If you go to eapprentice they offer a one day free pass so you can check it out. Thought this feature was very cool. I used streaming teacher no complaints. How is Mastercam University? Anyone been there???

I still can't seem to access the ftp site. I get a 550 cwd alarm no such file or directory. Anybody up to the challenge!

Thanks for the info guys. Really appreciate the response and help. Even with some of the bumps going on on the other side still the best place to come and get the answers. To all who help and have helped many over the years THANK YOU!!!. Have a happy ho ho and a save new year

Our design dept just switched to V9 Solidworks X2 won't load it. I'm the only one with X3 right now, it does fine. Is there a patch to update X2 MR2 SP1 ??????

If you had live tooling on your lathe you could endmill it out if you are more comfortable with milling. ditto: +1 on Goldorak +1 on Columbo

Here is another thought. I make a lot of shaft/rotors for stm turbines. I bring the solidworks solid in, under your solids tab at the bottom of the column is solid layout this feature makes a 2-d drawing out of you solid. It also gives you the option of which view you would like. If you happen to pick 3view ansi you just pick and delete the views you do not want.

Another thing that causes mega files is the redo/undo buttons. If you set it to limit the redos to just a few(1 or 2) it does not save all the geometry for the redo to go back 100's of times. When I was new at M/C I would just pull up a file and delete the geometry, import the new geometry in to the file and use set up I had made This is where M/C was remembering all the old Geometry, so if I hit the redo button 500 times I could go back. Did not know that then but now mine is set at 2. No more mega files.

Yup yesterday I coodnut spell programmer. Today I rrrrr wun???????

Hey Jeff! "J" is the number of threads in one inch. This the same way Okuma does in in their OSP5000/OSP7000. From the Undisputed KING Of brain farts!!!! Terry

Is this Heaven??? No it's Iowa. Been my heaven all my life!

Should read either take it out or put a # in front of it>

Hey Ashan I fixed that problem by taking the following out of the post( Put# in front of) if speedrpm > maxss$, speedrpm = maxss$ The OOOOOOOOOO represent where it was under pspindle. pspindle #Spindle speed calculations for RPM [ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO if speedrpm < min_speed, speedrpm = min_speed ]

I'll give one vote for crazy^millman ideas.

I use it to programmed two large lathes and a large vtl. Also two Okumas (post is along way from being great on these. It works okay for me.But I have had to jump thru a lot of hoops and afro-americanize it some. I have a lot of ?'s also, Those will come in other posts stay tuned. Here is the first question. I am grooving wheels. To put it simply put a t-slot in the od of a 30" dia round part. I hook(machine) one side use the Mirror translate, adding new ops and geometry for the other side. Is Mastercam supposed to switch the lead in and outs and direction of chains automtically? It does not. The last system I used Cadra did this(of course it was apt based). Should it or not? If yes is the answer, what is the fix. If answer is no I will just file it under one more hoop! PS TOOLPATH EDITOR IS MY FRIEND!! Thanks Terry x2mr2sp1 Dresser-Rand

Thanks I was just curious.