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  1. Thought your company was not on active maintenance, but you can open a 2024 file?
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  2. I have been doing a ton of traveling this year and have had many different screen setup to deal with. My home setup is (3) 27" Asus Monitors using a dell docking station. One the road I may have to mirror my laptop screen with a TV or monitor to teach Mastercam. Other places I have 2 monitors I can use. This can be changed each time and things moved around or I can just different workspace files. This is my current process by having backup copies of the different screen layouts and then just delete the current workspace file and then copy the one I need and rename back to mastercam.workspace I could write a BAT file to do this, but in less than a minutes I can make the change and so just do in all manually. HTH
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  3. Remember Mastercam filtering has been and is still tore up from the floor up. Simple test make a 100" diameter sphere and then flowline the sphere with a 1" ball endmill. Throw as many filters as you want at it. See which one gives you only 100% arc moves for the cuts. I have ran this test on every X version since X came out. Not a single version can give me 100% arc using filters. I have backplot the toolpaths make arcs and run a Contour toolpath with no comp and guess what the code never matches. This is the math test the filter fails every year. Just ran into using 2D Peel on a 40 year old machine. Wanted the smalest amount of code possible. What does anyoen think gave me the smallest code out Mastercam? . . . . No one willing to guess what filter settings gave me the correct code? . . . . . Come on no one is willing to guess? No filters gave me the best code. Now no filters on a 3D toolpath doesn't behave the same as with filters. Let me repeat that no filters on a Peel mill toolpath gave me the cleanest code with all the arcs and line movements. With a filter it was junk IMHO. Now 3D toolpaths don't behave the same way. Screams fundamental math problem somewhere and for over 15 years no one has dug into why. I am the crazy person on the forum so I guess there is that to consider I mean we all know math is about feeling and mood swings. No way I should expect a G2 and G3 to be just that they can be whatever Mastercam decides it wants them to be and just keep your head down and go along with the idea it is good and it is good.
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  4. That's a fine way to do it (although I'd switch One Way to Spiral..). What's the production qty looking like? It might be worth doing it with two tools, a larger ball mill to do most of it, and only using the small tapered tool to do a few passes right at the end?
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  5. i would use somethingajmer_ihs_emastercam file.zip like this
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