Yes I know of a concert hall that bought a $500k piano for the Violin player to play. After 1 year it was never played once and the management group was upset and fired the violin player. On the exit interview they asked him why he never played the the Piano that was bought for him. He replied I spent 35 years playing the Violin. No one ever asked me if wanted lessons or if I even wanted to play the Piano they just bought and expected me to be able to play it. They said well your a musician said the person who never played an instrument in their life. He replied back what if someone bought you and INDY car and told you you must beat the best racers on the planet or loose your job? How long do you think it would take you to beat them with no training or help? Anyone can do what I do is my feeling. I am no one special, but I have something 99% of the other people don't have. I have 30+ year of experience in well over 1000 different shops having programmed well over 300 different machines. I wish I could sit down and play the Piano like someone who has played it for 30 years could, but I cannot. Maybe with years of practice and training I could play twinkle twinkle little star. If your owner is not smart enough to understand no one can get to where they need without the proper and correct training it might be time for you to find somewhere that understands training is the most fundamental aspect of the manufacturing process. That said I spent many hours when I was younger on my own time learning and growing my craft. The concert Pianist doesn't sit down not having spent countless hours practicing and honing their abilities. We as machinist and programmers should be doing the same. Honing and perfecting our abilities. The Piano or any instrument for that matter make such amazing sounds when played by the right person, but make terrible sounds when played by the wrong person or a novice. We all need to think of our work as our own Masterpieces of our abilities, talents and God given abilities. Excellent putting something up to get better keep that attitude and you will surpass me in what you can program and do.

Well you can program it to do Simultaneous 4 Axis, but your part will need to be at that place when programmed from the center of rotation. Trying to program to the center of rotation and do what your after on a 4 Axis machine is asking a lot. The control might have an option to do it, but I have never seen anyone even attempt to do what your asking so I would interested in seeing how you come with it. Please keep us posted when you come up with.

Absolutely. But what fun is that?

Can you just use <Solid Trim> by plane and use <split solid> Select a plane and poof?

I tried opening your file and I got an error. I have copied solids to different levels and then trimmed each copy to the same plane. You can create a rectangle at the place you want to split and do a Extrude cut if you want to try that method.

Standard, not likely To the best of my knowledge and experience without tooltip compensation, it's got to be all on centerline and correctly positioned for the simultaneous to be correct

I'm not sure which toolpaths support it, but some now use your video card's CPU's in addition to the normal computer CPU to crunch toolpaths, That assumes your video card and drivers support OpenCL (version 1.2 or better)

I waiting to hear back from the installer experts as to what they think may be the issue for you. I would be worth trying to download a new copy of the SDK to install. In the CHM I searched for TP_OPCODE Then down in the list found topics selected -> ToolpathOperationCode_CHh File Reference Scroll down to the Enumerations and you'll find the enum TP_OPCODE information.

submitted to the reseller. thanks

Some reference info- Air region extent is 4x tool diameter. I imagine overlapping region trimming is tough because we have knowledge of only the input chains, and then each region would have to be cross checked against every other region and some intelligence applied to the result. I'm sure this will see many improvements in the future- the ability to add multiple air regions was just introduced, and the functionality will continue to evolve release to release. For now, giving the path a little more knowledge of surrounding geometry is enough to get a good path.

Peter, I can't back before 2018 to see what your exactly referring to, but think I have come up with what we can do in 2020 to get as close a possible to that. Here is the QAT for me it is the point from the ribbon and then the drop down for point.

I don’t use any ribbons. I get the Toolpath ribbon when toolpathing, but everything that is a drop down on the different ribbons is now drop downs on the QAT. I have read many different development articles over the years and all make the assertion toolbars for a software like Mastercam is the best choice. Ribbons are not and I really appreciate efforts put toward making the software more efficient. Its just far less clicks day in and day out with toolbars. Less movement to do the same thing is Kaizen basics. Why go around your knee to get to your elbow? Things are improving version to version in areas that make our lives as programmers better, but with ribbons gone I don’t miss them.

Im trying to figure out how to add G64 at the end of the tool after my G05 P0 turning off high speed to turn my High Speed Smoothing off. I see it in my post but its not turning the G64 on not sure why its not working I have a postability post that says the same thing and it works so im not sure just trying to add it to my other post for a different machine

I wonder how often y'all are running Haas spindles at 100% of their capable RPM? Or if you're familiar with the phrase "just because you can, doesn't mean you should." I see youngsters revving up their spindles like hot rods, 10k all day everyday on a 10k spindle. If you want to run 10k all day everyday, perhaps look into a 12k spindle. Don't beat the thing an inch from it's life, you might be surprised from the results. If you can't afford a higher RPM spindle adjust your adjust your feed rate accordingly. .. Been using Haas since the 90's and have only seen one spindle failure along the way. -j