On 6/7/2022 at 2:08 PM, #Rekd™ said:

This gives a rough idea of the new stock setup/ machine group setup. It is starting look more like NX?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44jgulOq58A

Still wish they wouldn't take some of the simple way of doing things away. I get the direction they are headed but.....

It would be easy for them to just incorporate the stock setup from 2022 IMO .

Why are we missing some of the old 2022 Features in stock set up?  Before you could click all entities and then it would give you a quick part size and location relative to Origin. You could select corners. Super simple for quick referencing of parts. Sometimes I just want a nice simple wireframe for my stock, don't always need a solid model.

Is there a way we can get back? I missing something or is this just another case of taking something easy away and replacing it with something more complicated?

Jason 

I also have this problem. Mine is normally when I am importing a Creo file.  Its very random and seems I wont have the problem if I turn off the new option for using B-Rep mapping for Creo files. 

Jason 

yay, bring on X7

That would be nice. But I wont hold my breath on that one... Better yet how about X6 MU2??

Sorry, I misunderstood what you were after.

No problem. It just seems like something so simple should be there.

Why not use taper mill? just curious.

Well if I want my part to verify correctly I believe I would have to use a straight wall cutter. I don’t see the option I am looking for under the taper cutters. Can you make the taper cutter straight then taper them back?

Maybe I am missing something here. But when creating Flat end mills or even a Ball end mills, Why cant we have an option in there to create a draft angle? Almost every smaller end mill under .125” has some type of draft after the neck diameter. Would this not save a lot of time with this option instead of creating custom tools all the time?

can't argue with that

Sounds good. I think we get a pretty good discount from here. The company buys tons of computers from Dell.

Thanks for all you help.

By the time you've bumped the Dell up to match the SolidBox, you'll be up to $4K

 

Solidbox is Dell with Dell warranties... We've got 4 of them now... and will by more as the need arises

I understand that,, But since my company only wants us to use our approved vendor. There is nothing I can do about it.

I tryed to match the Solid Box one. My price for this is $2200.

Genuine Windows® 7 Professional, No Media, 64-bit

Quad Core Intel® Xeon® W3565 3.20GHz, 8M L3, 4.8GT/s

12GB, 1333MHz, DDR3 SDRAM, ECC (3 DIMMS)

2GB NVIDIA® Quadro® 4000, DUAL MON, 2DP & 1DVI

300GB SATA, 10K RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™

The T3500 is a Dual core 2.4 Ghz

The T7500 is a Quad Core 2.26 GHZ

 

The Dell SolidBox I linked to is a Quad Core 3.2 GHZ which is WAY faster than either the T3500 or the T7500

 

It will run circles around either of these machines

 

 

You can check the speeds of these proccessors here Use the search field..

Well I can select Quad Core Intel® Xeon® W3565 3.20GHz, 8M L3, 4.8GT/s as a option on the list. The document file I attached shows all the options on there. I can mix and match anything from there.

I have attached the 3 different boxed I can choose from. Each one can be customized. If you wanted to open them up and see what is in there for options that would be awesome.

Gcode, looks like I can get about the same box you’re talking about with 12gigs of memory

T3500.doc

T7500.doc

T5500.doc

Jeff, we dont have an option for the i7.. I was told this morning that by budget was to keep it under $5k.

Gcode, That box you sent me, do you know what the Benchmark times are at on that one? I can get that same box as one of my options.

So I am guess processor speed is the most important?

Thanks

FYI: Dual means 2 processors

and those aren't cheap

 

about $1200 each on Newegg.com

SO is that a good thing? They are bugging me to make a decision right now.

If I had a choice to choose a better chip I would, but this is what Medtronic wants to go with so I don’t have a choice. They pick computers mainly for PRO-E and they don’t really care about Mastercam.

I could upgrade my Graphics card but if they are willing to buy me a new computer that is potentially better, I am going that route.

 

I was just told by my manager to keep it under 5k and see if it gets approved...

 

What is the most important thing for Mastercam? Should I go with something with less cores like this Quad Core Intel® Xeon® W3565 3.20GHz, 8M L3, 4.8GT/s or more cores like the one below.

This is what I was thinking.

 

 

Dual Six Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5660, 2.8GHz,12M L3, 6.4GT/s, turbo

12GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory, 1333MHz, ECC (6 DIMMS)

300GB, 3.0Gb/s, SAS, 3.5 inch, 15K RPM Hard Drive

2GB NVIDIA® Quadro® 4000, DUAL MON, 2DP & 1DVI

If I had a choice to choose a better chip I would, but this is what Medtronic wants to go with so I don’t have a choice. They pick computers mainly for PRO-E and they don’t really care about Mastercam.

I could upgrade my Graphics card but if they are willing to buy me a new computer that is potentially better, I am going that route.

I was just told by my manager to keep it under 5k and see if it gets approved...

What is the most important thing for Mastercam? Should I go with something with less cores like this Quad Core Intel® Xeon® W3565 3.20GHz, 8M L3, 4.8GT/s or more cores like the one below.

This is what I was thinking.

Dual Six Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5660, 2.8GHz,12M L3, 6.4GT/s, turbo

12GB, DDR3 RDIMM Memory, 1333MHz, ECC (6 DIMMS)

300GB, 3.0Gb/s, SAS, 3.5 inch, 15K RPM Hard Drive

2GB NVIDIA® Quadro® 4000, DUAL MON, 2DP & 1DVI

Is Dell your only option? (yuck)

What is your budget?

Yes Dell is our only Choice. They give up a list of what we can choose.. I would say I have to keep it under $3500 if I had to guess. We tryed to push one through a while back that was $5k and that didnt go over very well.

My computer I have now is working fine. Its just that we are allowed to upgrade our computers every 3 years. I run 5axis,3 axis all with surfaces.

Hey guys… I am up for a new computer. Can someone please take a look at the file I attached and help me configure the best from what options I have. From my company, I don’t have allot of options to pick from. I can pick from a Dell T3500, T5500, or a T7500. I have Attached the T5500. Any Help would be appreciated.

I am running X5MU1,

Right now my computer is:

Dell T5400

Intel Xeon E5405 2.00Ghz (4 cpu's)

3326MB Ram

Nvidia Quadro FX3700/512MB

Is there a way to manipulate a leftover path to act like a flowline? If you have a bunch of corners to pick out the leftover paths just seem to be too choppy for my liking.

Why isnt there an option for a containment for a Flowline? Its greyed out. It would be nice if it was there. I am trying to pick some corners out on this part. I have used flowline to machine the main body and I dont like how other tool paths pick corners out. Maybe I am missing something?

How are you guys who have a bunch of programmers, setting up Mastercam on all those computers? Say if we have 10 guys running Mastercam and there is a new release like X5. It’s a pain to go and migrate everyone’s personal setting and all. Its there an easy way to manage all of that?

Also when installing X5 it wants to default to Documents and Settings. Well our D&S is on the network so we really don’t want to be pulling files off the network. Is there a way around using the My mcamx5 and Shared McamX5 folders? Not sure if I am making any sense or not just trying to make life a bit easier over here since our IT department doesn’t support this software and I am the one dealing with it.

Thanks

When you say project a 2d toolpath onto a round surface. You have to click 3d contour, but when you do this, wont the cutter actually gouge when it wraps around the cylinder? I am also using the MCX box font.

I got this to work by moving the filter around. Maybe that was too tight. I changed surface quality to good.

I will try some of the other suggestion that where mentioned. I just never seemed to have a problem with this before.

Thanks

I am trying to engrave letters on a part and when I run a Surface Finish Project, use the window button to chain my letters, It doesnt want to cut the "T"' and "I" completely. It shows up as its chained,but wont tool path them. we have tryed it on 2 computers here and both do the same thing.

Have you tryed saving it and then opening the file back up?