21.

[mmc005]

This could be caused by a couple of things. Make sure that you choose the vertical line first when your picking your geometry for facing. Also, check to make sure that the direction of the lines go from front to back and from center to od. Upload your file so we have a better idea of why this is happening.

[Allen123]

First off you are turning a part.

It might be a good idea just to use your canned cycle from your machine instead of having BobCAD generate the tool path.

Depending on your post these canned cycles may be built in. I used the Fanuc 18I

Draw the profile you want to face

Select the profile and then go to the NC cam and choose the face canned cycle.




A window will pop up asking questions about the cycle fill in the blanks click ok




and then code will come up.

N10 G72 W.05 R.1
N20 G72 P30 QU.015 W.02 F3
N30 G0 X-0.0026 0113
N40 G1 X-1.2682 F20.
N50 Y5.605
N60 G70 P30 Q


Depending on what post you are using these steps will be different.

*** You can see I have something wrong because the Q is not calling what line of code to go to....





I think the issue with your file is you didn't have the boundary setup right. Try it again using a boundary like this.



This is what your tool path should look like. And you code will look like this:

N10 G0 X-0.0031 Z0.0472
N20 G1 Z-0.0028 F20.
N30 G2 X0.0111 Z-0.0205 I-0.0017 K-0.0159
N40 G1 Z-0.1028
N50 X5.5875
N60 Z-0.0028
N70 X5.5375
N80 G0 X0.1111
N90 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.1028
N100 Z-0.2028
N110 X5.5875
N120 Z-0.1028
N130 X5.5375
N140 G0 X0.1111
N150 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.2029
N160 Z-0.3029
N170 X5.5875
N180 Z-0.2029
N190 X5.5375
N200 G0 X0.1111
N210 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.3029
N220 Z-0.4029
N230 X5.5875
N240 Z-0.3029
N250 X5.5375
N260 G0 X0.1111
N270 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.403
N280 Z-0.503
N290 X5.5875
N300 Z-0.403
N310 X5.5375
N320 G0 X0.1111
N330 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.503
N340 Z-0.603
N350 X5.5875
N360 Z-0.503
N370 X5.5375
N380 G0 X0.1111
N390 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.6031
N400 Z-0.7031
N410 X5.5875
N420 Z-0.6031
N430 X5.5375
N440 G0 X0.1111
N450 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.7031
N460 Z-0.8031
N470 X5.5875
N480 Z-0.7031
N490 X5.5375
N500 G0 X0.1111
N510 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.8032
N520 Z-0.9032
N530 X5.5875
N540 Z-0.8032
N550 X5.5375
N560 G0 X0.1111
N570 G1 X0.0111 Z-0.9032
N580 Z-1.0032
N590 X5.5875
N600 Z-0.9032
N610 X5.5375
N620 G0 X0.1111
N630 G1 X0.0111 Z-1.0033
N640 Z-1.1032
N650 X5.5875
N660 Z-1.0033
N670 X5.5375
N680 G0 X0.1111
N690 G1 X0.0111 Z-1.1033
N700 Z-1.2033
N710 X5.5875
N720 Z-1.1033
N730 X5.5375
N740 G0 X0.1111
N750 G1 X0.0111 Z-1.2034
N760 Z-1.2683
N770 X5.5875
N780 Z-1.2034
N790 X2.7993
N800 G0 Z0.0472

So you can see running the canned cycle is better. Why? Smaller code and if you want to make an adjustment you can just edit the canned cycle.



Sample tool file

[moldmker]

Allen... You're one smart cookie.
All your tool geometries in one file so you don't need to go looking for them in the directory.

Thanks,
moldmker