Mick Created the net hook for X7 for me awhile back I skipped x8 and x9 and installed 2017. I just copied the nethook into the 2017 folder from X7 and it worked seemlessly Thanks Mick for all your work on this

There is a good chance it is fixed in the next update click linky http://forum.mastercam.com/Topic18010.aspx

I use solids. I guess i can create a surface to use that method. Its not fun when you have 12 to 14 different flat levels to do this too. thanks for the tip

Mine just flickers for one second, no window pop ups.

Good Morning, I am up to date on updates (update 2 installed as soon as it was released Can someone try to leave , say, .003" on the Stock to leave on the drive floors and see if MC will not regen? This occurs for bullmill and ball cutters. Has anyone else notice this bug? thanks in advance Rick

Remember i cut graphite, peel mill is unnecessary and would turn it off if i could Area roughing does not do the outside of the component efficiently I suppose i could do two paths, limit the opticor to do the outside and area rough for the inside. either way Email is not an option, large file size I could share desktop and a phone call, if that works for you? thanks Ben

I wish i could control how it cuts the inside of inserts that I mount on a plate. The peel mill is very inefficient. I would prefer an area clearance type path on the inside of something like this. Like the outside cut....... .

you stll have to save/close/restart 3 or 4 times a day when the cache bogs up an the simplest of functions start getting confused or stop working Never had the tool crash problem, 2017 been working pretty stable for me accept for the above thing.

Do you have any Example files you could share or a video of what you are talking about?

Did it also fix the tool magically renaming itself to 'Standard Drill' etc., when editing values?

I hope thats not all they fixed. the cache still build up and you have to restart mastercam to get simple functions to work again like: -select solid, no entities show up selected and wont regen(restart MC fixes it) -move geometry to different level and nothing moves(restart MC fixes it) -back plot shows holder selected, verify shows big fat default holder and shows a gouge(restart MC fixes it) only been doing this behavior since the release of X...... there's a bunch more but you get the picture

All drills for sure. you can changed the name back to what you want after it switches to 'standard tool' just wore work

I had a problem with a file that i am working on in 2017. First i designed the 6 components in SpaceClaim. I had a windows error that when saving a .stp file that there were too many characters in the file name string. seen this many times and it is a widows problem they are aware of but wont fix(in win 7 anyways) the location on my customer data server has to many characters in all the folder name and in the name of the file i am saving(whether it is Spaceclaim or excel.) So normally i back space some characters until it saves, and im good to go. Well when i opened MC 2017 started importing the 6 step files i would get weird errors like .mcam file does not exist and it would crash. So i reopen the file and proceed until i eventually get all the .stp files in the .mcam and save. So this morning i create a boundary and make an area roughing path with a bull mill, hit go, and it crashes instantly. hmmmm, reselect machine definition and get a .cam does not exist error and crash. so i try importing the same operation from another file and regen, crash. So, also everytime i open the file and hit regen on the only path, it crashed immediately. (scratching head i drag the file to my desktop) I open the file and hit regen......BINGO, it regens I create another path....BINGO.... So I get IT manager to shorten the names of the folders, in the file string of folders, on the server, by about 20 characters. I open the file that keeps crashing and repeat what i did with the file on my desktop and VIOLA i completely finish everything WITHOUT one single CRASH Phew..... what a morning So i thought i would share that in case anyone ha seen the cannot save, name too long error in which any file being saved. (Excel, word, MC or what ever.) Regards Rick

Perfect Thank You

How do you drag a 2nd solid into 2017 so it 'merges' and does not start a new file? thanks in advance Rick

Gcode, we do that, plus the date, while training a programmer up to speed. We save all our temp files in MC. Each component has its own machine group and toolpath group Seeing the temp file allows us to know the temp was actually performed If it wasn't then it is still there to commence in-case someone closes the file without saving before it was competed. Also they can be deleted or not at any time.

They probably forgot to hit the return key in between Line and Parallel so it had the room for a larger icon. ex: Line Parallel instead of Line Parallel But now it cant be fixed until the next major release or two.

Thad, i see now, how you 'only' see those mastercam shorcuts, in the navigation pane when you are opening a file, in MC. i never noticed that before. As i only go to the one folder that has all my customer MC and design Data file, sortcuts, stored in individual sub folders with in the our company directory. cheers rick

see, any folder, even Empty ones.

Thad (you can also right click and remove any you dont use any more)

All 3 axis mold work, no 5 axis in my department MC pitfalls in that regard, for ex: Powermills 5 axis has been awesome for every release

See, X7 has been solid for me. X8 and 9 not as solid and nothing 'really new' so i stayed at X7.

I Imported my X7 RMB menu, right after install, therefore i had to add it once I found it.

Lets start a poll to see how long it takes for the first update to be released.