I had a request from a group of instructors to suggest a way to test 2 Mastercam files for evidence of file sharing. Ideally, a directory of files could be checked for identical database elements, or creation time. For those with a finger on the pulse of the database structure, perhaps you could tell me if anything like that would even be possible.

I had a request from a group of instructors to suggest a way to test 2 Mastercam files for evidence of file sharing. Ideally, a directory of files could be checked for identical database elements, or creation time. Does any one have a method they currently use?

For S&Giggles, I turned the Affinity on Mastercam.exe to CP1 only, and set the Priority to Realtime. when from 9:02 down to 8:35 Dell M65 notebook Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GHz 2 GB RAM @ 1.99 GHz

9:02 Dell M65 notebook Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GHz 2 GB RAM @ 1.99 GHz Windows XP I shut down Outlook, iTunes, and other memory hogs. In our benchmarks the M70 and M65 are pretty close. Some toolpaths - like Parallel seem to be faster on the M65. They have better graphics cards, so when the toolpath includes showing graphics during the calculations, they are faster on the M65, otherwise equivalent. Online Stopwatch - http://tools.arantius.com/stopwatch

If you are on a current version of Mpmaster, it's all set in the Machine Def, General Machine Parameters page.

I'd assume the format statement is for 2 dec. So it should be maxfrinv_m : 9999.99 to avoid the rounding.

CNC Software will confirm if Joint Venture is a licensed Mastercam user.

The verdict was that the 5000+ club don't care. If they want a custom title, I can do that upon request. Otherwise, they just continue to receive our immense gratitude.

Right now tool are defined according to standard shapes and parameters. With the intent to support Lathe, I believe they will move to write out the tool profile automatically so that the burden is not on the post writer. In that event, it's possible that custom tools would be supported.

You should send a Zip2Go into our support email address. We can see if there are errors in the post that are allowing for posting, but slowing you down.

[insert joke about "Thomson rod"]

This basically came up from someone who wanted to thank you guys who contribute. So how about this: Thanks!

Mazak falls under the scope our Mpmaster post: http://www.emastercam.com/posts/mpmaster/mpmasterx2.html

This is fun! Too much info really. Maybe they get to pick their own title at 5000. That's possible in this forum engine. Forum Council??

The suggestion was brought up to make a new Member category for 5000+ posts. Something like "Mastercam Addicts" . Like the idea? Any suggestions? Maybe throw some ideas down, and I'll do up a proper poll. In the past, there was some reaction to titles because the number of posts is not an endorsement of your Mastercam chops.

If you're having a specific issue, for instance with installation or operation, just drop your question in this thread.

Stock Mpmaster has a bunch roughed in: code: scomm_str, "DATE - ", *smonth, "-", *day$, "-", *year$, scomm_end, e$ # MON-DD-YYYY #scomm_str, "DATE - ", *year$, "/", *month$, "/", *day$, scomm_end, e$ # YYYY/MN/DD #scomm_str, "DATE - ", *day$, "/", *month$, "/", *year$, scomm_end, e$ # DD/MN/YYYY #scomm_str, "DATE - ", date$, scomm_end, e$ # DD-MM-YR scomm_str, "TIME - ", *hour, ":", *min, [if time$ < 12, " AM"], [if time$ >= 12, " PM"], scomm_end, e$ # 12 hour #scomm_str, "TIME - ", time$, scomm_end, e$ # 24 hour some other code of course tees that up code: hour = int(time$) min = int((time$ - hour)* 100) if hour > 12, hour = hour - 12 if hour = 0, hour = 12 year$ = year$ + 2000

Naw, it's just that I stand to get in trouble when I talk sales without studying first.

You need to share the type of target geometry you desire. If you want 'puffed up organic surfaces', Art is the ticket. If you want to engrave a logo with fixed depth, you just need engrave (v-cutter support), or just Rast2Vec (included with Engrave) which reads in bitmaps and traces the outlines. DISCLAIMER: Dave Thomson's opinions regarding products, product naming conventions, and product bundlings were established in the Precambrian era, could have been wrong at that point, and may likely be completely wrong now. [ 05-01-2007, 03:25 PM: Message edited by: Dave Thomson ]

If you guys all promise to buy stuff, we could make it happen here. Earlier experiments sort of flopped.

Sorry - I needed to borrow inside support for a bit. We're on it now. Thanks for the public shaming.

In my experience any radio silence is typically associated with an intensely busy lock-down period right before a release ships. In this case, there must certainly be a push for X2 MR1.

kota - please get in touch with us support @ inhousesolutions . com regarding your post issues.

Any Siemens post with the deltac and deltab variables should have been replaced with a modern engine post. Is this for a Correa?

I'll try to take the support for kota offline. I've asked that he contact our tech support office so that we can look into his post issues.