Not having a lathe seat I don't know how I would set the WCS to give me D+Z view, anyone out there care to elaborate?

Do a search on "inverse feed" that should point you in the right direction.

On finish Id"s I set the lead in/out to 120/180 deg., you can chain a point in the center of the hole, NOT use entry line and enter a rad just a little smaller than the hole size, set the use entry point in the lead in/out and Mastercam will calculate the line length for you. For external features where I am getting unacceptable in/out marks, I either create small(.003) rads on the corners, and lead in/ out from there, or if the contour dictates, I will create entry/exit arcs at the midpoint of a rad that are larger the the rad, chain those arcs as part of mt toolpath then turn infinate lookahead to OFF. This make a nice gentle entry exit for the tool and will practically eliminate any marking. I do that only on an as needed basis.

It seems that G98 is your baby, checking the clearance field will turn it on in a drill cycle.

G76 may use an optional incremental shift value,IE I, J . Like John says, break out the book.

I certainly can sympathize with your problems switching over from V9 to X, I dug into it with the first release and it was like learning a new language, total PIA. I still miss a couple of V9 features that are not nearly as eloquently accomplished in X, but that being said, I am a LOT more productive now than I ever was. IMHO hanging out in this forum is probably the best training aid you can use, I have gotten far more than I have given, and I just want to take this opportunity to thank Emastercam, and all the generous gurus who hang out here and help us frustrated programmers.

3 mini's, 1 vf3, 1 vf4

We have the same problem with tools sticking. It's because the coolant serves as the spindle chiller, it can make running roughing tools dry a bit problematic. But my guys love the control, and excepting tool carousel issues they are very dependable. The vf3 is 12 years old now, the table is a bit sway backed now but it is a work horse, 2 shifts, any material, good parts, nok wood.

I would go into my config and see if the mcam is looking into the correct chooks folder, if you did an upgrade/migrate instead of a side by side install mastercam will be looking for the old location.

Alt + C is the keyboard shortcut for chooks.

Chooks, Regenerate display, screen stats are in one of the stock ribbons, just turn it on.

I can't make it display the icon in X2 Mr2, so I just went into system config, under start/exit where Add In Programs is, is a field for default. browse for the x+ directory, leave the start up and exit check marks unchecked, and then save. Then when you want to use x+ just click on the chooks icon and the x+ directory will pop up, voil'ahh.

You could comment in something like this to your post.

pbld, n$, sgabsinc, pwcs, pfxout, pfyout, pfzout, "G91A-2.", e$ COMMENT IS IN QUOTES

"G90", pcout, e$

Above is an example only

If you were doing position and mill this would work, but if would be a disaster for simultaneous milling.

You could probably do this as a manual entry(as code) also.

Hope this helps.

Have you tried adjusting the indexer? Mount a chuck, or rectangular fixture onto the spindle, there is a black cap on the side opposite the motor, take off the cap, oil will seep out while you are making the adjustment, just refill when done. I think there are , 12 or 16 holes, four of which line up with the bolt holes in the cap, rotate the ring one hole at a time and use an indicator to monitor how much backlash is in the worm gear, 4 to 5 tenths is pretty good. There isn't a lot of adjustment but you should certainly be able to improve what you have.

#10 drive geometry and solids, #11 for edges I intend to chamfer, #14 points, #12 curves, and whatever else that serves my needs for more complex parts.

I don't know if you are doing a simple contour toolpath, a pocket, or a surface driven toolpath, so This may not be of any use. If you chain a point, you can turn on use entry point/use exit point, and/or you can also adjust the entry/exit feedrate to a high value. This might allow you to avoid the crash.

Perhaps someone should mention what the penalties are for getting caught with illegal copies of Mastercam.

Works both ways for me.

I just tried that same thing on my system and it works like a charm.

My two cents in this whole process is when you have surface toolpaths in a V7 or earlier file. With the lack of associativity that V7 had you cannot regenerate that toolpath to be able to backplot it, know what drive and check surfaces you used etc. Being able to update that file is of limited use in those cases. In fact I still have V7 loaded on my system for that instance, but V7 will probably become non functional when we eventually abandon XP so I will migrate those semi useless files at some point.

It's the un-docked ops manager. just re-dock the thing and your problem will go away.

BTW this is Backplot bug # 30781.

When migrating your custom settings with a side by side, be aware that the paths will all still be pointing to the old install directories.

I think that a migration utility could and should take care of these potentially critical little items.

Yup.

The backplot dialogue box behaves the same way for me, I can resize it but it always opens with the upper left hand corner in the same place, over the play button of the backplot ribbon bar.

I also noticed that with the ops manager undocked

passing a cursor over it when the chain manager is superimposed over the ops manager will cause the ops manager to pop to the top.

I can think of a work around that may or may not do what you need because a window will only select entities that are completely inside the window. use change levels,copy, window. Then analyze the entities in the target level.