You need to manually edit the defaults file: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\my mcamx7\MastercamSimulatorDefaults.xml

The attached vbs file will create duplicates of all 0.076 diameter arcs, with a new diameter of 0.075 Following is the code, if you wanna copy / paste: Dim objMyArc '#Obj : Arc parameters Dim objMyNewArc '#Obj : Arc parameters Dim blnEntity '#Bln : DB search blnEntity = StartDBSearch(mc_alive, mc_arctype) Do While blnEntity Set objMyArc = New McAr Set objMyNewArc = New McAr If GetArcData(GetEntityEptr, objMyArc) Then If (objMyArc.R = 0.038) Then With objMyNewArc .X = objMyArc.X .Y = objMyArc.Y .Z = objMyArc.Z .R = .0375 .SA = objMyArc.SA .SW = objMyArc.SW .View = objMyArc.View CreateArc objMyNewArc,mcCONSTRUCTION_COLOR_CURRENT, mcCONSTRUCTION_LEVEL_CURRENT End With End If End If blnEntity = NextDBSearch Loop

vbscript can't edit the existing entity (well perhaps if you jumped through enough hoops). It would relatively easy to create duplicate entities, with the revised diameter, if that would help.

Attached is a quick & dirty vb script. Oops, a little too quick, a little debugging required.

There is, but you'll have to invest in more sophisticated software.

Thank you, I can confirm that. Would be even nicer to be able to revert to the original selection order after playing with the sort options & deciding I didn't like the results.

You can sort by one of the predefined patterns, but not by the original selection order.

AFAIK, with the entities option, this is not possible. Select points (with sorting off) is the closest you're going to get.

No, we work over the network, gigabit, but there's always gonna be latency issues. Not sure how the server is configured, raid 5 with lower end HDD's I'd bet. File open time was just a quick & easy measurement. I'll play with toolpaths as time permits, they keep wanting actual work out of me though. Hopefully I can document enough savings so we can get current & not be wading through mud, as it seems with X5. As you said earlier about luxury... I may just be flogging myself here.

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Been playing with a 1.4GB file in X5 & X7 for the last hour. X5 takes 6 minutes to open it, X7 is at half that (3 minutes). Both versions take ~30 seconds to shade. In X5 I can't manipulate (rotate, etc.) the shaded model, in X7 it's just a bit sluggish but I can manipulate it with no issues. Haven't compared any toolpathing yet, hopefully I'll see similar improvements. I'm sure any further comments I have will be specific to X7, so I'll move over to the X7 thread at this point.

What / where is the benchmark file?

Win7x64, 12GB RAM, 3.2Ghz Xeon processor. X7 on XP = no go Edit: Quad core, Quadro 2K video.

After a little investigation, it turns out that we're actually current on maintenance. Somebody just felt it wasn't important to distribute the hasp code files. Migrating the previous configuration files now. It'll be interesting to see how X7 handles these (large) files. Unfortunately it'll be a LONG while before we ever implement a newer version. Maybe all the bugs will be worked out by then. ;-)

I could, but then I'd have to kill you. ;-) But seriously, my employer would frown on that, sorry.

You'll get no argument from me. For various internal reasons we're stuck at X5. Mostly because we're an old (+100 years) stodgy company, a lot of people here don't like change. If I wasn't here prodding them they'd probably still be running V9. I downloaded X7 to play with, turns out our maintenance expired last August. Oh well.

Heh, that cavity insert was over 300MB before I put any toolpath on it. I hate splitting stuff up, but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

~300MB files are pretty typical for us, nothing but the usual Mcam issues. Generally over 1GB & things start to get interesting. The cavity insert I recently finished ended up at 1.4GB for rough / semi and 1.2GB for finishing, I think the core was 2.1GB. Takes 10 minutes or so just to open the files. IIRC there were +60K surfaces in the cavity. Once open things are sluggish, but workable. I had to break my paths up into quadrants, otherwise I'd end up with "memory" errors while generating. Every few paths I'd restart Mcam, otherwise I'd end up with 0 byte NCI files. I never physically ran out of RAM, just seems to be general Mcam "quirkiness". UG handles the parts MUCH better, unfortunately we don't use manufacturing. Running X5, FWIW.