I use HSMAdvisor and the Helical Machining Advisor. Both give good numbers.

My results from this benchmark 3.0 using Mastercam 2020 HLE on a Ryzen 7 3700x 3.6GHZ (4.4 ghz turbo) with a Nvidia 2060 Super gfx card, 16gb ram 3 Minutes and 58 Seconds

Nope, not on this mess but thanks

For the cost of a decent laptop you can have two desktops that work better, one for at work and one for at home. Choose your processor based on this benchmark: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html Get a decent Quadro if you can afford it, but in my experience unless you're working on huge models Mastercam works fine on GeForce gaming cards. A $300 GeForce card will be way better than a $300 Quadro if you're budget constrained.

I'm just here fer the free coffee n bagels

You probably use as Work coordinate system the option Home position (mi1 = 1) Try changing the post to the following: if home_type < two, #Toolchange G50/home/reference position [ sav_xh = vequ(copy_x) sav_absinc = absinc$ absinc$ = zero pmap_home #Get home position, xabs ps_inc_calc #Set start position, not incremental #Toolchange home position if home_type = one, pbld, n$, *sgcode, pfxout, pfyout, pfzout, e$ else, [ #Toolchange g50 position pbld, n$, *sg28ref, "U0.", [if y_axis_mch, "V0."], "W0.", e$ toolno = t$ * 100 + zero if home_type = m_one, pbld, n$, *sgcode, *toolno, e$ else, pbld, n$, *sg50, pfxout, pfyout, pfzout, e$ ] pe_inc_calc #Update previous absinc$ = sav_absinc copy_x = vequ(sav_xh) ] toolno = t$ * 100 + tloffno$ pbld, n$, *sgcode, *toolno, "M6", e$ pbld, n$, pfsgplane, e$

Can't yet...next update will have the 2020 translator

Sorry, but Chris Rizzo passed away and others have tried to keep it going. It is not that easy to do so. There is HSM Advisory and other tools out there. Got a specific material? Tool? Machine Taper? Holder? I and think other can give you some suggestions once we know those parameters.

i added my results on the benchmark thread for using the Ryzen processor for those that were curious, not too bad results for a 1300$ pc imo link:

Unless you need the portability that a laptop offers i suggest steer clear of Laptops, its hard to find many budget friendly laptops that can support a full sized graphics card. so you end up paying almost twice as much on the build. If your computers just gonna sit at work all the time i think its best to go desktop, plus they typically have better cooling options and much better for future upgrades. for those that work from home though or need portability then obviously there is no point to go with a desktop because no one wants to have to haul something like that around but i have seen at least a handful of times where a company purchases a laptop for an application that a desktop could have been in and they could have got about 2x the performance for a desktop of the same price point. I have been with my company for years, and for years i used a laptop, but this year i got my first desktop since they were upgrading systems and i Love this thing, i have a nice Gaming keyboard (with really nice switches - you cant find keyboards like this on laptops) and this is the best pc i have ever worked with (and this pc probably was like i said half the cost of my dell workstation laptop that i used the years prior). - well you can plug any keyboard into a laptop but i mean not the built in keyboards, those are normally those little thin keys that are squashed together to take up less space Much of this is probably obvious, but wanted to mention it anyways because after I have been using laptops for years and now using this Desktop i am very impressed with how well this desktop works. The only problem with this desktop is it dont fit in my computer bag like my laptop did lol but thats ok because they still let me use the old laptop whenever i want to work from out of the office.

It looks like your Post was built by Postability. They use different MI Values. Look at MI5$. Start Solution. The default is '0', which is Negative output. Try changing the limits back, and setting MI5 to '1'. (Be sure to force a regeneration when modifying MI or MR Values!)

Not really it is a matter of customer support and verses Canada where In-House put a network of offices across Canada to support it in the USA we have different laws and other things that change from state to state. Take California for instance the state has 1/9 the population of the Country. The Southern California Mastercam dealer alone normally did more business than most of the International dealers that have complete countries. When Mastercam started they were not a AutoDesk just now getting into the CAM market. They had to create network to make that happen. Making all of them employee's from a business standpoint was not practical at that time. Many of the original dealers where doing other things until the dealership allowed enough money to earn a living just selling and supporting Mastercam. Back then there was no maintenance. You stayed in business by only getting new sales for the most part or people willing to pay the upgrade fees. Mastercam got started over 30 years ago and has done a good job getting to where they are.

Straight out of Mastercam G0G17G40G80G90G94G98 G0G28G91Z0. (1.0014 GUN DRILL TOOL - 3 DIA. OFF. - 51999 LEN. - 51999 DIA. - 1.0014) (POSITION 1- GUN DRILL THRU BORE Z-7.911) T59011001M6 T70011004 G90G10L10P#51999R0 G90G10L12P#51999R0 G0G90B270. G0G54.1P3G90X-1.215Y-2.S50M4 G43H#51999Z1. Z.1 G1Z-.775F6. M5 M51(HIGH PRESSURE COOLANT ON) S2101M3 G04P2000 G1Z-7.911F2.1 M5 G0Z-.775 S50M4 M9(HIGH PRESSURE COOLANT OFF) G0Z1. (END GUNDRILL CYCLE)

BTW... isn't what happens in beta supposed to stay in beta????

My re-seller wrote me a lovely gundrilling cycle - it'll be on the forum somewhere. By memory it was based on Pinkys one (that definitely is on here somewhere) and i'd tweaked/buggered about with it and my reseller polished it to do exactly as i wanted.

Glad we figured it out. Thanks for letting us know.

10 years later glad they finally made a tool to do this?