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Thee Rickster ™

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  1. Thee Rickster ™
    Stock model had some issues in X8 and X9? seems fine in X7
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    i do the same in SP, except the move tool allows you not to have to remove the rads first. 9 times out of 10. It is nice that MC has started improving the solids functionality. Glad i jumped from X7 to 2017
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    maybe i am expecting it to do more that it was designed for i have not tried any thing from scratch , just modifying/editing a imported model
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    so you are not designing from scratch in model Prep? I dont use model prep, my issue is trying to use it as efficiently as SpaceClaim. so i can switch to using it exclusively. Opening and closing MC, hoping that it is at a point where i can redo something is very inefficient. thanks for the tips Ill keep trying to find a good use for it
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    On one action thats great but i Design on the fly custom R&D stuff , lots of it and sometimes i need to undo 12 things quickly whislt my design changes and evolves. In space claim you undo as far back as you like and quickly modify your design from that point to where you need it.
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    Really? this is my first experience using model prep Is model prep not meant to design in and just perform undo-able edits on imported solids? seems odd. Well i guess, i will not pursue custom designing components in MC. Thanks for the info
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    Good Morning ppl I used the push pull feature in model prep. I hit the undo in the quick access bar but nothing happens. How do you undo something in model prep? Thanks in advance Rick
  8. Thee Rickster ™
    Does any one think that it would me handy to rearrange the planes in the planes manager manually so that you can get custom WCS's in a row with associated planes that you make randomly (or create relative to)? Dragging them up and down like tool-paths in a group would be sweet
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    Has any noticed this behavior? I open mach def, edit the control def,save, save. i click in a tool group properties and hit files and the properties window does not show up Save MC, close MC, Open MC and it now works. Also with out changing the mach or control def, once you open the properties in a toolgroup and close it, you cant open it again until you , save, close, open?? new bug to work out me thinks..... very frustrating.
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    Yup, that be the one. Thanks Mick!
  11. Thee Rickster ™
    How do you turn off 'display arc center points' in 2017? Is it hidden in config, or did they move it out of config all together?
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    LOL....your right they should have called it OptiRick
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    One thing i like, that maybe has been in x8 and x9, is that it recognizes the solid now, you dont have to click something to tell mastercam there is a solid on the screen you just select it
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    phew.....good to know! Thanks
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    Yes, they removed opitcore, my most used tool path...... unless they renamed it? so far my testing in 2017 has been all 2-d
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    Hey Thad, Mick From CNC Software RE-created the View-fit c-hook to a net-hook for 2017. if interested, here it is. download the zip file attached, put it in a folder on your desktop, make sure they are not blocked(read only) then copy to c-hooks folder on C:programfiles/mastercam2017/chooks. . ViewFit_NETHook.zipViewFit_NETHook.zip . Rickstrap out
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    Mick, can you shoot me your email addy. I send you the files I cant find in the customize keyboard. . thanks in advance Rick
  18. Thee Rickster ™
    Thanks Mick, I'll check that tomorrow. If I can't figure it out,can I email you the two items and could you see if it indeed works on your end? Cheers
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    i'll bet
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    For x6 and x7 i was able to put a chook (viewfit) in the dll and chook folder and assign a keyboard shortcut. ctrl 1,2,3,4 for the 4 views. (Since the chook was made in X2 i have never used the alt 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 method) It doesnt appear that I can do that now, as it does not come up in the catagories like x7 Unless i just cant find the way to do it. Does anyone know how to do this? .
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    A video i watched on the other Matercam forum that they put on the main page to tell ppl some of the reasons for change, basically it was to get on board with Microsoft type interface for marketing. I got from the video that they were mostly interested in new users interests. Which only means that they have better dexterity then us old ppl to click a lot more and look through menus faster..... i also use the right 'menu click' for most of every thing I do
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    I agree, i have found that some things i needed fixed in x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 are finally working properly in 2017. I just wish they added steep/shallow to the change common parameters page. and a way to select all the geometry on the screen and apply it to several paths at once. (rather than drag and drop to each and every path, one at a time) These are severely time consuming when you do as many Engineering changes as i do. Once I get a few new molds down start to finish, i'll be alright....
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    i can get used of the new way, its just less convienient alt - f9 for the win! Thanks Ron
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    Does any one now how to do this in 2017?? . thanks in advance rick
  25. Thee Rickster ™
    No Sir. the WCS button on the right(in X7) would open a menu. . cheers

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