1 hour ago, JoshC said:

... they likely are not going to change it at this point and no one from their team ever comments on the new stock setup regression, probably because there is no leg to stand on and its so easy to prove how the old one was better in almost every way

I'd seriously like to know what CNCSoftware's logic is when they do xxxx like this. You vill eat ze bugs and you vill like it.

1 hour ago, JoshC said:

Oh. Sorry, sir.

1 hour ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

That's right, it's THE MAN tryin' to keep ya down.

Did you just assume their gender? 

42 minutes ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

That will never happen..   There's about 20 UX reasons that's a bad idea, but the biggest is different languages

Imma call BS on this. If it "won't" happen it's because they don't "want" it to happen. 

It's called a GUI for a reason... Make it GUI. Give the CUSTOMERS what they want. Move on to the next big thing. 

It's simple. Really. Simple.

9 minutes ago, JoshC said:

people dont like the new stock setup

Hey, CNC Software, you seeing this? ^^^^

9 minutes ago, JoshC said:

always falls on deaf ears

Hey, CNC Software, you seeing this, too? ^^^^

9 minutes ago, JoshC said:

they have to be ignoring us

Hey, CNC Software, how about this? Are you seeing this? ^^^^

Time to step up your game. This ain't stinkin' rocket science. 

3 hours ago, Thad said:

we do a lot of holes that start and end at different Z depths (inside pockets, keys, break into pockets/steps on the other side, etc) so I change back and forth from absolute to incremental multiple times per day. I also copy and reuse toolpaths all day long. So if you think Abs/Inc is changed "almost never," you're wrong.

Like I said, it's like CNC Software is getting their product development direction from the Marketing department, not from the end users.

15 minutes ago, OVodov said:

I tried to create another account so I could like this again but it wouldn't allow me.  

On 7/6/2022 at 3:36 AM, So not a Guru said:

I haven't heard anything about 2023 that makes me want to consider moving to it.

This. A thousand times this!

We have it here but nobody wants to use it because, well... it's Mastercam. Why do all y'all think I kept using v9 for over a decade?  

Hey, CNC Software, how about listening to your users instead of your Marketing department when you do updates? Mkthx. 

50 minutes ago, MIKE_B said:

This is what i'm afraid of!  

Boss: "Why did it crash?"

Programmer: "I DON'T KNOW!!!"

36 minutes ago, #Rekd™ said:

Sharpen your crayons!! :D~~~~~

Can't. Every time I try to sharpen them I get hungry and eat them. 

#FirstWorldProblems #BananaRepublicProblems

17 minutes ago, Chally72 said:

how often we're changing from incremental to absolute and back- almost never every hour.

Little fissaroo for ya...

17 minutes ago, Chally72 said:

there is the ability to simply hover over the dropdown and scroll the mousewheel

My mousewheel is smooth (i.e. it sucks) and it's difficult to get things to scroll one item at a time. Been looking for an excuse to get a new one.

17 minutes ago, Chally72 said:

a page that was already full

Uhh, here's some room... ??!!

4 hours ago, Thad said:

I'm seeing a trend with Mastercam. The more time that goes by, the more it sucks.

They keep changing things for the sake of, well... changing things. Not because they make a programmers job easier or more fluid or more practical or more productive.

It's like they're getting their direction for product development from people who have never programmed a part before.

11 minutes ago, nperry said:

Because there's going to be a non-zero number of new, very annoying glitches in this upcoming version and the aesthetic appeal of drop down menus is the only thing that's going to make downloading it even remotely palettable.

Oh man. This guy. He gets it!

51 minutes ago, AHarrison1 said:

I dont think he/she/it is justifying any implementation, he/she/it is pointing out that the OP does not need the extra mouse click.

Was mostly joking. But seriously, why was this even changed? 

1 hour ago, Johnward Holmeson said:

Just hover over and use your mousewheel.  No extra click

Why are you trying to justify bad implementation?

2 hours ago, Newbeeee™ said:

Oh Wokey dopey SW

Words can hurt people. Especially adults. 

LOL?

Thanks Aaron.

Looks like 2020 doesn't have that option. Will try Reset All.

Trying to set up a keyboard shortcut for another programmer to Offset Chains. Using Customize Ribbon and selecting Keyboard Shortcuts, all I can find is Offset and it defaults to single entity without a way to change to select chains.

On my computer, if I click Offse then mouse-over Offset Chains it says it's assigned to ALT-E, which it is. But the other computer doesn't have anything assigned. My guess is he assigned something else to ALT-E and it overwrote the ribbon. Is there a way to get it back. 

On 5/20/2023 at 7:05 AM, byte said:

im ded x, i just lost so many brain cells from reading this

You're so cute. Pretending reading this is what's killing ur brain cells.

38 minutes ago, neurosis said:

...a few cocktails ...  

Did someone call me?

15 hours ago, HeathS said:

a small shop, limited funds

Totally get that. I know a guy that had a 4-machine shop that ran v6 I think it was (the one where you couldn't change a toolpath and regenerate it, you had to recreate it). 

He did a couple 2 and 3 axis programs a week for very simple, prismatic parts. There's no way he could justify spending five figures for software. It would literally take decades to pay for itself.

But CNC Software is a for-profit company. They don't care about the shops that will not buy their software so there will be zero effort from them to make things backwards compatible. Understandably so. 

Machine pr0n FTW!

1 hour ago, Johnward Holmeson said:

If you do go down the win2k or winxp route make damn sure it's not connected to the internet.  If you do connect it to the internet expect it to be compromised fairly quickly.

This guy ^^^ He gets it. 

The XP machine running v9 at my house hasn't seen the light of internet in close to two decades.

2 hours ago, JoshC said:

why would someone want to run V9 when they have 20+ years of improvements,

The keyboard driven process flow in v9 is vastly more fluid than the pointer driven requirements of today's interface. IMO of course. 

Not to mention they didn't have those embarrassingly implemented ActiveReports in v9. Man, what a mess that turned out to be.

I still have an XP box that runs Mastercam v9.1sp2. Maybe try and downgrade the hardware AND software.

3 minutes ago, Radical1 said:

Cancels the merge

But it doesn't. It leaves the solid in the file. 

What does this button do?