180 replies to this topic

[newbeeee]

Like the Trim / Extend seperate idea.
Also, be good for CNC to read through the enhancement forum (I'm sure they do) as there are some really good ideas in there.

[wfcPain]

Able to window select 40 arcs and project 40 splines onto a surface.
Mcam connects the splines...
Ive had this enhanement request in for a while.

[Craig Madsen from CM3D]

As noted above - Improved Verification - in views other than top.

Use stock model in ALL toolpath types to minimize air cutting.

Ability to define holes by finished operation and have 'prior' ops done as well.

Cleaner FBM and FBD operations - without so many of the excessive 'extra' operations.

Advanced HSM operations with emphasis on the full depth / light stepover on the outside of parts that WORKS without doing them over and over to get good output.

Ability to copy ops from one open Mastercam session to ANOTHER open Mastercam session

^^^ ditto ^^^ for geometry.

[gcode]

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^^^ ditto ^^^ for geometry.            

We can already copy geometry frpm one session to another..
Do you mean copy and op and brings it's geometry in too ???

[Crazy^Mill/Turn]

Ability for system to know you only have solids on the screen and not have to go tell the system you have to go pick the solid to enable solids abilities.

[TERRYH]

I would expect them to fix the bugs in X6 and make it work properly before creating another with new functions. But then again that would make too much sense.

[Manuel0822]

Crazy^Millman, on 13 May 2012 - 03:30 PM, said:

Ability for system to know you only have solids on the screen and not have to go tell the system you have to go pick the solid to enable solids abilities.

^^^^^^
+1000

[Rickster™]

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We can already copy geometry frpm one session to another..
Do you mean copy and op and brings it's geometry in too ???

Gcode, can you explain how to do this?
I could really use this rather than opening a 2nd MC file and saving some geo, and
then importing that geo.

Cheers

[gcode]

In the donor session, select the geometry as you normally would.
Hit Edit/ Copy
In the recieving session , hit Edit/Paste..
a ribbon bar will pop up giving you choices regarding color, levels etc ..
You can change them or just hit accept.

[Brandon Renwick]

ill take stock models that support undefined tool types.
also stk model calculation times to be halved (these currently take too long imo)
tool holders and tools that stay together no matter how many times i edit things (this is really my no1 gripe!!)
old style surfacing paths that support tool holders

[Rickster™]

Thank James,
I've tried it and loved it! (I used Smartcam free form machining for 5 yrs)....
but MC would not be able to incorporate it in their type of op manager as the tool path lines
have to be the same as a drawn line, or be able to be converted to a line and a line to a toolpath
line.

Back on topic.

I expect tool renumbering to work in X7

still not working in X6 MU1

[newbeeee]

gcode, on 14 May 2012 - 08:09 AM, said:

In the donor session, select the geometry as you normally would.
Hit Edit/ Copy
In the recieving session , hit Edit/Paste..
a ribbon bar will pop up giving you choices regarding color, levels etc ..
You can change them or just hit accept.

G,
Thanks for this. I never knew mcam could do this. When was this added or embarrasingly has it been able to do this for a few years...
Every day's a school day.
Cheers

embarrassingly, it's been able to do this since the original X .
If I ran CNC, I'd write a routine that forced the user to read the What's New file before Install would run ....

[Rickster™]

Thanks Gcode, a big help!  

[Crazy^Mill/Turn]

Not have the error message that solid need to be reneged or are dirty do you wish to save the file when no solid show a problem.

[DavidSV]

I expect it to now be so easy a 5 year old can do it. Maybe by X11, an unborn fetus could do it.

[Brandon Renwick]

also better icons in the tool list filter (milling), would like better pictures of the tool they represent (i find that the chamfer tool looks exaclty like spot drill), and also putting the names of the tool type on the icon,  i find it silly to move the mouse everywhere to see what the icons name is, also make them arrangable so the user can group them how they want or delete them, some of the icons ill never use so id get rid of them so its less clutter

[gms1]

Rwhiting, on 11 May 2012 - 07:02 AM, said:

How about separating the trim/extend function. I have to constantly toggle between trim mode and extend mode when creating and modifying geometry. Just give me two buttons that do each function.

Ugh more icons??? No thanks we got enough separate, terrible icons with x6 and the splitting of every 3d hst toolpath. Really don't want more freaking icons