Levels should also have an option to show contents when active and hide it when inactive. This so you can arrow-key through the levels and find what geometry you're looking for, just like the Ops Manager has the option to turn on toolpaths for the selected operation so you can arrow-key through that and see toolpaths turn on and off. Makes finding stuff easier.

This may have been too much effort. He made another thread asking the same question.

The answer is in the previous thread you started of the exact same topic. How about you go there and do what is suggested instead of starting another thread?

Gotta laugh. The guys here (Ron, Colin etc) are top notch. They don't let temper-tantrums detract from their commitment to provide help to those that need it. Even if those that need it are too obnoxious to be humble about asking for said help. Hope you get it figured out. I bet you're a really swell guy in general but you're just overwhelmed with the simplistic complexity that is Mastercam.

Show off. ,.l..

My XP box that runs 9 does that when I leave the graphics window open with no dialog boxes. WHHHHRRRRRRRRRR

Which should be an obvious clear sign to CNC Software that they need to step up their game and listen to their users. The Mastercam user-base knows what they want, where CNC Software really doesn't.

Well you want all the latest and greatest bugs, don't you? There is no money in satisfied customers. It's like the medical industry. There is no money in healthy people. It's like the military industrial complex. There is no money in peace. It's like the automotive industry. There is no money in reliable vehicles. I could go on but you get the point. Us either. Most places I've seen are at least a full release behind. We're at 2020 still.

I was at West Tech a couple decades ago and the one new machine that stood out to me was running a 3" face mill in alum on a giant block but they were starting their cuts off the part with what looked like rapid feedrates for back in that day and when the spindle felt the resistance from the face mill cutting it slowed down the feed rate (and I believe the spindle speed) what appeared to be instantly, and chugged through the cut until it broke through the other side where it increased feed faster as it broke out of the full cut. I looked at the code and aside from the initial feed rate there were no other feed rates in the program. I always wondered what happened with that technology. Looks like it's used for crash protection now. Great idea who's time is overdue.

Actually, they were using G00 and tried to broach that part with a 2-1/2" dia drill. BOOM!!!

So it just lasts for that one session of simulator? Thanks!

Not tellin'..

Not sure what these do. I figured I could run sim to a specific point and save it, then come back in later, load the bookmark and verify from where I left off. They don't. "Hey, Bookmarks, what would ya say... ya do here?" -Bob

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Use different software. Mastercam has, uh, dammit, what's the word I'm looking for...? Oh yeah; dementia. Or maybe it was Alzheimers. One of those diseases where you forget things. I forget which one it is.

Huge v9 fanboi here but liking 2020 much better after spending quite some time getting used to it. Definitely spend some time in classes or on the tube watching vids, and ask questions here. These guys are on top of their game and love to help.

Is it me or did browsers quit supporting using the Backspace key to go back to the last page? Is there a workaround? This is really annoying.

4 years ago I worked at a local place in my small town and the guy used Mastercam v6 or v7 I think. What ever the last version that you could not make changes to a toolpath, you had to recreate it. All they did was simple prismatic parts so there was no real reason to upgrade, except nobody would touch it when he was gone so nothing got done.

Maybe a bit. I have no official training with solidworks but I have about 10,000 hours of seat time with it since the 00's so I'm fairly good at it. I knew the first time I sat down in front of it how much of a game changer it would be. Smartcam, holy xxxx you're old!

I didn't know they were even out back then. I was still using Cadkey doing surface modeling.

I was introduced to CAM with Gibbs when it was Macintosh only and came in 3 separate modules. Then Virtual Gibbs came out for Windows and they discontinued the Mac version. Real shame too because the Mac version was way more powerful than Virtual Gibbs. I also used Cimitron for a short stint doing 'trodes. Real powerful but a YUGE learning curve and I hated the way it trapped you in modules.

Methinks "they" were mistaken. Unless they were talking about GibbScam. I've been putting multiple ops in the same file since v9.

That is not a work-flow-stopping issue. It's more of an extremely embarrassing "Holy xxxx who the hell let THAT get by QC?" issue. And it lingered. For years. Like when a dog eats broccoli and starts non-stop farting afterwards.

Hahahahahahahahahaha, how long did it take them to fix THIS?

You're not like kids today, Terry. Kids today want everything done for them. In general, they'd rather not have to put in effort to make something work. Sooo glad I instilled strong work ethic with my boys.