This is long over due, but welcomed. Any chance this will roll into the regular contour paths? it would be extremely helpful to optimize feed rates in corners while maintaining the actual programmed feed rate. I know this can be done locally, but it is a real PITA and should be handled inside MC.

Yeah, both my VF-4's had rotarys with Lang face plates and tombstones. it was like having two little horizontals. bummer was only 50 tools so resident was 1-20 and rest were specials. they were also very productive little machines. my st-30 was the one bad investment. im not much of a lathe guy so i only bought it to prevent subbing out the little turning work we got.

Had Haas out the first time it made that noise. the reply was a perfect HAAS response "oh, its fine, it will go away with a software update" that sound never went away

I purchased a new 2014 UMC. it was pretty accurate ( for a haas ). on a few parts that had concentric bosses 180 deg apart we did have to use the probe to locally set the work coordinates in order to hold a .001 tolerance. for anything +/-.005 or greater it was a really good machine. one weird thing is once in a while we did ridged tap when a thread mill was not on hand. it made the worst grinding sound you ever heard. other than that, that machine made me a lot of money over the years.

I have a situation I can’t seem to resolve. This is happening on multiple files. Each time I re-open them, the tool path will be at an incorrect orientation. I’m sure it’s something small, just haven’t figured it out yet. The paths are generated and have a green check. The paths are generated and have a green check yet they show incorrectly until you hit re-gen. on this sample file, if you hit re-gen the path will move to the correct orientation. if you hit save and re-open the file will be correct. unfortunately on the actual part files the re-gen then save is not sticking. how to re-create open file select the tool path and hit the toggle display to on notice the path looks incorrect. hit re-gen and the path move to correct spot. ******don't hit save***** any help would be appreciate. and yes i have already asked my reseller. MC_TEST_TO_SHARE.mcam

i attached the wrong file. will fix in the morning.

Wasn't that about the same time mastecam stopped creating its own tool paths and began purchased them from a (unnamed ) 3rd party? makes a lot of sense why legacy paths do not have or need a filter. New tool paths are point to point and need the filter i believe.

Would Peel Mill path work for this?

Wasn't there a dude named John on here about 12-15 years ago the would always loose his S*iT? and then go post on other software platforms?

I wonder how long it will ne before we see Mastercam go to the SAAS model and begin rolling out subscriptions only.

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Tagging this post. I watched Colins's entire youtube course on this and ended up with a pretty nice post. We have CAMplete so this was just for fun, but I'm really interested in eventually adding G68.2 to the generic 5x post just to have for simple projects and ensure the setup guys are seeing the same code on the floor. So, Thanks again Colin!

Thank you very much! that was the issue!

MC 2024. Cant share file. Application: Finishing a 10.0" long helical part on a 4th axis that has a 18 deg flat entry and exit on the other end. unified is giving me a nice path to finish the floor, but its not continuing to the flat section. Swarf works just fine with a single pass. any buttons or switches Im missing to keep it down and continue off the part? top 2 pics are unified an the btm pic is swarf

its outputting with this line. else, pbld, pn, *tlngno$, strcancool, pe, pms problem i have is it is also outputting the it on every other line as well N5 G00 G90 G17 G20 G40 G49 G80 G94 (T5 - 0242_HSS_STUB_DRILL - H5 - D5 - DIA .242") T5 M06 G54 H5 M08 X-1.0935 Y.6259 S2368 M03 G43 H5 Z1. H5 *************** G94 G98 G83 Z-1. R.1 Q.1 F7.1 H5 ************* X1.6043 Y.6115 H5 ************* G80 H5 ************ X-.6306 Y-.3258 H5 *********** G98 G83 Z-.75 R.1 Q.1 F7.1 H5 X1.1352 Y-.3153 H5 G80 G49 M09 M05 G91 G28 Z0. M01