User manual MASTERCAM MILL DESIGN VERSION 9

[. . . ] Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial (Metric version) Mastercam Version 9 Mill Mastercam Version 9 Design © 2002 CNC Software, Inc. 2 Mastercam Version 8 Lathe Applications Guide Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial (Metric version) Date: January 21, 2002 Copyright © 2002 CNC Software, Inc. First Printing: January 21, 2002 Software: Mastercam Mill Version 9, Mastercam Design Version 9 IMPORTANT NOTICE!PLEASE READ THIS STATEMENT AND THE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT COMPLETELY BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE. BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS SOFTWARE, YOU (EITHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR A SINGLE ENTITY) INDICATE YOUR INTENTION TO BE BOUND BY AND ACCEPT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE. [. . . ] Open islands. mc9 from the folder C:\Mcam9\Tutorials\Mill Tutorial\Inch. Choose OK when you see the following message. Note: The configuration file determines which units Mastercam is using. The default files are mill9. cfg for working in inches and mill9m. cfg for metric operations. Mastercam knows which units were used to create a part file and prompts you with the previous message if it needs to switch. Tip: To change the current part drawing from inch to metric, choose Main Menu, Screen, Config. The configuration file is listed in the lower left corner: 214 Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial Pocket and Contour Toolpath Techniques 3. Click near location 1 to select all the boundaries. 1 The Area selection method lets you select an area that is surrounded by a completely closed boundary by clicking inside it. Mastercam automatically knows about the islands inside the pocket when you use this method. When you choose an Island facing pocket type, the settings in this dialog box determine the cutting action Mastercam uses to trim the tops of the islands. Your values should match the following picture. Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial 215 Chapter 10 7. Make sure your other values match the following dialog box. Tip: The actual rough step used by the toolpath might be smaller than the Max rough step entered here. This is because Mastercam calculates equal step sizes (less than or equal to the Max rough step) between the top of stock and the final depth. Your other pocketing parameters should match the following dialog box. 216 Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial Pocket and Contour Toolpath Techniques 12. Enter the values shown on the following dialog box. Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial 217 Chapter 10 14. Enter the values shown on the following dialog box. 218 Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial Pocket and Contour Toolpath Techniques 16. It should look like the following picture. Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial 219 Chapter 10 Verifying the toolpath To get a better picture of the toolpath results, you will use the Verify function. Because it previews the actual stock removal, it will give you a clearer picture of how the islands were machined. You should see the part machined as shown in the following picture. Note: The stock boundary that you see in the Verify picture was already defined for you in the file. Save the file in your working folder as island pocket. mc9. 220 Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial Pocket and Contour Toolpath Techniques Exercise 3 ­ Modifying a toolpath using the Toolpath Editor This exercise shows you how to make corrections to a toolpath using Mastercam's Toolpath Editor. The Toolpath Editor gives you a fine level of control over the motion in your toolpath. You can make modifications to the tool motion created by Mastercam and change the areas of the part that are machined. In this exercise, the part drawing shows the clamps that you will use to hold the part while it is being machined. You will backplot the toolpath to see if the clamps interfere with it, and then modify it so that the tool doesn't make contact with the clamps. [. . . ] The buttons are arranged in pages to which the user can scroll; may be moved and reassigned. To translate, mirror, rotate, scale, offset stretch, or roll geometry or toolpaths. To move or copy geometry or toolpaths to a new location without changing orientation. To act as a boundary for a entity or surface. Tools Manager tool origin tool plane (Tplane) toolbar toolpath Tplane transform translate trim Mastercam Version 9 Mill/Design Tutorial 437 Chapter 18 trim/extend surface trimmed surface A surface created by trimming or extending existing surfaces. [. . . ]