Ive been a mill turn user for almost 2 years. I do a lot of programming in cimco because of tool loading issues in mill turn. Ive done some jobs dropping a part into an existing job but I got the tool loading fix a few months ago and tried to settup a job today correctly and it was difficult.
Maybe im supposed to merge before opening the mill turn machine file? I opened the machine and then merged, because it didn't seem part settup wanted to work without the part present.
It was very difficult and I restarted the process several times. The trouble was the part wasnt comming in correctly on a wcs. The align to z function didnt really seem to work. I got the part in the software finally and through trial and error and several translate operations, and got the stock to be correctly overlapping the part, and oriented the way my radial milling function would have been presented to x in lathe and it seemed to create an alternate wcs to top and the part spun in the environment when i milled it. Code was ok but I would really like to see how a merge and job settup was supposed to go in a video demo that actually included the merge.
I took some training but mill turn had many problems that took several years to be fixed so Ive lost whatever learning occurred. This demonstrates how worthless person to person training is for long term resolution (you cant lookup a memory like playing a video)
This is why video examples are reasonable and normal for cam products. A customer shouldnt be expected to re-train constantly on basic functions.
I find part settup to be one of the hardest functions of mastercam. Ive watched many different videos on translate but they always seem easier on video than they are in real life. Things like clicking the gnomen ball and hoping to be able to then click a wcs and finding that the cursor wont snap to position on the wcs. Really dumb **** that just makes it awkward, slow and terrible to get to square one to begin programming.
The requirements are simple i need a cylinder face on center on the g54 wcs and the orientation may need to be radially correct. I dont understand why it is so difficult to do that.