What you expect from X7 ?

[MWR15]

Aaron, I thought it was logical to wait over a year before we tried updating to X6 in order to avoid any software bug's. We use a Catia translator that will only let you use it in one version of Mastercam,. Which means when we have issue's we can't just open up an earlier version of Mastercam and proceed. Yes, I know we can have the Catia solid converted to Step or Iges file's but then that requires us to send it back to the design department. I don't know who is callling our local reseller and telling them I'm on here bashing them but they are wrong. My post are being directed to Cnc Software. The average multi car cup team has an average of 50-100 cars in rotation through out the year not counting the newer designed chassis and parts being put into rotation so when we have downtime in the Machine Shop it limit's our ability to keep up with the larger Sprint Cup teams. I've used Mastercam off and on since the late 90's and have alway's had good result's but as of late it's been a dissapointment to be told " yeah we know we have a problem just wait till X7 is releaed" or be a beta tester. We don't have time to be guinea pig's.

[Tyler Robertson]

I contacted your re-seller, not to say you were bashing them but to let them know you had some issues that might not have been handled.

[MWR15]

I contacted your re-seller, not to say you were bashing them but to let them know you had some issues that might not have been handled.

 

Tyler, They know very well about the issue. As stated from the CNC Software guy in his e-mail back on Jan. 4th that the issue doesn't seem to exist in X7. As we all know X7 wasn't being released in Jan. We've always choosen to stay a year behind any new releases so most of the bug's can hopefully be resolved.

I have found the problem to this file. In X6, the Stock to leave for walls and floors is set to .025. Somehow X6 does not like that value or there is a bug with setting a stock to leave. I set the value to zero and it finally generated the toolpath. There may be a value that it will take but they will have to play around with the setting or not use stock to leave at all. Like I mentioned, in X7 there is no problem with stock to leave and has been fixed.

[gcode]

X7 was released today

http://www.mastercam.com/Support/Downloads/MastercamX7/Default.aspx#X7

[Aaron Eberhard]

MWR15 - I'm glad to hear your problem has been addressed for the latest release.

[MWR15]

Only time will tell.