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Yes sorry, I meant Postability Mach Sim. I dislike that there are essentially two functions called "Mach Sim," it always causes confusion lol.
I had to look up what Autodiff is, that seems pretty handy!
Out of curiosity, does Vericut often catch things that Mach Sim misses? I only have Mach Sim to use where I work, its never let me down per-se but I'm always a little nervous when we does simultaneous 5X stuff.
Essentially 1 HMC, 1 VMC, 1 5 axis mill, and 2 wire EDMs. I mostly program tooling for form dies and stuff of that nature.
We have 2 other mills but they generally just run older production programs, occasionally new production parts will come through on them.
Also have 4 lathes but I have only made around 10-15 programs for them in the 3 years I have been programming.
After you click on what you're wanting to move and place the gnomon origin position, that little box comes up. You click it to switch between the modes
Hopefully thats what you are asking!
At the risk of asking something that may have an obvious answer...
We have a Postability post, I have only ever used the migration wizard when updating versions. Should I be contacting postability/my reseller when I update each year?
I can't answer anything for the "break," function, but in your example you posted can you just use model prep, modify feature, delete? I can usually delete 99% of holes like the ones in your picture, occasionally I get the odd one or two that won't delete.
We use both NX and Mastercam where I work, Mastercam for 5 axis and NX for everything else. One thing I really like about NX is the ability to specify clearance planes for your workpiece/stock in the MCS (NXs version of WCS) and have the ability to "inherit" said clearance plane inside of toolpaths. I haven't had the chance to download Mastercam 2023 yet, any chance that something like this exists in it? Or maybe has all along and I just never noticed? My Z zero is off the bottom 90% of the time and our parts are all different heights so I find myself forgetting to set a different height for the clearance plane because in NX I have it set to a generic value and its inherited by all the toolpaths so they'll always clear during retracts and what not. It sucks bouncing back and forth between two softwares but whatever. Just curious if you guys would know or not! Thank you!
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