You can use Raster to Vector to get wireframe that looks (sort of?) like your image, but there is no support for Raster images in Mastercam. (Personally it would be nice if we could because we sometimes receive AutoCAD or 2D PDFs containing raster images ... and we ignore them)

My usual first move when something is just really wonky is to shut down Mastercam and restart... Clears whatever gets stuck in its head many times.

The data in ChainDetails is "read only".

If you use the raster to vector and choose the manually trace bitmap image you can bring an image into your file. And just for reference this was Bugsy who was my test subject

Deburr multiaxis now works with chanfer endmill. It's new with 2023. You need to check 'tool contact point' in tool axis control tab. (sorry for french screenshot...) Edit: Actually you didn't need to check it with chanfer (but only for end/taper mill). I attached a quick toolpath. test.mcam

No. A (.NET) List is like a (C++) std::vector and is “in order”. You do not [index] the “Key”, as it is not a list or array. You loop through the ChainEntities list for each item. The Key is the geometry entity, and the Value is the (bool) “am I flipped” flag for that entity.

We can see that it is a List of KeyValue pairs. -> ChainEntities = gcnew List<KeyValuePair<Mastercam::Database::Geometry ^, bool>> (); The Key is the geometry entity. (Not the ID of the entity.) The Value is a flag that lets us know if this entity is marked “flipped” in the chain. If you really want to “extract” add these entities to another List. foreach (var t in chainEntityList){ templist10.Add(t.Key);

Ajmer's method is best but if you don't have 2023 you could try what I show in the video below which seems to work nicely. https://fastechincorporated-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/support_fastechinc_net/ES1YwDAUs7FDqMI1NoXRqpIB_MCmS1rfP4nIFCzt5e4CmQ?e=rggHcU

Thanks for the quick responses! I am going to do both Zip2Go and folder backups as suggested and will talk to IT about cloning my drive before it dies. Thanks for the help.

Assuming your hard drive is still functioning properly, I would clone your old hard drive to the new hard drive then install it in your machine Done properly, you'll never know anything has changed I use an old copy of Acronis to do this.

If you can get it to run properly in Verify, save your Verify session as an STL file and use that to create your stock model You lose associativity with the toolpaths that define the stock model doing it this way, but you get a much more stable Mastecam file

Absolutely! Any (even all) the entities in a chain may be marked as "flipped".