You have to create a new drill cycle and select it in there. All it does, is post out a sub call routine for each point you select.

Set your retract to .1 above your top of stock number. It starts pecking at your retract height Or change to incremental

ncplot. Now there is a name I haven't heard in a while.

There are some articles online that will help explain how to separate the date out in to something usable. https://www.mmsonline.com/articles/converting-time-and-date-to-a-more-useful-format

We usually end up doing the square broached holes on the mills and in the same way. We plunge out the corners. We're looking at a job that has a 1/4" square and it would be nice to be able to rotary broach that thing.

Have you tried any of their square broaches? If so, have you had any luck with them? Our lathe guys have had a rough time rotary broaching square holes.

I can't take credit for the solution. I've seen this happen quite a few times on here and that's always been some of the old timers response so I was just passing on the info. I'm happy that it worked out for you.

Try deleting your 'Documents/My Mastercam 2022' folder and let it rebuild. Back it up first so you don't lose your settings. If you are still using 2018 like your signature says change the 2022 to 2018.

Anyone know if the new waterline supports undercutting?

We've had customers for commercial parts come in and think that was pretty much how the process works. Upload a model to the machine. Machine makes part. They couldn't figure out why we had NRE's factored in to the quote.

As it turns out, it appears to just be for the machine profiles and nothing else. At least not that I can see.

It has a cloud login but I've never used it. Maybe I'll create a login and check it out.

No mud slinging here. I can only give anecdotal experiences and cite information that I've read. I would be curious to see how the newer higher end Quadro cards perform on your sample file.

Might be a worth while read. I've been down this road before. I'm using a GeForce card right now because we were building on a budget. If I'm working on something simple, it's perfectly fine. If I get in to a large assembly and need to turn on translucency to be able to see through things, it's almost impossible to rotate the model smoothly. This is in Mastercam. I also use TopSolid at work which seems to be a LOT smoother with the GeForce card than MC. That's not a knock on MC. I'm just pointing out that my experience varies application to application. https://www.engineering.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-geforce-and-quadro-graphics-cards

Did you point the 'open with' to that .exe?

I literally just went through something similar. Look for C:\Program Files\Common Files\Mastercam\McamVersionSelector.exe

I'm constantly right clicking in the toolpath manager. It's just habit now.

Damn.. this has to be close to the reviving the oldest thread award?

Does the Nomura salesman have a list of customers you can call to ask what they're using for that specific machine? Are you going to want full machine simulation with that? Anyone know what's happened with PartMaker since Autodesk absorbed them?

wow

It would be nice if you could lock it per operation rather than globally.

Here - I just did it on my desktop in about 30 seconds. edit: I didn't see the previous post. Active_Reports_OP_Tool_List_short 2021.zip

I decided to give it a shot on an odd shaped part were working on. I liked the way the path turned out. It took me a few minutes to get it dialed in. The file size was about 10X what it was using 3 separate optirough operations with multiple stock models. ACK!

The official https://mastercam.com forum requires you to link your account. The forum that I was talking about is kind of an offshoot from this forum and was created to compensate for a lack of an offtopic section. It was started so that we have a place to play without causing problems for IHS.