Mastercam X7 MU1 is released

[gcode]

Updated to MU1 yesterday, and yesterday had 2 programs that fail to retract and rapid straight through cavity wall/upstanding core.

 

Files attached. Not too happy...

 

are you saying the posted gcode failed to retract, or, it's failing to retract in backplot/verify?

[CALLIESPRO]

Why is verify so slow? I like X7 until I have to verify, and I want to pull my hair out with how slow it is and then it is even slower when you want to save it!!

 

Is there anything I can do to make it faster?

[CamMan1]

I loaded up X7 MU1 today.

I am very pleased that some of my issues were addressed.

Now that the tolerances can be saved i changed them to what I had in X6 and did a little Pepsi-challenge with the same part in x6 and x7.

I dont know if this is a tolerance issue that I set, but I have played around with the different values and it doesnt seem to help.

The x7 verified image shows +/- stock in different areas where the x6 showed that it was perfect everywhere.

 

Also, this verifier is painfully slow. I ran x6 against x7 and x7 was easily three to four times slower than x6.

 

You will have to zoom into those areas and compare to get an accurate comparison or you can bump your precision factor to 5 or 6 with the precision slider all the way up and try that. It will be slow but will give you a more accurate full part compare.

[gms1]

Is anyone else have issues drag and dropping tools in the tool manager with MU1? I can't create an assembly at all by dragging a holder from one library into another library like I use to do.

[Daniel Winchester Enviropak Co]

Updated to MU1 yesterday, and yesterday had 2 programs that fail to retract and rapid straight through cavity wall/upstanding core.

 

Files attached. Not too happy...

I had the same issue yesterday, Mastercam came back with turning off smoothing in your total tolerance option. and they are working on fixing the bug

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

For the surface gouging issue please see this thread: http://www.emastercam.com/board/index.php?showtopic=75659

[Bucky Cornstarch]

Starting to remember why I don't install the "latest and greatest" MC updates when they come out. Installed X7 last week but the Verify crashes made me so angry that I went back to the earlier version. Was looking forward to the MU1 update but now I'm not so sure.

 

I use MC to make parts that make my company $$$. I don't have time to d!ck around with new versions of software and try and find workarounds for things that worked fine on the earlier versions.

 

/rant. I miss V9

[Gutty]

are you saying the posted gcode failed to retract, or, it's failing to retract in backplot/verify?

 

Bit of both...

 

Ran the red backplot in an afternoon rush to get out the door, next morning, broken cutter and a job that needs welding.

 

The green backplot is different, it only fails to retract once. I also ran it the same afternoon but seems it did retract during machining.

[gcode]

Bit of both...

 

Ran the red backplot in an afternoon rush to get out the door, next morning, broken cutter and a job that needs welding.

 

The green backplot is different, it only fails to retract once. I also ran it but it the same afternoon but seems it did retract during machining.

 

Have you seen this

http://www.emastercam.com/board/index.php?showtopic=75659#entry892286

[Gutty]

Have you seen this

http://www.emasterca...659#entry892286

 

Yeah have seen it now.

 

Both the above files have sections where the roughing/semi finishing programs has taken a negative amount of stock off too.. Think i'll just stick with SP2 for now.

[Eric Allen]

I have another problem that I am hoping someone can confirm isn't isolated to my computer. When I drag geometry from one operation to another I no longer get a prompt to either add or replace. Mastercam now defaults to add. I only used replace before so this is very annoying and dangerous. I missed it the first time and could not figure out why I had so many duplicate toolpaths.

By the way my VAR just gave me Jim's contact info and has asked me to forward my other problems to him.

Thanks!

[Redfire427]

The more things change ................. the more they stay the same.

 

Carmen

[gcode]

I have another problem that I am hoping someone can confirm isn't isolated to my computer. When I drag geometry from one operation to another I no longer get a prompt to either add or replace. Mastercam now defaults to add. I only used replace before so this is very annoying and dangerous. I missed it the first time and could not figure out why I had so many duplicate toolpaths.

By the way my VAR just gave me Jim's contact info and has asked me to forward my other problems to him.

Thanks!

 

this has been changed to be Windows compliant,

hold down the right click to drag and drop geometry between operations

 

I looked for this in What's New file and couldn't find it

[FROZEN]

Has anyone tried dragging geo from on tool path to another? It just adds it, doesn't give a choose to overwrite it.

[peon]

FROZEN, Gcode has the solution just above your post. I discovered the same problem. Not a glitch or bug, just a different selection process.

[FROZEN]

So no more replace, just add?????

[peon]

Right click on "Geometry" and let go. Your previous options of "Add - Replace - Replace All Selected - Cancel" are all there. Only difference is RIGHT clicking.

[FROZEN]

Ahhhhhhh!!! Thanks

[peon]

I knew you would get it Frozen. It was your other right! Hahaha

[Ronhisel]

I had an issue right away with the updated verify. It was showing stock that wasn't there and I had to switch to 5 axis mode to get it to verify properly even thought it wasn't a 5 axis part and didn't have undercuts. The material also showed up in compare.

[Powder Dog]

Thanks Serenity. This has been bugging me for months. I finally looked it up. Its all in the right click