simple batch file; net stop HASPLoader net stop HLServer timeout /t 60 /nobreak net start HASPLoader net start HLServer but it's easier to just use the aladdin monitor program i posted above.

you can use the aladdin hasp monitor to determine which computers have mastercam licenses checked out. http://www3.safenet-inc.com/support/hardlock/downloads.aspx aksmon.zip if you use the monitor on the hasp server, you can control the services with it also.

read the help information by clicking on the ? on the filter param page. it's quite informative.

got any light reading on possible advantages of using one surface type vs others for generating toolpaths? i made the decision to use curve generated surfaces based on assumptions. i'd like to know more on the subject.

all i can do is chuckle. i've been using multiaxis for only 8 months and run into it frequently. different strokes for different folks i guess.

so it has such a good interface that commands are difficult to find for seasoned users? how well does that work for newer users who don't even know the commands exist? the more i read about mcam 2017 here on the forum is the more i think i'm not going to bother "upgrading" from v9, which in reality is a retrograde, and switch to cimatron instead.

the iges and step specifications support curve generated surfaces. mastercam supports some of the imported curve generated types and converts the rest to nurbs. that's what jlw is seeing. i have mastercam configured to create curve generated surfaces by default. see photos above for example. that's not for importing data, that's for what is modeled in mastercam. i'm finding most if not all (i'm still learning it) of mastercam's multi axis surface toolpaths do not support support curve generated surfaces and they must be converted to nurbs or parametric. i've gotten to the point where it's almost habit to do it before programming multiaxis parts. i could go on a blazing rant about all the glaring inconsistencies in this software, but after a quarter century of using it, meh, i'm comfortably numb and it doesn't bother me very often anymore.

same command to convert curves hide everything but surfaces then alt -> e -> o -> clrl-a -> enter

i use curve generated surfaces by default and have gotten that message too on numerous occasions. i'm not at my workstation so can't remember the commands exactly (i hammer on the keyboard with muscle memory) but there's a convert surfaces to nurbs command under edit or create surfs.

create a flat boundary surf using the inner boundary and translate it up so it is above all the surfs. use it as a checksurf to keep the tool out of the area you don't want to cut.

for 24 years i've been using the e key to end a chain in mastercam. yay progress!

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regionally, where are you?

the last update to v9, or the one before it, has broken the ability to use the "e" key to end a chain vs clicking on the plus button in the chain manager. i've been letting it slide because i thought it might be something on my system and i'm to busy to be arsed to look into it. but today i had another mcam user on another system ask me if i knew how to fix it. so now i know it's not just my own system. is it a known problem and might there be a way to fix it?

i was a fan of harvey until i started using shrink fit tool holders. their shank tolerances blow chunks. probably because they have numerous suppliers now and you don't know what you're really getting. for graphite i stick mainly with sp3, crystalumme, and rob jack. for metal, sgs, niagara, m.a. ford.

Millennium is based out of Chicago and they've got techs constantly all over the north American continent. We do have a Millenium facility nearby here in Rochester. I don't know where all the others are. They also service our Roku-Roku and the new Ingersoll 5 axis mill, and the Ingersoll sinker EDM we purchased from them. And the Mits wire and sinker EDMs of course also. Never had a problem getting service from them and we're in New York. I took our Mazak post which was purchased from our mastercam dealer and is based on the genric fanuc post and customized it to work on the Mitsubishi. I believe the generic Fanuc post would be pretty close sans maybe the high speed look ahead features which would be easy to get help with here.

we've got a couple mazaks and yes, in the electrical cabinets as well as, i'm pretty sure without getting up and looking, the servos, is mistsubishi hardware. however, the mitsubishi mv70 controls our mits mills are nothing like the matrix controls on the nexus's. they're user friendly enough to not be difficult or tedious to use, but they "feel" much more like a fanuc control than they do a mazak matrix. and, the mv70 control is embedded, there's no windows operating system sitting between the hardware and the control like there is on the mazak's.

Mitsubishi. http://www.millenniummachinery.com/products/milling-machines We've got two DV 1600's, 63" x 35" travel, and 1 DV 1000, 40" x 20" travel. The DV 1000 has a remarkably small foot print for a machine with it's travel. The Mitsubishi controls are great and they don't nickel and dime the chit out of you with options such as high speed look head and networking. The spindles are excellent, all three of ours have 15K CAT 40. They are well built, rigid, durable and dependable. Also Millenium is great to work with, don't have a single complaint about them. 1000 PSI Chip Blaster TSC cooling systems are available for them, won't buy another machine without it. In the next year, we'll be retiring the last of, a couple machines older than 10 years old, and replacing them with DV 1000's. Anything else you'd like to know?

exactly what i do for building molds / tooling with metric components.

offset the surfaces the radius of the sphere direction towards the center of the sphere. create splines / curves at the intersections of the offset surfaces. create a point at the intersection of the splines. that point will be the center of the sphere. i use that method frequently for accurately checking odd shapes with inspection balls. if there's a better way, i'm all ears.

edit: i was mobile when i wrote that and am able to think more clear at my workstation than i can when i'm stuffing a sammich and cookies in my face. simply renaming mclogr.exe will not work. mastercam will complain it can't find it and will not start. rename mclogr.exe to something else and copy another innocuous executable and rename it mclogr.exe in its place. i use \windows\system32\whoami.exe. sorry about any confusion.

in the root directory of the mastercam install, find mclogr.exe and rename the extension to something not executable. like .exe_ for example. the logger will not start then. have to do it after updates too, as another executable will get written by the installer. yeah, i'm from the school of if i don't use it it doesn't need to be running on my computer.

suggest not shock your management with the Ingersoll Eagle V9, it's close to 4x the price range you specified.

^^ +1 x2 air blast. the thermal shock from using coolant significantly reduces the life of carbide.