21 hours ago, Programinator said:

I had it set to never

Did you change it?

In File Explorer, click on View/Preview Pane. And then drag the preview pane to your desired size.

It's just a windows thing that sometimes resets.

I believe you can also just drag and drop if you have both files open at the same time. Or was that not implemented until v2019?

What do you have for your gap motion setting?

Big Bear chase?

Seriously, wtf kind of title and first post is this?

6 hours ago, Howard jones said:

I am looking for G76 program to cut the acme threads mentioned in the title. They are 1.5 inches long. Thanks

What have you tried so far that hasn't worked? 

17 hours ago, Kendo said:

then name a plane for each face and create a different drill operation for each face, with that plane selected as WCS and T-plane

Your WCS needs to be TOP. 

Tplane and Cplane are your named planes/user created planes.

On 1/24/2020 at 4:04 PM, 3DGee said:

I kept hearing that Nvidia quadro was the the way to go and I’m sure it works good but it’s very pricey . I ended up going with a AMD Radeon 7130WX 8gb  for my graphics card  , windows 10 pro 64bit , 32 gb of RAM , Intel Xeon 8 core processor 3.2 ghz with a turbo boost 5ghz .  I put all this in a Dell 7740 precision laptop . It works very well with mastercam and solid works .  I hope this was helpful to anyone trying to figure out what to buy .  You can put your own laptop together on www.dell.com . 

I'm not sure if it has changed, but Mastercam typically doesn't like AMD cards, just an FYI.

Thank you, I will give that a try!

Interesting, I can't find MI9 or Mi10 in my post, it stops at mi8.

And I usually keep the box checked that says "Automatically set to post values when posting" (just out of habit)

All the toolpath was, is a simple 2D contour ramp of a hole,but tilted at an angle using Top/usercreatedplane/usercreatedplane as my settings.

And the operator had the 3 jaw chuck scroll too far out so when it tilted and rotated the scroll hit the table and caused a servo error.

I just changed the angle range in the MachDef to 0/110 so it can't tilt in that direction any more. Not a huge deal I just wanted to find out why.

Thanks guys!

We have a Tsudakoma 3+2 5 axis table on our Okuma. The range is -30deg to 110deg.

Why does Mastercam prioritize the -30 deg over the 110deg? Meaning any move or cut that can be done within the -30 range it moves in that direction instead of just utilizing the 110 deg range.

I know it does, but I was under the impression that it doesn't do it efficiently.

I've had paths that take forever and a day to regen, and my stuff isn't near as complicated as a lot of people here.

I have no problem being wrong about this lol.

10 hours ago, Born to machine said:

What exacly do you mean by this statement?

Thanks

 

For example the i7 7700k has a clock speed of 4.2GHz, while the Ryzen has a 3.5GHz speed (approximate).

And since Mastercam doesn't utilize multiple cores all that well the fastest single core CPU will be your best option. At least until/if they ever fix that.

If we were doing video editing, 3D animation then Xeon and Ryzen would be far ahead.

I put one in my work computer here and the speed of file transfers is definitely very noticeable from just an SSD.

It's best for local files, so if you're doing a lot of transferring to and from a network you most likely won't see anything special.

As for the Ryzen 12c... I don't know how those compare to an Intel that has a really high clock speed. Mastercam likes clock speed. I do know that a high clock speed is faster than a Xeon in Mastercam (and about $1000 cheaper).

I thought CNC said on here a while back they were going to do a comparison when Ryzen first was released,but I don't think they gave the results or even tested it.

3 hours ago, SlaveCam said:

I skipped 2020 altogether because of all the negative feedback

You can't let random internet strangers dictate your decisions. 

No matter the product, there will ALWAYS be people that are unhappy with it.

Someone could cure all forms of cancer tomorrow and people will still post negative feedback on it for some reason or another.

It would be nice if we could remove that damn thing, I never use it. Ever.

What version of Windows? I wonder if that could be a problem.

Compatibility mode perhaps?

Wow digging up a thread that is over 16 years old. That's impressive.

16 hours ago, Cavi Mike said:

Ahh, the good ole' MC community - it's never the software, it's always the user. Right. Just stacks and stacks of excuses from you people why your software is sub-par.

Maybe try reading the very first reply, you know the one directly after your OP?

And in this case it IS the user.

22 hours ago, Aaron Eberhard - CNC Software said:

We replaced it because I was sick of accidentally creating a random point in space at some random Z depth and then having to go through three menus to undo that new random point you created.  How often have you made a drill cycle ALLLLLlllmmmosst on center of an arc, but not quite?    And even if you got it right, you still had to manage it in a different window with different rules.

 

Ahh if only it were quick and easy to delete a point that you selected. And yes it's still very much possible to select the non-center of an arc when you're going for the side of a solid hole. I've done it and scrapped a part because of that.

And when are we getting better window functionality for 2020? That tiny window is only "draggable" for like 3 more holes and doesn't remember size/position. You can't tell me this is the final version.

Yes the old way was FAR better, while I have adjusted to this way mostly, it was still much faster the old way as I made you guys quite aware of that on the official forum when the change was made. 

Ductile sucks because it has some serious stank to it when you machine it.

Other than that, it's gravy.

1 hour ago, Cavi Mike said:

 The hide/unhide doesn't show anything, says nothing is here.

Try Blank and Unblank.

Also in your config, do you have "Delete Duplicate Entities on File/Get" checked? Maybe these are duplicates?

I didn't realize it was cloud based, I assumed you could just download it onto your computer and enter a license code kinda like you do with Mastercam.

But then again it says cloud based right where I was looking. hah!

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CoroPlus® ToolPath software is a subscription-based software, hosted on a secure Sandvik Coromant cloud environment. The subscription period is 12 months. The license is user-specific and can be used on two working stations.

9 minutes ago, 5th Axis CGI said:

I believe Using Mastercam's Chook to do it. 

Yes there is a Chook for Mastercam,but they also have stand alone software to program it as well.

https://www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-us/products/coroplus-toolpath/Pages/primeturning.aspx?internal_camplink=Primeturning&internal_camplink_type=Hyperlink

On 12/21/2019 at 10:53 AM, Bill Craven said:

How did you program it, if not with Mastercam?

Just curious.

Sandvik has an off-line programming thingamajig.