Manufacturing (CAM)

To All,I have a M660 and have read that this machine allows for multiple monitors to be used.I have not been able to set up more than two displays for this. i have two monitors and the laptop, but cannot get all three to work.If someone has a suggestion, or solution to how to get the three working, it would be apprciated.I don't know if it is a driver issue, or what, but figured I would start here in asking.DennisThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

How do I rename subroutine patterns to something more meaningful than the software generated names "Ind Pat # 1" "Ind Pat # 2"?This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hello all, I am using Creo 2.0 and I have a job that requires drilling around the perimeter on a horizontal machine, I would like to set my coordinate system at the center of rotation, and use a single coordinate system rather than a unique one for every hole position, is this possible? Thanks in advance!This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

When trying to create a roughing sequence the toolpath goes outside of the mill window. I need to control this because I have side clamps on my part. I have the mill window set to keep tool inside of the window. When I use the same mill window and use Volume Rough it works fine. Has anyone ever had a problem with this?I am using CREO 2.0 M050This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

I've looked on here for some information but with no luck. I need to be able to add centerlines to arcs when I am making final manufacturing drawings. I know how to get the typical holes, but I need another way to add them to slots for example. ThanksThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Would anyone like to share a post for Makino U32J wire?Thanks!Craig Broetzmanncbroetzm@strattec.com414-861-5097This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

I have a job that needs to get done on a CNC router bed. The owner says that the DXF file needs to be all polylines. That is so 1980's!   DXF exports have been using lines, arcs, and ellipses since Autocad 13. Why am I being told that Enroute requires polylines? Is it just the owner seeing jaggies on the screen and calling foul? Should the tool offsets recognize the ellipses and properly interpolate them?   I really don't want to go through the effort of trying to make polylines out of every form that I need processed.   Alternatively, is there a DXF converter that will make polylines out of every entity in the file?This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledge

Hi,Can anybody help with downloading fanuc 310IS and f31ib contollersif readily available? or best way to learn how to create PP for the mentioned series.We need to use the output in Makino and Moriseiki machines respectively.--DhineshThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

I have a roughing sequence with a sketched window.750 diameter high feed mill pictured below.It works great. I then do a rerough to tighten up the corners with a solid carbide .375 high feed end mill and it drops into the core holes. I don't want it to drop into the core holes but I don't see a way to exclude surfaces in the re - rough routine. with regular volume roughing with a mill window. you can exclude surfaces? am I missing an exclude command somewhere or did that get left out of the rerough.anyone have any ideas?This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

It would be nice to be able to exclude surfaces from the mill window roughing and reroughing seqences. this is available with mill volumes and some types of mill windows but not with the rough and re rough seqences. The situation I have is I rough a part with several holes and protrusions using a mill window and a large diameter cutter. the holes are smaller diameter than the roughing cutter so the roughing cutter never drops in the holes. When reroughing the same Part to tighten corners (remove more stock in the corners) with a smaller diameter tool. that tool will drop into the holes which is not desired and there is no way top stop this from happening that I can see.This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are usin

Using Wildfire 5 and PDMLink 10.1.Got an e-mail from our Windchill admins with this message "Windchill reporting has identified you with over 15 PDMLink Workspace Frames, this may have negative performance impact on the ... Windchill System".My understanding is that PDMLink frames don't interact with the server at all. They are a feature available in the client side workspace (and is unique to Pro/Engineer?). The server-side workspace doesn't have frames. Is my understanding incorrect or our admins manufacturing a problem?This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

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Hello when playing toolpath, the NC Check option is gone. (to play Vericut)I believed it was there some days ago....Maybe someone can clear this up?thanks,bernThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hello,I have a ProNC turning sequence with 2 toolpaths.I can play them individuallly with Vericut.How can I play toolpath 1 and toolpath 2 in Vericut in one go?thanks,bernThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hello,Just doing some manufacturing basics in Pro Engineer Wildfire 5.ProNC, Milling..Where can I find the FIXTURES to use in the manufacturing process (models of fixture parts)?Are they included with wildfire 5 or do I have to install them?thanks,bernardThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Is there a way to create an operation and have sequences that have already been created change to this operation? I am using Creo 2 M040.

I need some help with a 'Mill Window' roughing sequence. The tool is coming down tangent to the 'Stock' which is not safe. I would like the tool to plunge in the space around the material. Does anyone know how to set a boundary or an offset for that?Thanks!This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hello Every One: I need to know can we make part and mold for MIM (Metal injection molding). the mostly part in very smaller see the picture. any one guide me? with best regards,   ADNANThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

At present it is not possible to create a conic hole using the machining module.This should be made possible.This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

Hi all,I'm working on setting up procedures for using Vericut to verify 4th axis work from ProNC.My problem is that I can not get Vericut to show motion when the rotary is moving (i.e. when the tool axis is changing). For simplicity's sake, I am working with a 3" cube. When I have the tool .1" above the center of a face, and turn the rotary 90° to the next face, I should get a collision. However, Vericut jumps from the first tool axis (perpendicular to the first face) directly to the second tool axis (perpendicular to the second face) and doesn't catch the collision. Play Path in ProNC behaves the same way, but at least it animates the tool orientation during the move.The parts we make are much more complicated than a simple cube, so I'm hoping to use Vericut for catching collisions. Has anyone been able to make it work or have any pointers for setting it up?I'm running 5.0 build M080.This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide

HI eveveryone would it annoy you if another programmer changed your program's without mentioning it to you? We have a new programmer who changes ever programme I've done . What procedure does your company have?

The support have tell me to post here, to maybe have my little problem resolve. To be able to punch a part with a CNC, with a nibbling sequence in arc, with a G code, instead of point by point, one line of code is missing in one of the installation file of Creo. Every time that I make a update of my software, I have to edit one of the file. The file is located in this directory: C:\Program Files\PTC\Creo 2.0\Common Files\M040\i486_nt\gpostand the file is: uncmil.v00I have to add at the end the line PPWORD/BOLTC,3192Does it's possible to add this line in the file? This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.

A problem I have been having with Pro/Engineer for years involves offsetting or thickening surfaces. When the radius of the surface drops below zero the offset fails. Why can’t Pro/E just create a sharp edge at the corner? I can sort out any manufacturing problems later, I just need my model to work.   I thought this must be down to some incredibly difficult programming problem, but found Catia just asks if you want to swallow the surfaces, then gets on with it. I’ve now found even Autodesk Inventor just thickens the surface adding a sharp corner.   The Automatic Offset option in Pro/E is in reality of little use to me, I just want a sharp corner at the offset. With all its advanced and extremely expensive surfacing capability, what use is a zero-thickness surface when I want to actually make something? Do PTC plan on sorting the shortcoming out? I am seriously considering switching software for this capability alone as the lack of it has wasted me countless hours.   Do

Hi,Another 'straight forward' model.only 12 contactspart accuracies are resonably close to each other (certainly, adjacent offending parts are)The last time I encountered this type of problem, the contacts produced contact force measures that are 'zero' value in the summary file ...This time, different customer, different models, the contacts completely disappear.The force measures aren't reported in the summary file; they simply aren't in the list in summary file, where did they go? They are still in the model tree and so are the interfaces.The contacting surfaces that are causing problems don't show in the post processor when reviewing contact pressure, (not there in other words).(I can't submit the model to cs unfortunately).Models created in WF4 M150.70k elements, WF4 M150, DELL 64 bit.Any thoughts gratefully chewed over.ThanksThis thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the mode

I would be interested to hear your success stories and/or lessons learned in the arena of documentation for global manufacturing. Specifically, how do you document your design when it could be made in NAFTA, EMEA, or China and handle the different unit requirements,tolerance standards, languages, etc.?This thread is inactive and closed by the PTC Community Management Team. If you would like to provide a reply and re-open this thread, please notify the moderator and reference the thread. You may also use "Start a topic" button to ask a new question. Please be sure to include what version of the PTC product you are using so another community member knowledgeable about your version may be able to assist.