It miight be that CimcoEdit is looking for the liicense using a chook or something. Mastercam will not look all thetime for the licnese so Cimco does not get the info that quick. You can get free of charge a license file for NetHahsp when sending Cimco or your dealer your SIM number. They will send a license file. Then it works without any waiting.

Camaix has a chook for this. Currently thye do not have it for X6, though I think they will update it. Now, does anyone else have a solution for calculating the volume of a surface model? reijo

Do you use Nethasp? If so, when CimcoEdit OEM version is checking the SIM, the Nethasp check is sometimes slower. If you use CimcoeEdit Pro (recommended anyway), you get a license file and the SIM is not anymore tested. Cimco will also supply a license file free of charge to those with this problem. Your dealer should contact Cimco.

Is there any way to have an icon for the tool list, like X+. Now you need to open Tool manager, then right click, then Import/expoter and finally report. Any quicker way?

Most probaly the error is in the config file. There is section [data paths] that you should check. If you have not used any own settings or paths, you can just delete the cfg files. Mastercam will build them at the next time it is started. The default values will be used, so you should first save the old cfg files in case you want to merge old settings.

I called them. It is a temporary problem as it worked a few hours back. So you should try again later. As for the donation. This is , of course, free, but I just thought it is polite for the one who did the application that someone remebers him (or actually her , in this case.)

Mastercam metric tool libraries have had quite poor feed & speed values. The only good one is the Steel-mm.tools. Of course, no libary provided can has the values as you would like them to be. If you want to generate libraries that could suite you much better, just click on this link http://mastercam.ilmatar.net/tool_lib/index.php If you find it useful, you could consider making a donation. We could get the guy write some other useful application, if he finds that he can get something for his work.

If you need synchronizing today in Mastercam. you can use CAMAIX Synclathe. It can also do machine simulation. They have NC code machine simulation. The simulation is based on the same Moduleworks technology as the NCI machine simulation that you get free for Mastercam, so it is easy to learn. See http://www.camaix.net/SyncLathe_en.html and http://www.camaix.net/NCX2Check_en.html

I do not think it can be as it is a web based program. However, it is so easy and quick to use that you could use some other PC (fro eaxample at home) to create several libraries

I remember meeting some Autodesk ex-boss who told that with all those versions they had (OS/2 , Mac, Silicon Graphics, Sun etc) there was just one version (PC) that made any money. It could have been that there was one year were they made some profit with the Sun version. All the other version were losing money. I would not recommend CNC Software to lose monet this way.

If the tool is in your shop should have it your library. However, very often the tool is not in the standard library. This website helps yopu create libraries of those tools that you actually have.

Thad asked about the difference. Of course, you can create the tool libraries within Mastercam. And you should save the settings that you have found to be good. Also you should not have all those tools in the libary that you never will be using. The idea is that you can generate a libary quickly. Creating libraries tool by tool is quite time consuming. All the new ideas are welcome.

The reason for this site is that at least the metric tool libraries that come with Mastercam have values that are quite unusable (except for the Steelmm tools, that is the one I made) The idea is that you can look create your own libraries using those values found in tool manufacturers' cataloques. Of course, you really still want to fine tune the values according to your work and equipment. I guess the guy who did this is interested getting more info on the lathe tools.

Here is a link, where you can generate your own tool libraries. This is set for metric, but you can adjust the values for inches. http://mastercam.ilmatar.net/tool_lib/index.php Generating the tool libraries is free, though there is a Donate button.If you find the libraries useful, you should click on the button. There is something else in the works, too. Please send him comments You can give names to the tools, too. So the Spanish can call drills Taladro etc. OK, this is for X4. Maybe there could be something for X5, once that is out. Please give this a try

Funny enough, we have gotten something for the rope drum from John years ago. We get requests for the rop drum style tool path frequently. John, do you know what could be used as an universal solution. Here is a link to something called ropeCAM http://www.cenic.fi/english/ropecam_eng.htm