Hi All,
I have a couple of questions which are frustrating me but that I'm sure are simple enough to fix!
In this example I am simply trying to machine the top of a piece of stock to leave a flat surface. I import the part I want to machine into mastercam, then setup the stock and other relevant properties.
Then when I go to do a surface rough operation I want to set the values for "Stock to leave on drive" as 0mm and the values for "Max Stepdown" as 1mm.
However, Mastercam seems to ignore the Max Stepdown value and just go straight to the Z Height of what should be the final pass. The top of the stock is at Z50 and the top of the finished part should at Z40 so it should do this in 10 steps although it seems to only want to go straight to Z40 which means a cutting depth of 10mm!
Can anyone advise why this is happening?
My second problem is that if I set "Stock to leave on drive" to 0, Mastercam seems to ignore that too and automatically adds 0.2mm to everything.
Everything I know about Mastercam X3 is self taught (or more accurately gleamed from tutorials and figured out through trial and error!) as it happened to be the software my mill was supplied with. As such I'm sure I must just be doing something wrong that I'm not aware of.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!