Mark, Windoze 7 has an XP emulation mode. that should allow you to run V9.

Hi there, welcome to the forum. Here's what you do. Go to system configuration. Scroll down to toolpaths. Uncheck repaint toolpath. That should fix you up. Btw don't be shy about looking in help first, then do a search in this forum, many problems have been explored and discussed many times, and can get you going faster.

You know, I am a fan of Mastercam. However when people complain about unresolved bugs, they have a valid point. For example, if tip comp is left on for a boring bar you will most certainly crash. This was not a bug in V7, but has certainly been a bug since V9. I know this for a fact because I still have those two old dinosaurs on my computer. I have certainly mentioned this in the past. Could I be the only programmer out there still using boring bars, some of which cost thousands of dollars a piece. How many more years will it take before this is fixed?

BTW you can easily edit an x+ setup sheet in word.

If you are using radius style cutter comp check your entry rad value. It needs to be greater than 50%. I have my default set at 55% just in case. There is no restriction when using wear type cutter comp.

Lie. Create a 2" .079 rad endmill.

I don't know if there is a specification for this, but what I do is program the chamfer several thousandths larger than the major dia of the thread. It leaves a nice, burr free face.

Perhaps putting a switch into the post to generate a quote identifying which type of tip comp is being used would be a more sensible approach. I had to do this for tool comp when I started switching over from control comp to wear comp, because the setup guys and operators were confused.

I would create an edge curve from the model, and then use that curve directly to create the toolpath. In parameters, scroll down to axis control/ rotary axis substitution. There is more to it, but this should get you on the right path.

You know Sparty, if you are being literal about rounding over something like a punch and the radius isn't too large, just by a corner rounding tool of the right radius and knock it out with a simple contour toolpath.

Don't forget to turn off "infinite look ahead" on closed contours when you add geometry that will lie inside the tool path.

Yes, call your Haas guy for the details, but it is ROT ALM LMSW 1( 1=ON, 0 = OFF) ROT TRVL LIM 1 A max travel steps(DEFAULT IS 400,000) This is for an HRT 210 on our 4 axis VF4, I expect 5 axis rotaries, and perhaps newer Haas's could have different settings.

I open it in word, the only thing is that the tool icons will need to be re sized.

Just curious, has anyone done anything with the css support in the newest version of x+?

For this example stock diameter is constructed from the right view and the bore is constructed from the top view. from the right view construct a line at the angle of your chamfer from the intersection of the hole and the stock diameter. Trim it to the top of the stock. change to top view, construct the ellipse using the center of the bore, X edge of the bore, and the endpoint of the line which is oriented with the y axis.

Here are 2 ways to do it. If you do not have solids create surfaces and generate a spline at the intersection, use that to drive a chamfermill toolpath. Secondly I have one old clunker that does not have 3 axis simultaneous, so I create an ellipse, then use a chamfering tool large enough to get to the part from one Z depth. I am perhaps not explaining the ellipse very clearly, but it works like a charm.

I don't "hate the tree" but I have issues with it. First of all, I do not think that the process is linear enough. for example Planes should be near the top of the list, because if you don't have the planes set correctly, then everything else is wrong. I find myself going up and down the list.

You are programming chamfers more or less the way I used to back before V9. First, find out the effective flat of the spot drill that you are using. Modify a chamfer mill in the Mastercam tool library to show the same flat that the spot drill has, this way Mastercam can calculate the chamfer accurately, and verify will show an accurate chamfer as well. Then use the chamfer mill tool type ala cunder, but keep the tip offset small enough that the smallest corner radius of your geometry is that small, or larger, if you cannot make it that small, the simplest solution is to copy the contour geometry to another level, and trim those corners sharp. I personally don't use any ccomp for my 90 deg tools, it's just as easy to adjust the z offset, but that's a matter of preference. If you insist on using comp in control, remember that the inside corners either need to be sharp, or larger than the effective radius of the tool, or you will get alarms at the machine.

I recognize those disks. I was programming lathes with a calculator and a text editor on a 286 pc. This was despite the objections of the lathe programmer/supervisor who was a mean old sumbit who thought the sun rose and set with Smartcam. Anyway, I had seen a box with Mastercam on the side of it buried away with some old reference material. It had been bought along with the rest of a failed shop at auction. I thought what the heck, so I installed it, played around with it until I could make a working program with it and the rest is history. BTW I found the interface completely logical and easy to dope out. In sharp contrast to Smartcam which I found to completely bass ackwards after Mastercam.

I have 9.1 MR0304

We have several HASS verticals here, and they will sometime not run standard code, usually some hiccup in a contour, or a drill cycle, code that runs just fine on any other machine tool. I'd dig in and find the exact line or lines where you are getting the alarm and start from there.

It's right there in cut parameters.

Just a thought, if you rotated the points 45 deg, selected the points for your grid, and then rotated them back to their original positions you would force the order to what you wanted. You would probably have to turn OFF sorting before you re rotated the drill points.

I can live with the tree style menu, but it needs improvement. Planes should be higher in the menu tree, linking should be above cut parameters. It's probably a known bug, but if you have the planes set wrong, you have to accept the bogus linking depths, and then go back and reset them. There is no benefit to having tip comp in the tree instead of being in the drill parameters page. I could go on, but why. As far as inviting people who have issues to join the beta program, good luck, I've tried several times to no avail, and I remember past discussions where others have also expressed their inability to become beta testers, so it isn't just me.

How about tossing an undo button into the trim function bar. Then when something goes wrong, you won't have to back out of the function in order to undo. While you are at it put the undo button into ALL of the relevant toolbars.