What you expect from X7 ?

[crazy^millman]

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]

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

[Thee Rickster ™]

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.

[Brando]

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

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I expect to see graphical toolpath editing too.

[Thee 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™]

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 ....

[Thee Rickster ™]

Thanks Gcode, a big help!

[crazy^millman]

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.

[Brando]

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]

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

[Guest SAIPEM]

Hopefully the project management of X7 is better than X6 was.

 

I'd like to see an honest press release of the functionality to be included in X7.

Obviously all that will be in it has already been decided upon.

How about letting us all know what we have to look forward to?

[Rstewart]

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.

 

Awesome ^^^^^ Thank you!!

[CEMENTHEAD]

+100

I think my biggest item would be to fix toolholders.

 

A bug "fix list" should be reinstated or posted to sim holders only.

 

also a Bugs created by X7 list ^^

 

Better setupsheets/documentation options. (community designed?)

[Thee Rickster ™]

I hope they fix the holder and holder dia. defaulting to zero when copying

paths from Mach/tool group to Mach/tool group, still broke in X6 MU1

[K2csq7]

I'd like to see the things in the MD &/or CD get greyed out if they don't do anything..... I know a lot of it is post specific, but when the post is loaded it seems mcam should know what stuff actually functions and what does nothing....

[Rwhiting]

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

 

I can either click a new separate icon and keep moving forward or stop, find the undo icon, figure out how far back I have to go because I was extending lines instead of trimming them. Its just one more chance to make a mistake because I extended a line or arc instead of trimming it and did not catch it.

[Newbeeee™]

Reading the above just remined me ref set up sheets.

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ALLOW ACTIVE REPORTS TO SAVE IN MSWORD FORMAT.

 

If I had a roof top, I'd be typing from there as well

[Thee Rickster ™]

Please stop solids from crashing when transforming!

[Guest]

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

@ John

[mikeqes]

As I use Mastercam for Wire, I really dont expect anything....in fact, if X7 went back to X4

it would actually be a improvement because of the bugs in X6.