Harsh, but true

wet cardboard is the deluxe upgrade

Yes, but the duct tape, bailing wire and chewing gum holding those UMC-750's together is highly susceptible to thermal expansion and compression.

I saved the three curves out as an IGES file and imported them into SpaceClaim. The SpaceClaim command Blend produced a surface that looked exactly like what we ae looking for. Then I IGES'd the results back into Mastercam and the beautiful curved surface came into Mastercam looking like a flat surface. However, if I launch the command Analyze Dynamic and inspect the "flat" surface, the arrow moves in a curved pattern. I believe this is a Mastercam graphics issue. I think the surface is actually correct but the graphics tolerance setting I'm using prevent it from being correctly displayed. If I had more time, I'd trying applying a scallop toolpath to the surface and see what the posted code looked like.

Send it to [email protected] there is a reason for that. You can find that here You can browse most of it without an account. If you want to access the forum, you'll need to create an account from a PC with access to a legitimate Mastercam license. and at this point I am bringing this thread to it's well deserved end.

No experience with them Thier website is current and says "Designed, Engineered and Assembled in the USA" I suspect they are manufactured in China and shipped to the US for final assembly ... and a Made in the USA sticker. They list a surprising variety of machines on their website. If you Google Map their address 70 Jon Barrett Road | Patterson, New York | 12563 and check the satellite view you'll see they share a building with a woodworking shop and there are about a half dozen cars in the parking lot. Personally, I'd steer clear.

We had a Fanuc controlled VTL that was very touchy about arcs A Fanuc service tech came out and adjusted some parameters that controled the tolerance of arc endpoints and radiuses. That solved the problem

I don't know what version they started doing this, but with MC2024 the industrial and educational version are the same download. Whether it runs as an industrial seat or educational is controlled by the license you are using... so if you are seeing a bug in educational, it should be there in the industrial version.

Azoth May I respectfully suggest that when you get to work tomorrow, you upload an industrial copy of this toolpath. Until you have done that, there is no way to know if this is a bug. If it's a bug it can be submitted to QC.

My brain was thinking Verisurf, but my fingers typed Vericut

The ModuleWorks 5X toolpaths are licensed from ModuleWorks in Germany. Everything else is created and maintained by CNC Software. That includes all the old legacy 5x toolpaths, 2 and 3d contouring, pocketing, high speed surfacing, drilling, 2 and 3D dynamic roughing and finishing and all lathe toolpaths. To Mastercam's credit, the toolpath filters are much better than they used to be. It used to be a little scary using the filter because you never knew when a filtered toolpath was going to get a glitch and blast through a wall or an arc was going to wipe out a part with a 358° move instead of the desired 2° arc. Filtering used be scary, I worked with people who would not use filtering under any circumstances... even if they had to break a file into multiple programs to get it in the machine. Filtering is much more reliable and safer than it used to be. It has been years since a filtered toolpath bit me.

This thread made me think of this very useful old Camistructor video. I always forget these toolpaths are available.

Bitdefender Endpoint Security updates their threat definitions several times a day. I was able to install with no issues at home on a machine the uses the personal version of Bitdefender. I did not hear back from QC, but I tried the install again at work this morning and it ran fine. I guess BD got things straightened out.

True dat.. If it doesn't work, they shouldn't be selling it,,,, and they sure as hell shouldn't be calling it "turnkey"

Yes, Vericut Free Tools is an addon for Mastercam.