For finish do a waterline down to -.51 .0002 tol. .008" step Then use the same semi fin cut/ .0002 tol and uncheck (expand inside to out) zero stock try and see Rick

John, it looks ok to me except I might get the path to start at the top to bottom and use .0003 tol; You are leaving .01 stock Is this the rough path?

quote: Have you a file that we can use to test with? is it on FTP site? Just for fun try humouring the system. Check your path tolerance, say its set at .0002, change it to .003 and see if the path will finish gererating. If it does you may have some issues with the surface tolerances in the (imported?)geometry. The author may have translated it out poorly Or odd surfaces that ware poorly constructed or degenerate on translation I found similar problems and fixed some geo and got lucky. Best of luck Rick

quote: He's not, that's his name, Mac ...LOL He might be on the night shift, 1st post 3:30 am RMS

I have a file 95 megs, rather simple part. I used .0005 tol. on all paths Being new to MC I thought it was rather large. I re-did it in my 'old' software to see how much smaller it would be using .0003 tol. on all paths. It was only 17 meg. Although i did not have any problems with the large MC file. My system is a: intel d945 gnt board Intel dual 3.2 GHz 4gig ram (win XP only uses 3 gig max for now) ASUS/nvidia g-force 6600 512 mb ddr2 128 bit video I would give it a shot for ya put it on ftp site Rick

quote: What format are you sending the file in ?? It keeps saying bad file. And whats with the no ext.?? Mr. Hardmill Sir. X2. The files had an ext when I attached them? I saved it as mc9 and sent them to Kannon. I'll send ya the original file that Chris (kunfused sent me) Cheers Rick

Soon you can get a gold fish for your avitar. his name was Bear, Great Dane (purebread)sp. 210 lbs (199 was slobber) left us at 8-1/2 years old, bout 8 months ago (above average 4 a dane) Feel free to call anytime for help on MC I know a little. I do what I can to help. Rick

Boy, it is an odd day when I am actually the first to get help in to one of our boys. 2 hours later...lol Rick

I understand, i do that once and a while The last 2 surfaces use flat boundary rather than trimming as we did Rick

email me your phone #

So did I hardmill..lol Rick

Kunfused I emailed to (tony) at your work it is done with a brief description Sorry it took so long had to help the rookie spot a mould Rick

can you email me a same some igs rick

Is this one of the files 7791341-bscrev.igs if so it opened fine for me. I could save them as an .mcx if you wish Rick (edit)Opps I was in wrong floder...LOL

Does any body realize Jon also talks to himself. He has 3 or 4 different sign in names on the other forums he frequents. He uses his other alias's to agree with himself. Bah, ha,ha,ha,ha!! Oh, sorry, I was tinking of somthing funnier. "multple internet personality disorder" But when you do it on purpose your a los... Now that is some funny stuff. RMS

Would the autosave get severly confused by having windowed viewing? Does it gets confused enough when having 2 or 3 separtate MC sesions open?

Yes, once you estabish a group of lvl names etc. Right click in the white area of the lvl manager Save named levels. You import tham the same way when opening a new .mcx file. You can edit them in Microsoft excel. and save as for easier convinience too. Rick

Started out on X2. I think I stick it out. RMS

quote: Well... a book that shows just how easy this can be done in SmartCAM and takes you step by step thru doing it is: SmartCAM Production Milling and Turning Jon.. just answer thier questions You don't need to have ppl read a book on Smartcam You're supposed to be an expert. Your making us Smartcam users sound like YOU. Dig down into the depths of your complex mind and tell them the how to's. If it is worth your efforts to bring this up in detail it should be fresh on your mind. Please don't tell us your bragging about something you've forgeten how to use. I remember it vividly and its been many years ago. I can answer anybody's inquiries about Smartcam if need be. Please don,t use this Forum, email my personal hotmail account. I have left it in Batch 7 @ weffriddles.com Jon is happy that he can move lines of toolpath as geometry. He obviously is a 2-D master nothing more. There really is no use for this in the 3-D world. RMS

Jon quote: Are you suggesting that *less grahpical toolpath editing power* in MasterCAM X² vs. SmartCAM is some how acceptable? Acceptable?.. you Moron, this is a Mastercam Forum for Mastercam users If you would do less cutting and pasting out of other Forum's, and do more reading and listening, you won't have to ask the same stupid questions over and over again. So you can edit an 'inefficient' toolpath Graphically. Yippie...! I did and was forced to liked it for years, untill my employer could afford a new software that continually improved. That did not need Graphical editing magical powers. A couple more softwares after that and now I use mastercam. Who know's maybe you'll invent and finance a better one and we'll all switch to that. If you don,t use Mastercam why are you comparing to it and all the others you bash in 'all' the Forum's you frequent. Go check out the off-topic thread about you. After a few posts no one even talks about you anymore. Don't forget to check out the links, everyone can now see what your all about. To answer your original question that started this topic, No. See ya RMS

look familiar ...Jon Smartcam Freeform Machining CRAPWARE I tried to read this whole thread but stopped in the mid of the 2nd page glanced through the rest. I used Smart for years, back in the archaic days up till it was bought out by UG or Solid edge then discontinued support and upgrades. Used Surfcam with and after that, fluent in both. Smartcam was and is crap. Graphical toolpath editing, if thats what you call it, is cool but has more limitations than expectaions. Labour intensive and 'inefficient', period. You can trim a Z lvl path to any profile in any gview but you can't tell it to rapid .1" to its next cut. If your cutting a cavity and have a rapid clear of.1 above the top of block, it feeds down to each lvl of cut from the clear height. Complete waste of time. When rechain a path it gouges on core block type paths because it chains a straight line to each cut. I could go on about its limitations but its not worth it. I cut very complex 3-d geo, and so far Mactercam is the cats a$$. The new highspeed paths Rock. Why edit a path when you can use software like Mastercam that does what you want fast. Lots of software out there to compare to but as I get to know and master MC, I love it. If you only ever used one software like smartcam, you may think it is great. Bottom line is it in the bottom of the pile. Can't even rotate in Freeform Machining. quote: Again you are sounding more like a pitch guy than a real person that uses software nailed it RMS [ 12-29-2006, 08:51 PM: Message edited by: Rickster ]

Would be nice to see a MC version of Moulds Plus built into MC. RMS

Merry Christmas ans a happy New Year! RMS

I just give it to my Q.A.Manager He always knows what to do.....mostly. If he finds it out of spec I give to my apprentice, then it become inspec...lol RMS

Unless I have a bug here: Dirty opps should only be recognized that something changed, path should always exist, always be postable, never turn to '0',k. I should not have to pick only the sufaces of each path to keep it clean. clean and diry paths co-exist especially if my model changes and only affects a few paths. The option to regen should never affect the path. Locking paths help some things..but Am I the only one affected by this? Or am I still too much of a Rookie? RMS