Justin have you tried the c-hook squash?

What happens when a tap breaks and the machine still trys to add the screw in a lights out operation?

When freelancing how do you guarantee your work? Whathappens if you scrap have a mold, die, model etc.... Who's pocket does that come out of? That's my biggest fear about freelancing not that I doubt my work but there is always a chance of human error no one's perfect and if I scrap something early on in my business am I gonna be out of house and home.

I use auto save all the time but mastercam crashes on me while it is saving and that is when I lose my file.

Jay, What causes these files to become corrupt in that file there were only draft flat boundary and a swept surface just a basic geometry for a core out insert. If I was only as good at creating good files as I am at corrupt ones life would be a beautiful thing. I even have a file at cnc software right now.Inhouse thinks I found a bug in 8.1.1 but still no word from the top dogs yet.

Every once in a while when mastercam crashes on me while saving and then when I go back to try to retrieve the file I can usually see the bitmap but when I try to open it I get the message.. Incmpatable version numbers run Mc8 file converter Where is this converter and how do I get my surface back?

One thing I would like to know though is step over or tolerance in the parallel program gonna increase or decrease the actual messure of volume is there a standard I should be using?

Create a parrallel toolpath then post and save the nci file then ALT+C to bring up c-hooks and choose the volume c-hook and it will ask ya for your nci file after entered it will calculate volume for ya

Rob, Try removing block numbers and white spaces in your program also if ya use a lil looser tolerance ya will get less lines which will help with that problem

I created a revolved surface using the origin as as my axis of rotation now when I start trimming different parts of my revolved surface the center of my surfaces or changing from the origin does this number change because mastercam tries to refigure a new point for center of the trimmed surface not taken into acount for the part of the surface that has been removed or has this surface actually moved? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'll put my vote in on okuma

I know contour will work but I am cutting stock right off the block and when I get to the bottom of the stock it starts to tear from the block usually breaking inserts or getting wedged between the cutter and the part and smoking the cutter so I want to bump the last .125 off using a lacing technique

I am trying to radially cut a boss with walls that are parallel to my spindle but mcam won't give me a cutter path on the walls I also tried to use flowline but keep getting the surfaces don't follow a row which I have no idea what it means am I missing a parameter in my toolpath or how can I fix this row problem? Any help is always greatly appreciated as always and thanks in advance

Occasionally I get that error also but the corrupt entities are surfaces and on some occasions I could of mirrored a surface to create 2 identical ones then when I reopen the drawing one will be corrupt. I have already downloaded every 8.1.1 patch anyone know what causes this?

My comp came with ME and after about a month of crashes and errors even after upgrading to 516 megs of ram I partioned my drive and run all my cad software off 2000 Pro and haven't had a problem since