What control does that machine have ? This is a drilling cycle for one of out VTL's running a Fanuc 31i control G99 means return to Retract plane N935 G0 G54 X21.5 Z3. C.52 T0202 M16 N940 Z2.4679 <------ retract plane N945 G94 N950 G99 G83 Z2.2629 R0. F15. N955 X23. C124.62 N960 C232.62 N965 C358.62 N970 G80 N975 Z3. N980 G28 U0. W0. M05 N985 M16 N990 M0

dumb question.. have you tried moving or renaming the second post. The control deg can't link to it if it's not there

at this place 2 parts is a rarity 4 of the same part running at the same time is a once in a blue moon occasion. our regular parts have tool boxes that are supposed to contain all the tools needed to run that part. with the usual one off part, we just load the tools right out of the box and into the spindle loading them in the tool magazine is a waste of time

me neither. maybe it's something simple.... like ready only rights to the public share folders ?????

No You could save the geometry as a step file and take that back but the toolpaths are not backwards compatible. You best bet would be for both of you to download the Home Learning Edition from Mastercam.com HLE Download That way you'll both be on the same release and using the newest version.

When editing Machine or Control Definitions, I have always followed this routine. From the Ribbon Bar 1. Open the Machine Def and make required edits 2. From the Machine Def, open the Control Def and make required edits 3. Save the edited Control Def, then Save the edited Machine Def. I agree that you should be able to just open the Control Def and make required edits but it doesn't seem to work I started doing it per the steps shown above and have never had a problem.

Your Mastercam dealer is the best place to start There are 5X Haas and generic fanuc posts available for download on the Tech Exchange at Mastercam.com. There are also machine specific posts for sale there You can buy excellent posts from In House ( the owers of this website) and Postability

You can also chain the contour twice to get a spring pass

The last thing I do before going home for the day is reboot my machine.

BY default, System Config is set with no limits on the number of Undo events it stores or the file size of the undo cache. If you are creating a lot of geometry, the number of events and the undo cache can chew up a lot of RAM and buffer file space. Back in the early X days I used to get a lot of crashes when working on some types of files. Setting undo limits stopped these crashes. Now days my computers are more powerful and the software and OS are much better. I don't have these crashes and I've gotten lazy about setting limits. Try setting some limits here and see if it helps

Soldis take more horsepower than surfaces. I program 5X impellers ranging from Ø35" to Ø72" Historically I've always created the surfaces I need to drilve my toolpaths We were originally supplied with only IGES files containing points tables, lines and splines Recently our customer has gone to model based definitions with no points.... and at the same time Mastercam 2024 has gotten much better at solid chaining and using solid surfaces for driving 5X toolpaths Last month I tried programming an impeller using only the solid model. Chaining the curves and picking the solid surfaces was really easy. The toolpaths crunched quickly and yielded excellent motion. Hower, the more operations there were in my file, the slower toolpath parameter pages took to open. The more toolpaths I added, the slower it got, to the point it was taking 20 to 30 seconds to open a toolpath. By this time the file was about 350meg and I was at a standstill. I ended up going back about halfway through the file, creating surfaces from solids and reselecting those to get the file finished. It was a disappointing result as the workflow at the start was really nice and selecting my geometry directly from the solid model was a huge time saver.

If you are not using the Ribbon Access Keys, turn them off If you are using them... ???

Our Okuma 5X lathe (VTM-1200) didn't come with any CDC It was a $12K upgrade

what tool plane are you using for drilling we use Right for VTL's with our Postability posts.

If you want better machine sim and Verify performance, you need to upgrade the graphics card. My old home rig ran a Quadro 4000, a 12 year old design My work machine runs a Quadro RTX 4000 which is about 4 year old technology. My new home PC runs a Quadro RTX A4500, new last year. My new PC launches Machine Sim in 25% of the time it took my old home machine. and beats my work machine by 50% Vericut performance is excellent as well. If you're running large Verify and Machine Sim files, the RIO on a new video card is pretty short. After spending a month with my new RTX A4500, I'm regretting not spending the extra $$$ for an RTX A5000.

Solidworks Professional has a file compare utility that is very good but it's not much use if you don't have a seat.

Finishing up at his day job at Aerospace Deburring and Metal Finishing He'll be checking in for his key board warrior gig any minute.

it's 5 oclock somewhere

fissed for the sake of truth and accuracy

don't believe me??? just ask him... he'll fill you on all the details.. and don't you dare laugh because then you be a Nazi and he'll punch you in the face.

in oneyanks world we are all lowly burr bench guys in when standing in the shadows of his awesomeness

and he was 6ft 8, insanely handsome, women fell at his feet, he singlehandedly saved a fortune 500 company from ruin because he was so freakin' awesome and he loved punching Nazis in the face.

Done Done Done Do It ... LOL I still can't get that out of my head

I tried to crunch this but there are too many variables for anything more than a wild assed guess. I'm just counting Mastercam, and there was a decade of Anicam 1.0 thru 3.0 then TekSoft and Procad before Mastercam entered the scene. (2023-1998) x 52 weeks/year x 40 hrs/week = 52,000 x .8 fudge factor = 41,600 And then there are + fudge factors I didn't count 2007-2014 mandatory 12hour week days and 1/2 day Saturdays and the current voluntary unlimited OT which has been going on for over a year 50/60 hrs/ week in the office and 15 to 20 hours of DT at home on weekends. I think there have been no more that 3 or 4 days this year when I didn't have any seat time. and speaking of genius's who learn software in a week, I was once told that Boeing required 10K hours of seat time before they would accept an application for a CATIA programmer. At 40 hour weeks, that's about 5 years experience before they will even look at your resume.

I'm not going to waste anymore of my time helping this guy. He's not here for help, he's here to demonstrate his astounding genius to the dimwitted masses. However, I believe Mr Fish's area mill suggestion can be programmed to do exactly what El Magnifico is trying to achieve, and it can be done directly from a solid model without creating a single piece of wireframe.