X9: Mastercam for Solidworks

[Brian B 74]

I received a newsletter from my reseller last week saying that with the new X9 release all Level 3 licenses will now include a Mastercam for Solidworks license.  

 

I have read that X+ is not compatible with MC4SW.  What are people using for setup sheets?  Active Reports?  .SET files?

[m98custom1212]

Man that is awesome. FINALLY! 

[Brian B 74]

This is what I received from our reseller:

 

• Solids Add-On package will also no longer be sold separately, this will be automatically included with Design, Lathe, Wire, Mill and Router and Entry products at no additional charge. For those of you without Solids currently this allows you to create solids right in Mastercam and modify Solid models that you get from other CAD systems. This also includes the translating (Xform command in Mastercam) to orient the models in the system as you desire.
• Mill products will now be sold only as "Mill" and "Mill 3D" Replacing the Mill 1,2,3 Levels. This means that all previous Mill 1 customers will be getting Mill Level 2 functionality, which includes limited 3D Surface machining with no upgrade fees required. If you'd like more information on what 3D capability you will now have, please contact us. Mill 3D has received many new toolpaths and improvements over the past few releases. Please contact us as well for info on how these new toolpaths can improve your current process.
• Mastercam for Solidworks is now available to all Mill and Lathe Customers. If you have seats of Solidworks, this allows you to run the CAM portion of Mastercam right inside of Solidworks. MC4SW Requires Solidworks 2013 or newer 64bit license.

All Entry level customers will now be getting the 3D Verify Option instead of just backplot.

 

 

I'm just curious what people are using for tool and operation setup sheets.

[m98custom1212]

I'm so excited just downloaded the X9 beta. 

[M. Anderson]

Link...

 

http://whatsnew.mastercam.com/X9/system_product.html

 

if it works?

[gcode]

Link...

 

http://whatsnew.mastercam.com/X9/system_product.html

 

if it works?

why wouldn't it work??

[M. Anderson]

G,

 

I was talking about the link I posted... they changed it from the last time I bookmarked it???

 

Had to go find it again...

[jlw™]

Any one know when x9 will be released?

[gcode]

Any one know when x9 will be released?

Hard to say.. if I had to guess I'd say late May , early June

If you don't want to wait, the current beta is rock solid.. give it a try

though I think we'll se a PC (production canidate)  pretty soon

[jlw™]

I've been using the beta for some playing. I'm not comfortable enough to post jobs from it yet.

 

I'd like to see the high feed tools put back in.

[JMahon]

Ive posted from it a couple times so far. Only issue ive noticed is with the multiaxis linking.  Thats a new feature, Id say thats to be expected in a beta version.

[jlw™]

That's what I'm most interested in, what issues have you had? I'm not too keen on the condensed path names but it is all there.

[JMahon]

When drilling and using multiaxis link together.  Tries to do odd depths and weird canned cycle behavior.

[jlw™]

Linking between milling ops is good?

[m98custom1212]

Forgive me here but is multiaxis link together?

[JMahon]

So far its been good for me on everything ive done except drilling.

Only used it a couple times though.

[jlw™]

I'm hoping it will work good for chamfering or on other things that run really quick between indexes.