X6 Pro's

[Thee Rickster ™]

I opened an existing X5 file in X6 and I do not have the (red) Post NONE

in the ops/files(machine- toolpath copy ) area and have to reselect the Machine

Def in all the mach groups(12 in this case) they are all updated for me!

 

That is a major plus!

 

plus it updates the nci, and nc paths to the proper folder

upon opening, that wouldn't stick in the condrol def!

 

another major plus, fo me.

[gcode]

X6 x64 is more robust than X5x32.

Crunch times are faster, Verify is faster and doesn't run out of gas as quick

[Goldorak]

Opti-rest

[peon]

- Much faster regen speed

- Much faster verify speed

- Stock model works great with smaller simple parts, works excellent with rest roughing paths and loads into verify quicker than .stl

- .stl saved from verify after referencing a stock model yields a much smaller .stl file

- Bullnose support in the optirough and dynamic roughing paths is a huge improvement from X5.

- Capability of right clicking all Surface High Speed toolpaths in the operations manager

- I noticed the arc filter works much better. I'm getting more arcs in 3d paths than I did in X5. I did change an arc setting in the MCAMX Control Panel Applet that may have done the trick, but regardless, I noticed the improvement in X6.

[peon]

Corner rounding in 2d contour prevents a cutter from barking in an internal sharp corner without having to modify corner geometry.

[BrandonH]

Internal corner rounding on a contour toolpath. That's about the ONLY thing I missed from catia's prismatic workbench.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Peon, what is different on this?

I can right click in x5???

 

- Capability of right clicking all Surface High Speed toolpaths in the operations manager

[Thee Rickster ™]

Peon, can you also can you describe the change in the arc setting Applet?

[peon]

It is the "HMM kernel arc creation" I really have no idea what this setting actually does. I just know that the 3d toolpaths have more arcs in X6. The verify is much quicker with these arcs and the pokey machines seem to be benefiting.

 

[peon]

Rick, the HST's are individually listed now when you right click in the operation manager. Previously, you had to click "Surface high speed toolpath..." and then pick your actual toolpath.

[peon]

It is the "HMM kernel arc creation" I really have no idea what this setting actually does. I just know that the 3d toolpaths have more arcs in X6. The verify is much quicker with these arcs and the pokey machines seem to be benefiting.

 

 

My min and max arc radius are set to .01/99. in the arc filter settings for my machines.

[K2csq7]

It opens much faster than X5 did. Probably about 1/2 the amount time.

[#Rekd™]

The biggest one for me is that you are going to find all the problems and let me know!!!!

 

J/K I have loaded it but not updated the files yet.

 

Not in this thread

[BenK]

Rick, the HST's are individually listed now when you right click in the operation manager. Previously, you had to click "Surface high speed toolpath..." and then pick your actual toolpath.

 

 

I personally liked it all in one like it was.

 

 

 

The opti-rest toolpath is a great feature.

[Jroc85]

I opened an existing X5 file in X6 and I do not have the (red) Post NONE

in the ops/files(machine- toolpath copy ) area and have to reselect the Machine

Def in all the mach groups(12 in this case) they are all updated for me!

 

That is a major plus!

 

plus it updates the nci, and nc paths to the proper folder

upon opening, that wouldn't stick in the condrol def!

 

another major plus, fo me.

There is hope.

[peon]

Rick, in the operations manager on that .mcx5 file within X6, go to files, edit, control definition, and look in the post processor section. Make sure the post selected doesn't have a red X next to it.

[Thee Rickster ™]

I had inhouse , supervise my install remote desktop, and we went over everything.

 

Thanks

[Glenn Bouman]

I like the HST's individually listed as now I can set defaults for each toolpath type.

[BenK]

I like the HST's individually listed as now I can set defaults for each toolpath type.

 

You could before. Setting your defaults all you had to do is go through each operation type under the one HST toolpath.

[Jroc85]

[mayday]

Ii am disqualified from posting in this thread

[Thee Rickster ™]

go through each operation type under the one HST toolpath

 

That did not work individually at all, in X5 and under.

 

But I would like to check it out as Glen has stated

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Plusses...

FAST!

x64 bit support

 

Those two things alone help me a lot.

 

I can't think of anything that's not mentioned above. Not doing a much CAD in MC anymore so I don't venture there much.