Mastercam Feature Suggestions

[Rotary Ninja]

Also,

Are you using veiwsheets? Saves me a ton of time.

 

Mike

 

Holy ### that is SWEET!

 

 

 

 

uhhh... I am now!

[GoetzInd]

Haha now you're cookin!

[Richard Thomas - Mastercam UK]

And check boxes here to select Result and Group at the same time

 

good idea, but be aware there are Group and Result Quick Mask buttons too - they should be on the right side of the screen

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

How about voice commands so I can just tell Mastercam what to do.

 

That would all be fine and dandy until someone comes into the room talking and screws up your file.

 

Just learn the keystrokes, it's quite quick.

[Rotary Ninja]

Wait... you have a room? I was going to say Mastercam wouldn't hear me over my machine. But you're in a ROOM!?

[gcode]

Wait... you have a room? I was going to say Mastercam wouldn't hear me over my machine. But you're in a private office ROOM!?

:harhar:

[Rotary Ninja]

Yeah, you suck G

 

good idea, but be aware there are Group and Result Quick Mask buttons too - they should be on the right side of the screen

 

I knew someone would mention this. I have seen it but I never use it. I understand the concept. But it's usually an afterthought when I am too far into a program to implement it.

[RayD]

tool comp control in 3d HST.. I want wear!!!!!!!

[Jayson Kramer]

Ray this is not possible for all controls other wise that would be nice.

[Rotary Ninja]

It would be really nice if when you mirrored a part all the toolpaths and views actually mirrored with it. As it is all the contours reverse, the cutting angles of surfacing toolpaths need to be rotated, and lead-ins and lead-outs need to be switched if you are using different values for each. This seems to be a little too much work to just mirror a part. Unless there is a way to do this I don't know about? If so please fill me in! I know about X-Form Mirror, but that doesn't ever work for these kind of parts

[Rotary Ninja]

In the Autosave/Backup window there should be a check box to purge backups older than "X" number of days. And another check box to backup a file immediately after it is opened.

[Santa Fe]

I would like a toolpath to deburr all the 3d edges in a consistent maner.

 

Currently I have to do a 2d contour to drive a Surface Project toolpath, so two toolpaths to create one good deburr operation.

[Eric@HorsepowerInc.]

Please add in a Lead in Feed overide to the Thread Mill T-path. It would be a wonderful thing! IMO

[GoetzInd]

Don't know if this has already been mentioned, Feed and Speed overides for semi-finishing in lathe roughing paths!!!!

 

Mike

[left coast lefty]

When using "Edit Common Parameters", add the ability to change the Wall and Floor "stock to leave" values.

 

 

 

 

+10000

 

Also Edit common parameters could use lead in/out, and Cut parameters in drill ops to name a couple.

[Roger Peterson]

toolpath transform mirror should force you to set the "source" to "geometry", but there is an issue and it allows you leave the "source" set to "NCI" which will not give you what your looking for. So set the "source" to geometry and you also have some settings on mirror page for "cutting direction" which should allow you to get the results your looking for, usually have this set to maintain start entity.

 

If you are doing a lot of deburring of edges with a ball endmill use the "curve 5 axis" toolpath. This works very well and is easy to program, basically it's a contour toolpath that can compensate to surfaces. If you don't have access to it have your dealer show it to you.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

tool comp control in 3d HST.. I want wear!!!!!!!

Ray this is not possible for all controls other wise that would be nice.

 

Even just comp in the X/Y plane would be useful for me, for all surface finish paths. If I need to drop the path in Z I can do that with the tool length offset.

[Rotary Ninja]

Add a conventional pass setting for the finish pass of the Circlemill toolpath.

[Brando]

adding a thread lead field to the tap define tool page , and when you use a tapping drill cycle add same field to the tip compensation, i think it would definetly make it easier to account for the chamfer on a tap

[GoetzInd]

adding a thread lead field to the tap define tool page , and when you use a tapping drill cycle add same field to the tip compensation, i think it would definetly make it easier to account for the chamfer on a tap

 

+1

[Müřlıń®]

I have been wanting a color selection feature built into ops forever.

 

Color for chaines, drive surfs, and check surfs. So that when you imported geometry into an existing ops tree with color selected as default, you would not have to manually pick any geometry.

 

Still would be awesume.....

[PeterM]

I would love it if Mastercam would ask me if I wanted to use my current ea manager settings when I open a legacy Mastercam file.

[Smrk]

please add "angle" column in tool definition, to define angle between diameter and shank diameter. Most of tools are not two cylinders on each other, but have cone between work diameter and shank.

[Rotary Ninja]

please add "angle" column in tool definition, to define angle between diameter and shank diameter. Most of tools are not two cylinders on each other, but have cone between work diameter and shank.

 

+1. I have wondered why this wasn't an option as well. We use a lot of small tools and to have to draw every one is a pain.

[Redfire427]

As a workaround, you can do that using holders. Just define your tool as a .250" end mill ( or whatever ) and then add the taper as the first element of your holder. I've been using this technique for years.

 

Carmen