Gots me to thinking to mehself; "Self, if I were to want to remove, oh, let's say (upon right clicking in the TP Manager) Lathe --> CAXIS completely from this menu, could I do this?" Made me wonder so I thots I would ask... can you add or remove standard items from the TP Manager menus?

Hey Guys, Thanks. I found the Xform Stretch the easiest for having so many lines, but I also tried the trim, add my value and click each. That works just as well, just slightly slower given the quantity of lines. Thanks again!

I have about 60 lines that I really dont feel like manually analyzing and extending by 3" so gots to me wondering, is there any way I can select them all and extend them all with one function? tks

Oh very good! Thank you Joe... I musta be blind!

I have not done any strickly MILL programming in about 2 years. I was wondering what happened, or if I am dreaming, to the REF Return in a MILL MD? At any rate, I am getting a post out of this G1 X-6.519 G0 Z2. G91 G28 Z0. G0 G90 B270. X3.7357 Y4.32 Z2. Z.81 G1 X-.7357 Specifically I am looking to change the G91 G28 Z0. to something like G0 Z10. (already in G90)... So I thot the Ref. Return would be be swell, but I cant seem to find it....? Edit: I just checked another office computer that still has X3 on it, and sure enough on the TP Paramaters page, first tab, it is there. Called Ref. Point, bottom right corner....

My question would be this, why would it play a part in the registry at all for mastercam if version 8 is being run? Correct me if I am wrong, but is that not a DOS based version, thus not binding to a 'windows' registry? Back in those days installs were easy cause there was no binding to stuff like that.... Not a helpful thot but a thot none the less O_o

Funny, this thread is sounding like the one in the beta forum lol Oh, and to be able to reorganize your levels/planes into an order that suits you better rather then have them stick... since we are gripping

I have 2 monitors. On my second monitor, with what relates to MC, I keep my TP manager and Level manager open at all times. I would love to be able to keep either the Plane/Name Selection window open or WCS Manager open as well. Currently it doesnt allow me to keep these open. Is there any way to allow this...currently?

Isnt that 'customer does not need to know' policy about everything? And in every company? Hell, they dont even tell us the supervisor is leaving until the day before his party..... O_o lol

I shared the same frusterations as Dave when I first started creating WCS planes, but over time, some experimentation, a little help from here, and now I *nearly* have it down to a science. Does it sometimes do some werid thing (ie, create extra planes I dont need), yes. Does what I am trying to accomplish work very well? Nearly flawlessly. I use this for my Mazak Integrex. I need to drill/mill holes or features that are not always at 0 degrees (horizontal). I do lots of work, sadly none 5 axis, at 30, 45, 90, 135 & 180. And lots in between. This means I have to create new planes to tell my milling head which orientation it has to be in, or I will never get it to move. Let alone backplot or verify correctly. Is the system perfect? No. Does it work well, imo, yes. Questions about it? Just ask. Speaking for myself, I am more then happy to help when possible and even create some examples if needed.

The bad thing about this thread is, having personally looked into it recently, the costs for another software package are equally as high as MC and most people who would be the ones signing the payment wouldnt go for it. Example being that you spend $xxxx on MC Lathe. You have it for a number of years, inc maint. Lets say after 5 years your total cost invested is $xxxx. You go to the boss and ask to drop what you have been wasting all your money in for the last 5 years cause you are fed up and its crap...what do you think his reply will be? "Uh huh. Ya sure, go away." I been here recently. The obvious thing about this example is that we arent working with numbers as small as this and it makes it very hard to justify switching. /sigh [ 02-26-2010, 10:30 AM: Message edited by: gcode ]

Created and want to add...

Is there anyway to have a solid layout keep the dimensions that exist on a solid? Currently whenever I create a solid layout it makes it correctly but strips it of the dimensions... tks

Why is it that when I select hole in, persay, a bolt circle, I get a very random selection of the points. Sometimes it starts where I start, sometimes its reverse, sometimes it starts on a random hole. Always does them all, but not in the order I select. Why?

Will do, thanks John!

I have a new fellow in the office trying to use Mastercam (on his account) on a variety of computers in the office here. The main users, myself included, can run Mastercam. When he tries he gets that error. Ideas?

How can this be done? Tks

JDC, I was cutting this on a lathe Machine Def as well and as I said, didnt see any issue. Since you say you are using the 'face contour' toolpath, I am just guessing that this is on the face of your part. I personally hate Mastercam's "CAxis" toolpaths. They dont seem to work very well, I have found. As a work around I use Mill/Contour instead. This works for me very well and I have never had the issue you speak of doing it this way. I also always use the 'RIGHT' TC Plane to do my face contours on our live tooling lathes and Integrex machines, again without any problems. If you want or are able you can send your file my way and I can try to help you out if possible, or send you and example of what it is that I am speaking of. HTH

I dont know if it will make a difference or not, but I would try drawing your Hex in the RIGHT plane and then contouring from there...

JDC, I drew up a quick hex, on the right plane and ISO view (not that the view is important). I selected Mill, Contour, tool, depth, all the normal stuff. And in Rotary Axis Control selected CAxis. It verifys & backplots correctly around the outside of the hex. And just from experience and using this, at least generally, it works perfectly. I am not sure where your problem would lie except to ask if you are milling it from the correct TC Plane?

Thanks Ron! I do want this in my integrex post because my Matrix control doesnt read my G270 properly without having a feedrate on it. The machine will actually auto-convert the feed rate to IPM if I dont specify a feed / rev. Its very strange. But I would also like to see this on my other posts. I will see if they will help me out with my Integrex and go from there. If I get a fix I will post that fix up here. Keep ya posted, but in the meantime I will use the MI idea

Hey all, I have been trying to put a feedrate on my G70 line and the output I get is the posts maximum set amount, in inches per minute. In this case F500. Where as I have the feed box set to .012"/rev. Post looks like this; code: pbld, n$, *scclgcode, *ng70s, *ng70e, *speed, *feed, e$ I have also tried pffr & pfr_l instead of *feed. Output comes as this G70 P11 Q14 S900 F500. where as it should be G70 P11 Q14 S900 F.012 Any ideas on how to fix this? TKs! [ 11-26-2009, 05:55 PM: Message edited by: Randy Morton @ StreamFlo Industries ]

I run an Integrex e500HSII. All be it I have a slightly larger chuck, 21" dia, I run parts up to 22.5" and they have been up to around 25" long. Lots and lots of weight, but our main spindle is rated for 13,000lbs. I dunno what yours would be rated for, call Mazak and find out. I would say go for it tho. Err on the side of caution for the facing rpm tho. That, imo, will be where it will walk or move if anywhere. Hard jaws are good as well, but if unavailable then use some good tuned steel (soft?) jaws. JM2C

Ya, the file(s) I am talking about is the one that has about 40 pdf detailing every aspect of the post. The only thing that I am really looking for is a breakdown on the CUTTYPE. They are all over the post and there is not a good definition of them. Anyone have this?

I was just curious if there is a newer copy of this set of files? The one I have has V9 tags all over it and I pondered if there was something newer..er? Tks!