Well I noticed my Space Pilot Pro drivers were pissed off so I uninstalled and reinstalled the 3Dconnexion device and bam!!!! Went back into MC and shes working smooth as silk. 

Thanks for the help Guys!! Have a great day.

Oh yeah restarted MC...restarted PC...reinstalled X+....reinstalled MC. Its very strange....The hard drive died on this pc and I just reinstalled everything on a new drive. I even thought maybe it was due to something not being updated. Went through all hardware updates and its still the same. 

Also its acting odd on how the picture shows up on the setup sheet.... normally when i would create a setup sheet.... I would click screen fit and then generate a setup sheet from X+ and the picture looks just like it does in mastercam. But now when i do that same thing the screen shot doesnt have the part centered and its zoomed in too far. So then I have to go back and zoom out in mastercam so the entire part is in the screen shot picture on the setup sheet.

Hello Gunther, Thanks for responding so quickly..

I do see the screen flash white just before the setup sheet comes up but the picture has the black background that Mastercam has set. Not sure what I should look for??

Yeah I know I can use other methods for a screen shot with white background but this is happening when I make setup sheets with x+ that need printed out. 

Thanks for the tip on Verisurfs free addon.

Having an issue.... been using X+ "which is great!!" Installed Mcam 2017 and X+ but every time I create a setup sheet with X+ the background color is what ever mastercam is... its not changing to white.  Any ideas???

I did notice that if you backplot inside of the verify screen menu it works, but if you try to use the backplot in toolpath operations manager it wont???? kind of odd.

When I backplot a simple drilling operation and step it thru, it jumps from the Clearance height striaght down to programed depth. Doesnt pause at the retract height and then onto final depth of hole. But when you display path it does show rapid down to retract height and then feed down to bottom. Has anyone else noticed this?

Thanks

I really like the new Optirough path, but the issue I am having is when I try to use the steep/shallow to force path to start above the geo "because stock size" it will generate a path but it stops at the top of the part in Mastercam and wont go any deeper. If I disable steep/shallow it starts just above the model and creates a great looking path roughing the entire part. Anyone else seeing this?

Sounds crazy but has anyone seen the RPM drop down and then cut a few passes and then pick back up and continue. Will optimize cut order have anything to do with this?? I have checked posted file for change in spindle command but found nothing. Only see spindle command for programmed rpm. Any thoughts??

No matter what I seem to do I cant get x3 to read the corner smoothing radius for a high speed pocket pass. But if I do it in x2 it works just fine. All setting are the same. Any thoughts????

everything is working great! Thankyou Gunther, I dont know what I would do with out X+

Thanks.

You Should have mail...hope this helps

Thankyou!!

Very Nice, Thank you Gunther. The only thing we have noticed so far is that when you create "Tool List" for more than one drill it seems to output drill tip angle "118" for the depth, but if you create a tool list for just one drill its ok. Thought that was a little odd.

Has anyone else noticed when pulling up a viewport is shows the gview correct but when you print it changes all views to top...

I have had this happen and it seemed to be a result of having the same nc name "default" for both files while tool paths are crunching numbers. Not just with mr2, this happened before also. Hope this helps.

Is there any way to see the Whats new file with out installing mr2??? Couldnt find it on site...

Ron Ive seen this happen also if your chaining and also using the spaceball to move/zoom/rotate ...complete your chain selection then hit esc to end function then some times it goofs up your views until you reopen your file. Even if you click after moving with spaceball

Yeah tell the wheel man youll break his fingers if he changes your program! Not sure if theres any setting you can change but you could save a copy of that program on your hard drive so... if it is changed on the floor you still have the copy.

What kind of indexable tooling do you have?? I know in the past we have used the same feed mills we cut tool steel with and were able to almost double the speed and feed but even though its indexable we had to run coolant so the inserts wouldnt load up on us.

Another tool thats VERY good is Ingersolls Form Master Line. "feed mill style" we use Iscars high feeds but Ingersoll seems to be more stable. FYI Ingersoll 2" dia form master .05 doc 40/50% step over runs 1350rpm and a feed of 320imp you'll get 3to4 hrs per edge on your inserts with good program methods. "never conventional cut!!!!" also we have run the 2" tool projected out 8" in length

several different things could be happening, but once simple tasks start crashing I end up rebooting my computer and that does help and also If master cam has been open for a long time "like over the weekend" it seems to also act up sometimes, also what kind of computer setup are you running??

Havent found a way to do that, but what you could do is make a dummy file that has all your tools, machine and stock set-up ready. So then all you have to do is fire up the file, import geo and then save as...

I have noticed if only using mc paths it seems to be ok, but when "crunching" 3-d paths with our add on cimco software it will get stupid from time to time

Thanks Thad

Not sure if I know what you mean, do you what to set a certain machine of yours as a defalt??