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StevenM

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  1. 3 minutes ago, gcode said:

    straight machine sim?   yes all the time

    Postability Machinesim is much better, 

    One thing Vericut does than Machine Sim can't is Autodiff 

    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!

  2. 20 minutes ago, gcode said:

     

    I use Machine Sim from Postability on our Okuma 5X HMC's 

    Of course the final program goes through Vericut before it hits the machine.

    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. 

  3. 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.

     

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  4. 6 minutes ago, crazy^millman said:

    Not in a million Years I will revert back to Pencil and Paper first.

    Yes what you pay post maintenance for. The same goes for In-House posts. They have a great team to support their customers.

    I did not know that, I thought all I had to do was run the migration wizard. 

    Thanks Colin and Ron!

  5. 1 hour ago, Colin Gilchrist said:

    Updating Posts should take a few minutes, using the Migration Wizard, unless the Posts are 3rd Party (like Postability), which are locked to a specific Mastercam Version, and require an update from the developer.

    I would bet you need to set your "Control Definition Defaults". This would simplify the updating process for any Posts that you've built or maintain, which are not version locked. (If there is no "PSB", the Post is open.)

    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?  

  6. 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.

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  7. 2 hours ago, Gary said:

    This I still don't understand, should be model/ stock aware by now. Hardest part of training new guys on mc especially if they came from a different software.

    Oh yeah, this threw me for a loop having come from NX first then into Mastercam. 

  8. 18 hours ago, #Rekd™ said:

    This gives a rough idea of the new stock setup/ machine group setup. It is starting look more like NX?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44jgulOq58A

     

    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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