Try comping to the inside with a value of .001 or .002

I forgot to mention that this machine came from Xi Computers of San Clemente CA. I bought it with this ridiculous case that's twice the size of a normal case. Here at the office, I don't notice the noise my BOXX PC makes cause it's noisy in here all the time. At my home office, my old BOXX PC sounds like fighter jet spooling up for takeoff. I can't even tell this new Xi machine is running. NewEgg

Got my new PC this week I'm still putting it together but I ran the benchmark last night in 2024 2 minutes , 2 seconds The OS is Win11 Pro

I think lying about the tool's length of cut has a lot to do with this working. I'm completely baffled as to why it's making two passes though. It looks like it should run pretty smoothly You might get better results from the swarf toolpath if you lie about the tool's LOC. I guess you could lie about the tool's LOC in Mastercam, then use the correct tool definition in Vericut. You can also define the corner surfaces as feed zones and slow it down in the corners then speed it back up on the straightaways .

Yeah, but why.. I can't figure it our?????

I tried a different approach, parallel with tilt lines. The motion looks pretty good, but I can't figure out why it's making 2 passes. I also lied about the tool's length of cut. That helped alot. I think it would help with the swarf toolpath as well TEST.zip

Dumb question Why do you need a CHook? We've have the Translate to Origin command which id dead simple to use and works perfectly.

It really depends on the part It you have bosses on the OD of the part, you'll need to use Turn Profile to get an accurate representation of what that boss looks like on a spinning part We do a lot of parts that have airflow surfaces that used to be defined by point tables Now the customer just gives us a step file with no defining points, I've found Slice with Plane to be the best choice for these parts. It yields the same results as projecting a line onto the surfaces but eliminates all the preparatory steps needed for that approach.

I'm running Win11 on my home rig and I'm not seeing this

After analyzing the reported collisions, I realized that the toolpath was fast feeding through tiny cusps on horizontal surfaces. I left all the settings in your file unchanged and enabled Microlift with a setting of .5mm Now it fast feeds over the tiny cusps and the entire toolpath runs without reporting any collisions.

Have you allowed One Drive in infest your machine?

Do you have Admin rights for the Public Share folder? I've used 2024 Zip2GO several times with no issues.

Try playing with these settings Projected boundary smoothing can frequently fix retracts at the boundary of the toolpath Another trick is to use the comp settings to make the tool run a couple of thou" inside your boundary. You'll never notice it on the part, but it will often force the tool to stay down.

See the attached screen shot. You can set the version of parasolid you want to export there. Import is limited to the max version your seat of Mastercam supports. If you check the dropdown you will see the max version your seat of Mastacam can support for both import and export Every new release of Mastercam and SolidWorks, NX SpaceClaim etc support a newer version Mastercam 2024 supports import and export of parasailed versions up to 35 The only way to support a larger version of what you currently have is to update Mastercam to a newer release. If you are creating parasoilds in house you should set the export version in SolidWorks.NC etc to the max version supported by your seat of Mastercam

negative ('intel' :'Intel(R) HD Graphics ' : 2.1.0-Build 8.15.10.2900') I'm guessing a Windows update installed new graphics drivers and what used to barely work, doesn't work at all now

The dealer is right. The Migration Wizard only goes 3 rev's back. So If you are at MC2021 you can migrate to 2024 in one jump If you are at 2021 and want to migrate to 2025 you'll need to update your posts to 2024 and then again to 2025 I had an old dormant X9 post I needed to use in 2023 last year and that was a real PIA

I would go straight to 2024 Upgrading is a PIA ... if you are going to do it, go to the current version and save yourself from doing it once on and again later on. We are not supposed to dis our Mastercam dealers, but your dealer's attitude dumbfounds me. He wants to sell you maintenance, but discourages you from upgrading??? WTF

You need to change these setting in the Misc Reals This is a safety feature that rapid s the machine home with every index You post is defaulted to 0 on these two settings. You need to change these settings to 3 You can also change the default to be 0 so you don't have to change these settings all the time.

I used to buy high end Xeon work stations from the refurb store at Dell. This website has at least 3 benchmark threads going back about 15 years. My high $$$ Xeon workstations were getting smoked by basic $1k i7 PC's Mastercam, and almost all other Cad/Cam software likes clock speed, the faster the better. Spending big $$$ on Xeon workstations is a waste of money. Get a fast i9, 64g of ram, a solid state hard drive and the biggest Quadro video card you can afford and you are good to go. For the last 10 years me and my employer have been buying overclocked liquid cooled Boxx Apex3 machines. They were expensive but worth it. We've bought at least 10 of them over the years and they are all still in service and we've never had a problem with any of them. Since covid hit though, Boxx's pricing structure has changed from expensive to f'ng absurd and they played silly games the last time I called for a quote, Since then we've been buying from Xi Computers in California. We've purchased 2 from them and they have been solid machines at 60% the price of a Boxx. I'm in the process of buying a new machine to replace my 3 year old Boxx at home.

I think they will see a catastrophic drop in maintenance renewals if they implement this. I am currently responsible for 32 different milling posts and 21 lathe posts that reside on a network About 20% of them are Postability posts, but even so, the time and effort required to update posts from one release to the next is one of the things I most dislike about Mastercam. The idea that at some point I will have to pay someone to update all these posts so I can use MC2027 or whatever and that this cost will reoccur annually, does not bear thinking about. Add the stress involved trying to run a 120man machine shop with 50 new and unproven posts and even the most ardent Mastercam fanbio is going to blink. An additional issue is, there are 250K seats of Mastercam in use and God knows how many posts. There are not enough post developers on the planet to handle the migration process.

This is a very high quality mouse I bought one but had to send it back. It was too big for my hands. The mouse itself was really nice but I could not reach the customizable buttons without shifting my grip on the mouse,,,, which totally disrupts workflow.

It's a great mouse Really good left and right click buttons, enough customizable buttons for my needs and fitt s my hand well My only complaint is it takes about 30 seconds to reach full speed when starting the computer if you care connect via the LightSpeed wireless dongle. Once it's dialed up though it runs perfectly. My main customization is Left and Right click in the wheel Left = trim right = extend

are you using a left handed mouse?? We have a left handed guy here who was using a right hand mouse After a few years his wrist started hurting so much he was going to leave the trade. I talked him into buying an ergonomic left hand mouse. That was 10 years ago and he's still going strong. Personally, my left hand runs the Space Mouse, and my right runs a Logitech G502 LightSpeed I cannot imagine trying to run a mouse with my left hand

I used a trackball way back in the V8/V9 days, mainly because my workspace was so tiny there was no room to move a mouse around. Eventually I started having pain in my thumb and had to switch to a mouse I've thought about trying one again, but I'm not sure how that would work running 3 big monitors.

If you are hitting Edit in the Toolpath Manager you are editing the copy in that Mastercam file To edit the Control Definition permanently, access it via The Machine Tab in the Ribbon Hit Machine/Machine Definition/then Control definition. Make your desired edits and Save That will editing the permanent copy on your hard drive If you are new to this, you should save a copy as backup