I have year old machine with QUADRO P4000 8GB and 32gb memory so it should work.

It has been broken from the beta releases of 2021. I have sent several bug reports about this to QC but it is still there. This happens so often that sometimes in a simple part I just create stock model from the operation and check if there is any problems. Restarting all open Mastercam sessions fix it for a moment..

I have seen this in 2020 and every beta release of 2021. It happened every time I used stock model. I have sent the files to qc. I just installed 2021 and for the first file I tried it seemed to work fine.

Im seeing this same problem in 3 axis work using WCS.

We got exactly same product licenses and services than last year, only the price went up! We have paid the maintenance over 15 years so you can imagine how this felt.

Probably just overflow of happy customer feedback after their latest increase on maintenance price. Mine went up 60%

I had the same problem of staining and we machine cast iron and many other materials with this machine. When I start aluminium job I will top out the coolant tank with high concentrate coolant and it has solved my problem for now.

I have a Fanuc controlled VMC that has side mounted toolchanger. The toolchange logic is different from our other machines so I have to make some changes to the postprosessor. I have managed to edit toolchange when there is multiple tools in the program but in one tool programs I have trouble getting it right. What I would need is toolchange like this: T1 M6 T1 <First tool posted again I have edit the postprosessor so that stagetool posts to the same line after M6 but in single tool programs I would need it to post the same tool number like in the example. What changes do I need to make?

After changing the tool number you could try regenerating the operation even if it doesnt go dirty. This should update your tool numbers.

We have a vmc with 18i- mb control that randomly shut down when running programs from memory card. Fanuc tech changed all the hardware inside control cabinet effecting memory card usage but nothing fixed the problem. Last resort he decided to update the control software with a newer version that he happened to have with him. If I remember right he had backed it up from a newer same manufacturers machine that he had serviced. After the update we have had zero problems using memory cards in this machine.

You dont know what kind of work I do or my background so please save you belitting attitude to somewhere else. Like David Im also toolmaker so thats why this topic got me writing because we seem to share a same problem. BTW. I have 18 years of experiece in machining, ten years programming with Mastercam (mostly one off stuff with mill and lathe) and almost all the machines that I have used have had Fanuc control. Im I qualified enough to write in this topic?

I did not miss anything, I´ve just learned from experience that when you start eye balling your program zeros on easy parts and save maybe 5 seconds doing so, sooner or later you scrap a part because of this. I prefer using one certain way of taking my work zeros that works almost every workpiece and its just happens to be the most accurate way also. I dont even remember when was the last time I Scrapped a part because of wrongly placed program zero so atleast it has worked for me, everyone else can use what ever works best for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fuToCteErc&feature=youtu.be Here is an quick and dirty example how I take X- axis program zero to center without calculator. Requires only pressing three keys and I dont have to input any coordinates. This software is made by the machine tool builder. Feature like this should be part of every fanuc control.

Isnt this kind of primitive in a high end machine tool? BTW You only have to be on the right work offset and enter for example X0. press measure and it will automatically update the right axis

Majority of my parts are like this and also too big to measure with caliber. I like to put my part zero in the center so I have even amount of stock on both sides of the part.