Mastercam Feature Suggestions

[Rotary Ninja]

Yup! Thanks.

[Rotary Ninja]

In the Stock Model toolpath under Initial Stock Shape instead of saying "Model" this really should say "Solid"

[Manuel0822]

In the Stock Model toolpath under Initial Stock Shape instead of saying "Model" this really should say "Solid"

 

Well the only objection to that is that Stock Model allows to work with surfaces not necessarily only solids for it's initial stock.

 

I have only level one and I use it this way to verify my milling work having defined my initial stock as the surfaces saved from "stock preview" on my last lathe op. Of course this works as I try to keep only a single MC file per part number as most of what we do is really simple parts.

 

HTH.

[Mark H]

Please add corner rounding to the "high speed" scallop toolpaths. Since "old style" scallop has "sharp corner smoothing" it creates a superior toolpath even though the "high speed" has better transitions and tool holder checking.

[Elmer Fudd]

Get rid of the solids add on and have solids be part of mastercam since everything is done with solids now.

[Rotary Ninja]

How about a translucent setting for each individual level. It would be nice to be able to see through a stock solid or other component for reference, but have full shading active on an internal feature.

[GoetzInd]

How about a translucent setting for each individual level. It would be nice to be able to see through a stock solid or other component for reference, but have full shading active on an internal feature.

 

That would be awesome.

 

Mike

[Tyler Robertson]

Get rid of the solids add on and have solids be part of mastercam since everything is done with solids now.

 

+1000, at the very least let users move/scale etc. a solid

[Brewster]

It would be nice if you could rename an NC file and change the program # under the same menu.

[Rotary Ninja]

It would be nicer if your program numbers would sequence right along with your toolpath group names. For example, my toolpath groups are automatically named OP-1, OP-2, OP-3 etc. It would be nice if the program number could automatically use the appended value of the toolpath group and sequence the same.

[Brewster]

It would be nicer if your program numbers would sequence right along with your toolpath group names. For example, my toolpath groups are automatically named OP-1, OP-2, OP-3 etc. It would be nice if the program number could automatically use the appended value of the toolpath group and sequence the same.

even better

[brandon b]

+1 Dan.

 

How about a simple silhouette toolpath to contour the outer boundary of a part without having to create a wireframe to do so?

I use the create boundary c-hook...

for 3d contours offset xy in -.001 then project to the surface

[Tyler Robertson]

It would be nicer if your program numbers would sequence right along with your toolpath group names. For example, my toolpath groups are automatically named OP-1, OP-2, OP-3 etc. It would be nice if the program number could automatically use the appended value of the toolpath group and sequence the same.

 

every time you do something automatically like that, someone will it to NOT do that. Although if there was a field that was populated with OP-1, OP-2 etc. you could just turn on the option

 

otherwise you can do that in the post

[Sticky]

Still waiting for a tombstone module or add on... Or at least some better transform options.

[mike93]

diamater on dynamic analiz would be nice to have,

[Newbeeee™]

^^^+ 100000000000

[Newbeeee™]

I think it's been suggested before...Colourise OPs manager text.

So right click in the Operation Manager, select display options, then next to the headings tick box, could we have a 'colourise button' where we can select an individual colour for the adjacent text so they stand out easier when searching/checking for them?

 

Or perhaps the best way of doing this would be setting individually at the time of creation in the View Manager. This could be an adjacent colum to the Woff# so we individually colourise the numbers?

G54 = Blue

G55 = Orange

G56 = Yellow etc

 

Also individual WCS number colourisation

Top = Red

Front = Green

A45 = Yellow

 

Not to make the OP's manage too fisher price, but sometimes it can look a little wood for the trees, as everything is the same colour.