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Jobnt

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  1. Jobnt
    And here-in lies the problem. Lazy (ignorant??) software programmers often think everyone uses the software the same way they do so they don't take into consideration that what works for them might not work for their "customers" "users" or whatever you want to call them. So yeah, my hill, my battle, my sanity and my very accurate signature.
  2. Jobnt
    Does it still open full screen? /asking the tough questions
  3. Jobnt
    I thought Varco was separate from Active Reports? I will never use Active Reports until they correct their anal-cranium-inversion and quit opening the app full screen on my 3 foot monitor. Yeah, I know, cutting off muh nose to spite muh face and all that. I don't use CNC Edit Man for the same reason even though it's fairly well set up for what we do here.
  4. Jobnt
    What the hell are they planning now?
  5. Jobnt
    Now do ActiveReports. (NoLOL)
  6. Jobnt
    Preach it, brother!!
  7. Jobnt
    As G mentioned, no. Best you can hope for is to keep the old version of Gibbs around to make edits if/when you need to. You can move geometry between apps but not toolpaths. The dynamics are way too different. And the toolpaths in Gibbs are very simplistic compared to the toolpaths in Mastercam. How much do you actually have to go back and make changes to old Gibbs programs? If it's not very often I would say cut your ties with Gibbs now and if you need to update any programs redo them in Mastercam.
  8. Jobnt
    Worked at a place where we did a lot of microwave housings for aerospace. We would literally program and run a part to get accurate cycle times. And we could give the customer a sample part when we turned in the quote. This approach opened a lot of eyes and won us many contracts. Once we started doing this the number of missed features went down exponentially and our quotes were way more accurate. Unfortunately that business model was sustainable for a new startup but was absolutely not sustainable for a production shop.
  9. Jobnt
    Cameras in cell phones have made every soccer mom a sports photog. Can't make a decent living in photography any more since people give away their xxxx for free just for their 15 minutes of fame. Rhinos, Razors and other SxS' have made every clueless idiot a desert racer. Can't ride in the desert without worrying about some tool that thinks he's Mike xxxxing Metzger flying over a hill and landing on you.
  10. Jobnt
    This. ^^^
  11. Jobnt
    Yes, I think you can purchase a PDM separately. We have ePDM here and it does work with all file types, but you will lose your Mastercam Preview ability for anything stored in the vault. When you preview a MC file it looks like this:
  12. Jobnt
    This was it. The plane was off by a few seconds. Couldn't see it unless I zoomed in and scrolled the window along an edge. Thanks g. You da man!
  13. Jobnt
    I don't want to renumber the tools. I want to align the H and D values with the current tools. In fact, I'd wager a guess that renumbering tools is one of the things that throws them off.
  14. Jobnt
    Is there a Chook / Nethook / VBS that I can run to iterate through the tool library and align H's & D's with T's?
  15. Jobnt
    Ideally I'd like the H and D values inside Mastercam to stay the same and quit randomly changing. The post fix is a fix, but it does not solve the problem because my setup sheets are based on the NCI file not the posted file and will post the errant code. A script to iterate through all the tools and change the H and D values to match the T would be the second best solution.
  16. Jobnt
    What does OK do vs what Cancel does? Or do they do the same thing? I can't see any difference if I click OK or Cancel.
  17. Jobnt
    Unless there's something besides what was mentioned above (i.e. the CD being wrong, mine is not) then it seems there isn't a "fix". Hence why I asked this: The thing is, these T, H and D values match when I start the program. Somewhere down the road they lose their xxxx and I have no idea why or what's causing it.
  18. Jobnt
    Back in the day we used different H and D values to do very much the same thing. It's much easier to let the operator make the change via an offset than to re-program or edit the program.
  19. Jobnt
    Nice, easy, clean fix. I have my CD set up to use From Tool. This does make it easier to fix them using the tool manager instead of doing each operation but doesn't keep them the same. If I change it to Add to Tool and set both to zero will that force them to align in the tool manager? Is there a way to do this with a script? Iterate through the tools and align H and D?
  20. Jobnt
    Tried the search, it just hangs for several minutes and doesn't do anything, sorry if this has been covered. Not sure what's causing this. There's literally no pattern. T1 H1 D1 T2 H3 D3 T3 H15 D15 T4 H5 D5 T5 H22 D22 T6 H5 D5 Are there any bugs associated with this or is anyone else having this issue?
  21. Jobnt
    Is your part tight in the vise? Looks like it might be loose, causing some chatter.
  22. Jobnt
    Doing God's work!
  23. Jobnt
    It never did for me either until this week.
  24. Jobnt
    I updated .net framework a few months ago and haven't done any updates since. I started noticing the bottom error when I turn collisions off in verify.
  25. Jobnt
    Deadlock due to omp_set_lock being called on lock already owned by thread Been getting errors in verify that didn't happen before. Specifically when I turn off Stop Conditions "collision" I get the bottom error, then today I got the top error with it. 2020.

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