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

Try the Carmes Hardcut line They are left hand cutter (M04) To make a right hand thread you feed top down CDC is G42.. They work great in hard materials I believe Harvey makes tools like this now as well

I put in an enhancement request for this late last year. I referenced the Carmex threading wizard which outputs F/2 lead-in feedrates. My request was way too late for the 2024 development cycle though

The dynamic toolpaths in Mastercam are developed by Mastercam. Mastercam has 2 different sets of 5x toolpaths.. the legacy suite that has been in the software for 20 years and the ModuleWorks advanced 5X toolpaths. I'd guess that 75% of the CAM packages in the world use ModuleWorks for thier 5X toolpaths ModuleWorks also provides the internal engine for Machine SIm ModuleWorks 5X page Module Works Machine Sim

you guys are full of it!! there are dozens of people on this forum who can run rings around me and besides a 'grammer is only as good as his last program.. and that program sucked

Yes.. since your deliverables are both a CAM file and NC code you are pretty much restricted to what your customers are using.

What I do when testing a new release is start with fixture files or one off patches. If things don't go well I have not lost a lot of time and can do them over in a version I trust. If things go well with fixtures and stuff, I take a big project that is 80 to 85% complete and finish it in the new release. That way if things go south I've still got an 85% done file in a trusted version if I need it. Having said that, I think x24 is the best release since X9. Aside from the quirky CAD issues, the only issue I've had is the occasional crash when importing toolpaths. It's not common and I have been unable to replicate it for a bug report. At this point, I just save before an import then immediately after.

This is a comment from the official Mastercam forum concerning the Project command's preselection bug It depends on what kind of work you are doing. If you need a lot of stock models, do a lot of surfacing or use the ModuleWorks add-in for 3, 4 or 5X work I would strongly recommend you give x24 a try. X24 is far superior to x20 in all three of these categories.

and by the time you've got yourself trained, they will "fix" it and you'll have to untrain yourself

Welcome back !!! Does this work if you are not in the Translate to Plane function? Perhaps this is a auto cursor issue? When I'm using this function for a translation that is not a simple 90° move I build a "From" plane and draw a "From" point before using Translate to plane.

I went to my dealer's 2024 Rollout this week. They made a big deal about how much faster 2024 was compared to 2023. I ran the Benchmark file in both to test this. I have noticed 2024 is faster in some toolpaths, the Module Works 5X tool paths for example. 2024 is not faster running this benchmark file. On my work machine 2023 ran in 2:40 2024 ran in 2:41