Upgraded

[junky programmer]

Hello,

Just got upgraded to 2019 Mastercam from X7....Should I be happy?

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

That depends on how often the bugs hit you.

[Mark VIII]

Some things will make you very unhappy. Other things will make you not as unhappy.

[gcode]

27 minutes ago, junky programmer said:

Hello,

Just got upgraded to 2019 Mastercam from X7....Should I be happy?

I would be very happy

[CJep]

Depends, do you see the glass 1/2 full or cracked?

[Guest]

The 2 other guys where i work swear X7 was the worst version they saw in sometime....I worked right through it with few issues...

It'll depend on you more than anything else but I am quite happy with 2019

[gcode]

The new interface will throw you for a loop for a week or so, but once you pick it up

you will never want to go back to X7 or X8 or X9

[Redfire427]

For me...…….the software works, but is far from an upgrade. If you are fast with X7, you will be dreadfully slow with 2019. There is so much needless complication. Things that were so easy to access quickly have been replaced with much less intuitive means. Individual results will vary.

Carmen

[gcode]

12 minutes ago, Redfire427 said:

For me...…….the software works, but is far from an upgrade. If you are fast with X7, you will be dreadfully slow with 2019. There is so much needless complication. Things that were so easy to access quickly have been replaced with much less intuitive means. Individual results will vary.

Carmen

That depends entirely on what you're doing with MC2019

I easily do parts in MC2019, that would barely run at all in X7.

There are quantum leaps in performance of stock model and many new features in the advance 5X toolpaths

2D and 3D opitrough paths have been upgraded at well

[Mark VIII]

5 minutes ago, gcode said:

2D and 3D opitrough paths have been upgraded at well

 

I would not call these "upgrades" over dynamic milling. What I used to do with one op now takes several.

[jlw™]

9 hours ago, junky programmer said:

Hello,

Just got upgraded to 2019 Mastercam from X7....Should I be happy?

I would be happy.  I'd find another job if I had to drop back to anything older than 2017.

[CJep]

I spoke with someone who felt Mcam V9 was the best version ever and in the same conversation complained that he couldn't open the SWorks files his customer was sending him.

[David Colin]

It will take you time and effort to learn and customize 2019 GUI...  finally you will get used to and you should be happy !

 

[jeff]

19 hours ago, gcode said:

The new interface will throw you for a loop for a week or so, but once you pick it up

you will never want to go back to X7 or X8 or X9

Gimme 2019 with X9's interface and I'll be happy! 

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

3 hours ago, CJep said:

I spoke with someone who felt Mcam V9 was the best version ever and in the same conversation complained that he couldn't open the SWorks files his customer was sending him.

I save the files from Solidworks as X_B and everything works great.

2 hours ago, David Colin said:

It will take you time and effort to learn and customize 2019 GUI...  finally you will get used to and you should be happy !

So it's broken out of the box, and every user has to fix it before it becomes usable.

I'd be happier if I had the old V9 interface where I could use single keystrokes to execute commands without preceding everything with <Alt>.  Both major UI revisions have been a step backwards in efficiency.

[Mark VIII]

51 minutes ago, Matthew Hajicek™ - Conventus said:

Both major UI revisions have been a step backwards in efficiency.

THIS^^^^^+++++++++. Let's talk about that Fin, GD, next-to-uselessly-customizable-ribbon-bar. AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I have resorted to putting just about all of the "features"  I need in the right click dialog just to try and get as far from it as possible.

[gcode]

4 minutes ago, Mark VIII said:

I have resorted to putting just about all of the "features"  I need in the right click dialog just to try and get as far from it as possible.

right click an icon/add to quick access is your friend

[Mark VIII]

24 minutes ago, gcode said:

right click an icon/add to quick access is your friend

No. it isn't. QA is as far from the work area as possible. It might as well be under my chair. Right click menu is right where I need it. So were all of the customizable icon bars before we were assaulted with the ribbon bar.

[CJep]

You can move the location of the QA below the ribbon, it's a check box in the customize QA utility or right click in the ribbon and set it to below.

 

 

[Thad]

34 minutes ago, Mark VIII said:

... before we were assaulted with the ribbon bar.

I can't think of a better way to describe it.  

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

There are over 900 functions in Mastercam.  Are we to put all of them on the QA bar or in a customized right click menu?  Far better to have an efficient way to access them out of the box.  Like, I dunno, maybe drop down menus.

 

[CJep]

I believe the argument has more to do with the Microsoft UI, most all current Windows programs are running a ribbon based interface

 

[John@WMM]

5 hours ago, CJep said:

I spoke with someone who felt Mcam V9 was the best version ever and in the same conversation complained that he couldn't open the SWorks files his customer was sending him.

Its been fun going around and registering that swdocumentmgr.dll 16 times... then 16 times after the mastercam2019-update2-patch... not impressed

[CJep]

Haven't had to register mine.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

12 minutes ago, CJep said:

I believe the argument has more to do with the Microsoft UI, most all current Windows programs are running a ribbon based interface

 

1. Not every program that runs in windows has to use the ribbon.  Games are a perfect example; they require fast and efficient input of large numbers of functions, and I don't know a single one that uses a ribbon.

2. Microsoft's own UI design guidelines describe the types of software that should and should not use the Ribbon.  Mastercam checks almost every box for the do not use category.

An example of what not to do: