A long time ago, someone had a Mastercam color palette for sale on eBay, that featured *orange*, as one of the main selling features. We got a kick out of that. Once Mastercam changed from the V7 color palette, we really cheered here for color #55, which was the first really orange color, and easy to remember. So, short answer, #55.

Excellent news - welcome back!

I'm pretty sure that the tool type is never output as a comment in Mpmaster. Only the rough in for predator and metacut use it. So something else is going on.

I'm glad the irony wasn't lost on you John!

The forum went down last week (Wednesday) when we exceeded our forum space allocation. Some member profiles were corrupted and lost. You'll need to re-register to get back in.

It's possible that if you install without Admin privileges, that the trial version with get upset. In this case, dgriffiths already has a licensed version at his company, and I've sent that to him.

Times *have* changed Jim! LOL. So I pruned posts in the Off Topic for pre-2006 as a start.

I'd like to free up some space on the server. I'm considering deleting old messages (which date back to 2002). May I?

Open your html.set and check #Root Mastercam location sroot "C:mcamx" Some versions contain that. (newer versions set that based on the location of mp.dll). It needs to match your install directory. You also need to have supporting files like C:mcamx2chookshtml_launch.exe and c:mcamx2setup*.gif If the setup sheet can't find the launcher app, nothing will pop up after creation.

You need to setup of block definition in your machine def with the drill tool sizes defined before you can use Block Drill.

You need to use the Block Drill toolpath, not the Drill toolpath.

Yes, we've done posts for Xilog.

Try to avoid toolpaths with Peck Drilling to start. Some quirks with the longhand drilling peckacel$ value make for insanely long code due to small peck increments that will the system appear to hang.

We're talking about college students. So these are college instructors... with big classes... possibly containing students who have more important things to do than learn. [ 06-28-2007, 10:40 PM: Message edited by: Dave Thomson ]

Check under the Tools button, then HTML Setup Sheet Template on this very site. Trial version download, works for Lathe, Mill/Turn.

It's going well Ron! Busy... 2 kids now - 2 & 4 (pretty much lagging a month behind Rekd's timing), and more responsibilities at In-House. I'm involved now across all departments. So I lurk a bit more than actively posting.

Maybe think about have the misc value set to 1 for all your operations. Make it your default. To universally lock on to G54, in psof change: code: sav_mi9 = mi9 sav_workofs = workofs to: code: sav_mi9 = 1 sav_workofs = 0 For the forced A, search for these lines in pheader: code: sav_rot_on_x = rot_on_x rot_on_x = 0 change to: code: sav_rot_on_x = rot_on_x rot_on_x = 1

quote: 1. Run the .exe file to install to your root Mastercam directory (e.g. C:Mcamx2). 2. Under Settings, Configuration, Toolpaths, Setup sheet program, select .SET File 3 Set all of your Control Definitions to use HTML.set as your Setup sheet template under the Files Control topic. You'll have to also set this in the active Control Definition for all existing MCX files. 4. Modify your Control Definitions to output parameter information such as 'stock left' by enabling the 'Write NC Operation information' check box under the NC parameter file area of the Files Control topic. To right, right click on your ops in Mastercam's Operations Manager, and select Setup sheet...

There some macro-based Fanuc programs being shared on the main forum. Final code, vs. something in Mastercam.

Thanks Zerren. To be honest, that's almost perfect. I could bounce that off the instructors right now for feedback. I suppose ideally you'd have a directory select option, and you'd compare each file against every other. For highly correlated files, the report could be an ASCII text file dump of the filename, each entity #, type, creation time/date stamp. Just as proof of the matching data to present to a student.

Link to the download on the FTP here: http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...t=024082#000009

I'm not sure that iThenticate would work on binary CAD/CAM files.

Cross-posted on the Instructor Forum: http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...ic;f=7;t=000321

Cross-posting on the Developer's Forum: http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...c;f=13;t=000443

The concern on comparing entity database numbers, colours, and levels is that in a cookbook geometry creation tutorial, we'd expect them to be the same. Is entity creation date/time part of the database? Yes, if something was written to dump relevant database info out into an ASCII file, we could simply file compare 2 ASCII files. Thanks for your thoughts Bryan.