after 15 years Allan may be doing something else. Best start with your reseller

Hey Jay ... I hope all's well! So in V6, if a toolpath was created, it does not get saved in the GE3 file? I know I should remember, but at my age I can barely remember what I had for breakfast this morning!

The ONLY performace I am referring to is graphics...and GeForce will fall down eventually. In my mind, any trainer or reseller who does not know the level of work a customer is doing, chasing and/or apt to get, is doing them a disservice by recomenneding a GeForce card. I've been on the support side. If you know someone is doing mostly 2D, some 3D, heck, even some light 5 axis, a GeForce card can and does work. When you start programming with hundreds and hundreds of Operations, and hundreds of solid bodies....you will wish you had invested in a proper CAD card. JM2C YMMV

It lies in "how" they utilize the OpenGL instruction set, it also is the hardware as well, there are more processing pipelines available on the Quadro then there are on the Geforce line Just becasue they both have it, doesn't mean they both can do the same things.... Yes. That should be the GeForce will eventually fail https://www.gpumag.com/nvidia-quadro-vs-geforce/ Processing power is another area where Quadro clearly wins.

I can't help you with the seat but If I remember correctly v6 didn't have a toolpath manager without an addon that came way late. It was strictly post and append unless he is after geometry. edit:: actually I think the toolpath manager didn't come in until v7.

Quadro cards are simply designed and run software that is made specifically for CAD/CAM. It is really all in how it utilizes OpenGL. GeForce cards can suit some users.

As a hint for next time, if you are using the Mastercam Code Expert Text Editor, there is an "intelli-sense" function that will display a list of all the variables and functions in the MP language. You can filter by "postblock", "function", "string", and "variable". If you type in "a" for example, you'll get all the variables that start with "a". It can sometimes take a while to find what you are looking for, but some things are pretty straightforward to find. There are a bunch of "next" variables, and they all start with "n", which makes them easy to find...

Allan, Can you get me a quote? I have a two spindle SCM Router. Head 1 is five axis. [email protected]

and who remembers paying $300 for a 1 meg stick of ram and the guy at the store treats you like a total idiot because nobody needs that much ram or an 18 year old store clerk telling you with complete certainty that there is no such this as an 8" floppy disc