look at the Arc page in the Control Definition Compare your 2022 Control Def to the 2023 Control def. also compare the tolerance page in System Config and the Filter page of your 2022 and 2023 machining operations

I briefly worked at a shop that built V8 racing engines from billet Their main programmer used a seat of 2.5X Gibbs running on an old Apple. We had several seats of Mastercam and used Port Expert for the 5X head machine, He absolutely refused to even look at it. He had a whole closet full of dead Apples and spent his weekends prowling the swap meets looking for Apple parts, He spent more time keeping his last Apple running than he did programming.

I started with Anicam 1.0 in the early 90's The system was obsolete and I bought it from Machining Time Savers for $300. It ran on an NEC workstation, 13" four color monitor, two 8" floppy drives and 64K of ram. One disc contained the executable, the second was storage. There was no mouse .. everything was driven by key board commands. The 8" floppies wore out and had to be replaced on a regular basis. Eventually I reached a point where 8" floppies were unobtainable, and I had to move on. I moved up to TekSoft and an IBMXT with a mouse... that was a huge deal at the time TekSoft turned into ProCad ** ProCad97 was a crash fest, 98 was worse so I purchased Mastercam V7 in 1998 I bought a seat of SolidWorks in 2000 and still have it on maintenance. I don't use it nearly as much as I used to and my skill level with SW is not what it used to be. In 2013 my employer purchased a seat of hyperMIll which I use for roughing impellers I still finish them in Mastercam though.

Occasionally.. it helps to keep tool lists and stock setups separate

I'll do this for simple parts that are going through several machines Our big parts are too big in file size and number of operations to do this

Yes..and frequently a different machine definition

My training has been 47 years at Hard Knocks U.

I use a separate Machine Group for each operation. Been doing it this way for years

Weird.. I've been using X2024 for months without seeing this. Nearly every file I do has thread milling. Could it have something to do with the origin of the tool holder model Mine are always on the top on the holder

We have a Predator DNC system here feeding about 50 machines from new state of the art machines to 50 year old antiques There are lots of problems and I'll bet it costs us a half million a year in downtime getting files to and from machines A lot of it is our fault and a some of it is Predators. I really don't like the software we have to use. I tried to get them to look at Cimco when we bought Predator, but the decision had already been made. I don't know if Cimco would be any better in this environment, but it worked well for me in some of the smaller places I've worked.

the entire files runs exactly as it should

The 2024 tool was acting weird so I opened the Too, Manager and elected Edit Tool Assembly Everything looked OK and the 2024 tool functioned correctly

I've been using it for production work since the Public Beta release No problems to date

I've got to agree with this I have my personal seat of Mastercam customized the way I like it and it's been this way for 20 years. If I sit down in front of a default install with no 3D mouse I cannot use it. You'd think I'd never seen or used Mastercam before

Pro Tip set overlap to Pi*D where D= finish Ø of the hole - the Ø of the tool you'll get a spring pass without the lead in/out

When I was in college in the mid 70's all my engineering classes (physics, chemistry, fluid mechanics etc etc) were in taught in metric. Our professors assured us that the US would be 100% metric by the early 80's at the latest. I guess they meant the 2080's, not the 1980's Once you get used to it, metric is a much simpler and more intuitive system to work with.

Now you can leave Tool Plane and Construction Plane alone and mass edit ONLY the WCS Before MC2024 you had to edit each operation individually and if you needed to do this with a file containing 3 or 400 operations, that was half a day's work. Now you can do it in 30 seconds

I don't think we've ever been able to mass edit ONLY the WCS

I've been using PC1 for some production work with no issues and the update to the formal release was uneventful For me the best new feature is the ability to use Edit Common Parameters to mass edit only the WCS in a group of toolpaths

The email announcing the release of MC 2024 just hit my Inbox Maintenance date is 05/31/23 · Version information: o Mastercam version number 26.0.7341.0. · A Maintenance date of 05/31/2023 or later is required to run this product. · This version will NOT time out. · This is a standalone version and can be installed with other Mastercam versions on your machine. Prior versions of Mastercam 2024 must be uninstalled before using this build. Uninstallation instructions can be found below. · What’s New and Resolved Issues can both be found after installation by clicking Start > Mastercam 2024. Please reference the What’s New file to learn about the new features in Mastercam 2024.

I see it now.. Funny they haven't sent out an email

It looks like the "Latest Release" is still MC2023 Beta Testers can download 2024 Production Canidate 1 now If there are no reported problems PC1 will become the formal release but it's not out yet. I was expecting a late May release, but that didn't happen.

They do not.. Once a version is in beta, it's pretty much set in stone.. Beta is for hunting bugs.

Public Beta is complete The current version is MC2024 PC1 (PC stands for production candidate) It is available to beta testers only. If the PC1 testing goes well, we will be seeing a formal public release to all users with valid maintenance.

I think he means this switch, but as far as I know there is no short cut in a stock install You could probably make a shortcut for it though