Doyleg, I see that approach, it will create the character but it does not let you use the Drafting Options tab. Under the "Create Letters" window I would like to be able to use the "Drafting Options" tab to be able to position all of the characters to the center of an object. It seems that option is only available when you choose a drafting font not when a MCX font is selected.

I am wondering where I can get more "stick" type fonts, similar to the 3rd example in the image below. Thanks Rich

Rickster, I have had similar problems with crashing when trying to regen. Try this.. In Settings, System Configuration, Toolpaths uncheck the "Enable Multi-threading"

What I noticed is it does not accept the new value unless you click elsewhere in the window, modify other values or click the blue button. I have this bug in my system, I went to another seat on the floor and it does not do it. ???? X4 MU1

Quote from an actual operator I work with "setup sheets? ahh I never look at those!"

Thad, My tools have that diameter difference inside of the saved ops, along with a majority of my custom tool libraries. quote: Are they the same tool number? You have duplicate tool checking on?Yes sometimes they will come in as the same tool number, and yes I have duplicate tool checking on?

Thad, quote: I even made one tool .437 and one .4375 to seperate them. MC still considers them duplicates. Did you change those diameters inside the "library tool" before adding it to your "part tool" I have tools in my libraries like the following: "1/2 FLAT SEMI" with a dia value of "0.5001" "1/2 FLAT FINISH" with dia value of "0.5000" That .0001 is enough to prevent them from being considered duplicate. Since I changed the diameters the only pop-ups I get are when tool numbers conflict. This eliminated roughly half of the problems I have. I also type in the tool number and description inside the comment box of every operation that I EXPORT to ops library, That way when I import I can go back and see if MC changed something on me. Using MASTERCAM X2 MR2

I have not tried this but there is a dialog box in you Machine Group Properties Tool Settings tab called "adjust feed on arc move" According to the help page: "Adjusts the current linear feed rate to fit arc geometry. The feed rate change occurs at the start point of the arc. the adjusted feed rate cannot exceed the linear feed rate and cannot fall below the minimum arc feed rate.

Opening the MCMILLRES.dll with res hack you will find the tree on the left side, If you go into Dialog folder, folder 131 it defines the basic (not high speed tp) dialog box. (H.S. Toolpath one is in MCcoreres.dll 10374 or 10344) inside the file for each dialog box there are numbers like "0,0,400,252" First number is where the object starts from the left, Second number is where it start from the top, Third number is how wide it is, Fourth is how tall it is. If you change the tool library window (3rd number of first line that starts with "control") you need to change all dialog boxes (1st numbers) to the right of the tool library window. I added 100 to all affected dialogs to widen the tool library window. Be sure to get the "ss_blackframes" also.

You can right click in op manager, choose "select" a window pops up click the arrow button by "geometry" it returns you to the screen, select the geometry you want,click the green "end selection button, the window comes back up with the number of ops using that geometry,click the green check mark and all ops in the op manager using that geometry are highlighted

There is a "cad file" button in the Toolpath/surface selection window that lets you select .stl files to machine, I believe that it will select all faces of the .stl, using some containments may help get the results you are looking for.

I have sent plenty of crash reports over the last few years only to find out that CNC software never received any of them. Wow what a waste of time filling in my email address each time. It seems our company's network blocks them. Our IT manager is currently working on finding solution.

Colin, Thanks for your interest! I just think by having the folders color coded, it would be easy to scan through the ops. Having the ability to assign "red" to all roughing "blue" all semi finishing etc, "green" for drilling etc. Something along those lines. I currently use folder and subfolders, and every operation has a comment to it. Most files I work with have close to 200 ops, and on average there are at least a few revisions before the job is shipped. I have to find the time to take a class at a local community college, And start tinkerin with the developers end. Just thought I would shoot this idea out there to see what kind of responses I would get. Thanks Rich

I would like to be able to change the colors of the folder icons.(operations under toolpath groups)To be able to quickly identify operations. I am interested to know if it exists or someone would be interested in writing it. Thanks, Rich

I use ghosting quite often, and I do not know of a way to not backplot or verify them, but I put my ghosted ops in a different toolpath group than the ops that I post. That way I just click on the toolpath group that I want to backplot and or verify, and select the toolpath group that needs to be posted.

I use transform toolpath "copy source ops" and "disable posting in selected source operations" all day long. I have had similar problems. One thing I do is place my source operations in one Toolpath group (see TP group below named SOURCE OPS) and my transform toolpath operations in a seperate toolpath group(POSTED THIS TP GROUP), when I go to post I only select the transform toolpath group. Seems to work for me! I have numerous times selected ops to transform and notice that they do not ghost, I just ignore them. Some sort of bug I think. Do not ghost them manually, it really screws things up.

quote: Analyze-Analyze/database-click on geo, select toolpaths box and it will put a green mark on each op that is tied to that geo. Love this feature. Very nice tip Mike! I have always used a right click in the "Operation Manager" choose "Select..." then the "select options" window comes up like below. Here you can use the cursor button to select geometry, or use one of the many other options. I use the "tool#" quite often.

Looks pretty promising quote: This Service Pack contains a number of updates and bug fixes including: Translator updates for SolidWorks 2008 and SolidEdge V20 compatibility. HST entry ramp / helix issues. Surface toolpath undercut problems. Several Backplot fixes. Many bugs that caused Mastercam X2 MR2 to crash

I just sent this one in. I upgraded to mr2, and noticed the menu options in the high speed radial toolpath changed. The transitions in radial toolpath should be like the raster toolpath transitions. Please see attached screen shots from mr1 and mr2. Screenshot from MR1 Screenshot from MR2 I was told it would be fixed Rich Weiler Engineering

I upgraded to MR2, and the stock color can be changed. Rich

It works fine for me also. I would do a search for that file in your c: drive using the "search" option in windows start menu. I searched for mine and found it, it is quite a large file close to 46 mb in MR2. The file shoould be in the directory that your screenshot specifies. Rich

Calnet42, Whenever I have had problems like this or others I have done the following: Rename your mcamx.config(located in C:McamX2-Mr2config)to something else (like xxxcam.config)Then restart mastercam, it should recreate a new .config file, with all out of the box default settings, then use mastercam's editor to compare the old config file to the new one and make the appropriate changes. Rich [ 10-18-2007, 05:24 PM: Message edited by: chipman ]

racerx Yes it seems his light setting are slightly different than mine. When I rotate the model in his computer it is white in some areas.

All the solids I work with are created in mastercam, I can change the color of the solid when out of verify mode, never a problem. But every solid that I select to verify is shown in white during the whole verify process. I have changed every color in the "set color" tab and have changed them in the config also. but it always is white. I tried it on the any other computer in the company and cannot change the color either. Funny thing is one computer shows grey stock! using X2 mr1 sp1 Rich

That works for all the other types of stock, but does not change the color of the solid when verifying??