I know the pain. Mastercam does not seem interested in fixing bugs and making current user's lives easier. But they ARE interested in getting new customers. There's more $$$ in new customers. If they went one full release JUST fixing the multitude of stupid, bullxxxx bugs that have been lingering for years they would have a solid package. Nope, not happening. They have to get that new sale by flashing new bells and whistles that un-ironically create more and more bugs in the core software that often don't get fixed.

They're in every software. Literally. But somehow Mastercam seems to have a corner on the market for sheer quantity and level of work-flow-interruption. Somebody should! (present company excluded) I haven't even opened 2023 and won't. We're still running 2020 here. If the stock setup issue is still xxxxed up we'll prolly wait even longer.

Those 6th graders need all the help they can get. Seriously though... remember when your car's repair manual told you how to adjust the valves? But now they tell you not to drink the liquid that's in the battery? The Pop-Tart generation seriously hampered our ability to get work done. Machine shops are like Adult Daycare these days. People suing because they didn't have time to get from their workstation to the break room, forcing companies to add 4 minutes to each break and 10 minutes to lunch. You can't tell someone they suck at their job, etc. Worker: "You fired me because I'm ____________." Boss: "No. We HIRED you because you're __________. We FIRED you because you're worthless here." Worker: "AHHHHHhhhhhh! Muh feels!"

We prolly won't be moving to '24 for a few years (we're still happily on '20). But from what @Chally72 just said, that's a HUGE improvement. It's super annoying having to change stock settings every time you want to verify something. And having some stupid random stock size pop up when you first start (because you didn't set the stupid settings Every. Single. Time.) gets old fast. I'm hopeful this will be worth the price of admission when we DO upgrade.

And other criteria, like workholding rigidity, taper size of the spindle, h/p or spindle, machine-size/rigidity (we can't do 25% on our little Brothers but we can on the DMGs).

^^^ This. ^^^ #@$%ing this!! ^^^ MC lost their workflow when they moved to the X GUI. Real shame too because it used to flow well. Now GibbScam has better flow than Mastercam. I'd be joining in on the community LOLs but since I know both software's so well I have to deal with it every day.

You know, that's a really, you know... good explanation of what's going on with the, you know, floor stock and wall stock. You know?

Nice necro! First thing I do is turn that crap off. It's deceiving when looking at it on a 2d screen. If screens had 3d it "might" be a different story. It's like I'm stuck looking at a drawing of a horse from a typical 6 year old with a huge head, normal body and tiny feet.

If it's just settings go to File / Configuration / Screen / Selections.

I would think that would be more of a controller limitation.

Oh. Well... There's a Terry-worthy rabbit hole I don't have time to go down. I've been using verify and just now found machine simulator, which I can't get to work.

What? Don't judge me.

Gotta make the maintenance customers feel like they're getting their money's worth. Considering the current crop of "leaders" in the US mayhaps Banana Republic units is more accurate.

There is another forum?

I can't find it, prolly in a newer version than 2020. That would be cool though!

In verify when there's a chip left over from an operation, and a following operation hit's it, it calls it a collision. Is there a way to "ignore chips" when in verify? I could have swore MC did that back in the day (or maybe it was just remove chips?)

I beta tested the first X versions. Haven't since. I was referring more to the current list of undocumented features and workflow-derailment functions I've seen.

Thanks Ron. I'll send a request to IT.

Based on what I've seen in the last several months after being away from it for many years... I'd say they pay as much attention to them as ever.

There's so much division these days. Can't we all just get along? Thanks Josh. I'll create an account when I get a moment. I created a new tool and got through the part.

It's just the 1 tool. I'll recreate it. Thanks Ron!!

Ahh, you may be right.

...because of a communications error. I grabbed a tap from a library and when I try to edit it I get this message. Other tools in the same library can be edited. Short of re-creating the tool how can I fix this? TYIA

8mm endmill and a simple contour toolpath should do it.

Is this a default dialog every time something is transformed or does it really think it created "duplicates entities"?