My home machine ran the Benchmark in 3 min 38 seconds Its a Boxx Apex 3 running a i9-9900K liquid cooled processor, OC'd to 5 GHZ with 96g of ram OS is Win 11 Pro My work rig is about 18 months newer than my home machine it's i9-11900 chip has a Passmark Score of 25462 My home rig with it's i9-9900K has a PassMark score of 18.469 That is too much difference to make any judgement on whether Mastercam runs faster or slower on Win11 vrs Win 10

Do you mean High Priority on the Multithreading page?

I updated my home PC to Win11 a couple of weeks ago I have not had any troubles with Mastercam or any of my other CAD/CAM software I'll run the benchmark file on it and see if there is any difference between Win10 and 11

Likewise! Best wishes on your escape from Crazy Town.

This is my work machine Win 10 Its a Boxx Apex 3 i9-11900K liquid cooled and OC'd to 5ghz and 128 GB of ram 2 minutes 41 seconds Make sure you shut MC down and empty your Mastercam TEMP folder between runs. The regen files are stored there and you will better times on subsequent runs because Mastercam doesn't have to reproduce them Also make sure the tolerance is set to .0001 in all the operations

I just make a dummy toolpath that drills a hole in the sky and delete it after ai post. It's a lame solution for a problem that should have been fixed a decade ago, but it works

Once you've enabled Toolpath Display in System Config, this switch toogles selected toolpaths off and on When they are selected, the folder icons in the toolpath manager with be a dark yellow, when not selected they will be a pale yellow

OK.. I just did an experiment. With my purple USB Mastercam Hasp plugged into my machine, I launched Code Expert from the Start menu The launch was instantaneous. Then I pulled the hasp forcing my pc to use my employer's nethasp. Code Expert launch was 5 to 6 seconds. I inserted the IP of our nethasp into the 2024 nethasp.ini file and launched Code Expert again There was no change. I reinstalled my personal USB Hasp and Code Expert was back to an instantaneous launch.

I'm thinking this delay is caused by a licensing issue, but that is only a guess. I have exactly zero experience with Code Expert . I don't have any machines running dual channels and have never even tried it. Around here it is 2023 Cimco Edit, for the win

I don't think so Maybe make intuitive decisions on which levels to turn on so you are nor searching everything try making sure shading is off before you turn everything on

Turn all levels on In the Toolpath Manager, enable "Only display associative geometry" The icon looks like a small red square Select a toolpath, Everything should disappear except the geometry used in that toolpath Analyze the visible geometry

better?? not even close cheaper??? yes The price of a GeForce RTX 3X won't even cover the sales tax on a Quadro P6000

What kind of graphics card are you running?

They've added an option to Dynamic Milling and the Facing toolpath in MC2024 It makes a really efficient and easy to create toolpath. I tried it last week and it's pretty sweet. Now they just need to add an arc on/off option to smoothly retract from a finished surface

That add-on has ben available for some time,... and the are proud of it If you register on the Sandvik site you can download models for free and use their tool assembly capabilities for free as well. It took me a while to figure out the web based tools assembly utility, but it is worth the trouble if you are doing a lot of work with Capto assemblies. It will not let you make an incorrect assembly. This is very helpful building Capto based lathe tools as it's easy to screw up and order a left hand cutting tool and a right hand adapter. The difference between free and paid is the ability to import directly into a Mastercam library. I just down load the individual components as stp file and use them to make holders. Then I assemble the holders and tools into assemblies with the Edit Assembly feature in the part file Tool Manager. The log in screen is new. I was using this last week and the Master and Autodesk options were not there

There are a couple of ways this can happen but if it's been running for a couple of years, I'm guessing the seat that won't run now was a 1 or 2 year subscription and it's time is up

Unshading (Alt S) will reduce the dominance solids while trimming and the wireframe only filter works as well. I normally keep solids and wireframe on separate levels and turn the solids level off if I have serious trimming to do.

You're going to need to call you dealer for that

well yes... that could get very exiting when pocket roughing op #2242 gets quietly deleted and your finish endmill dives into solid stock to finish the pocket.

We've got a half dozen Postability Machine Sim's here. I've updated several of them to MC2024 with no issues. I asked Postability about a 2024 Post enabler install and was told it is not necessary. All of the Machine Sims and Postability posts I've updated so far work properly. That doesn't necessarily mean your machine sim does not need a Post Enabler but I would certainly try updating to 2024

That's how you grow your user base In 1997 I had decided CAD/CAM would be the future and I needed to learn. There was no internet to do research with and I was using TekSoft/Procad because that's what our local machine dealer sold me. I had never heard of Mastercam. The local community college was offering a 2 semester Mastercam program (v5) so I took it. I think TekSoft/Procad was a better product in 1995 but Mastercam was the only class I could take so I signed up.

Why did you let TS go?? That was a big investment which will eventually die on the vine. A previous manager let our hyperMIll seat go in 2017 and it continued to run OK. We recently got a massive package of new parts that I use hyperMill to rough and I convinced my current manager to get back on maintenance. Open Mind made us a really good deal and it was well worth the expense as the software has improved a lot over the last 6 releases.

As MC CAD has added more features, I use SW less and less. I find the Translate by Planes and Translate to Origin especially useful. We have a skilled Catia designer now who provides us with CAM ready Catia models, so I rarely do full on modeling anymore. My SW skills are suffering as a result.

save the fixed holder as wireframe to a level use that wire to revolve a solid and save it as a step file open a busted holder file and redefine it by picking the new step file once you have the step file made, it shouldn't take more that a minute to repair one of the misbehaving holders

I am surprised to find that X4 is still available for download Go to the Downloads page at Mastercam.com then go to the Legacy page Of course you will need a valid Mastercam license to run it