Dimension scaling

[Jerod Robbins]

Hello,

 

I am fairly new to Mastercam and am trying to figure out how to stop it from rounding up my dimensions.  I will draw up my part and try and dimension it and for example 1.550 will round up to 1.600.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

[3rdstring]

Using the Home / Learning edition of MC? I believe that is just the way it works. 

[BFleeger]

I just played around with this a little.  I have MCX9 full version on my desktop, and HLE on a laptop I take home to study.

 

On the HLE version, it seems to give you only 2 significant digits of value, regardless of what is set for the number of decimal places (though it pads the correct number of decimal places that you have set).

On the full version, it works correctly by looking at the number of decimal places you indicate in the settings. But, when you are setting the dimensions, and click on the "Number" button in the ribbon bar - it asks for the number of significant digits - but uses that as the number of decimal places.

 

It seems what you are seeing may be a limitation on the HLE version (a very bad one if you ask me). 

But there is also another underlying issue with MasterCAM's confusion of the use(or nomenclature) of decimal places and significant digits.

 

-Brian

[Jerod Robbins]

Yes I am using the Home / Learning edition for the next month or so til we update our computers at work.  The computer I have in my office is ancient.  Thank you guys for your responses.  For now I will just have to edit my dimensions to read accurate.

 

Jerod

[MARK a]

Did you check your dimension settings? It could be set to 2 decimal places which would round off all dimensions. Click on your dimension, then click create - dimensions - multi-edit.  see if is set to 2 decimal places.