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We used to buy Boxx.

They were always expensive, but after covid, they got ridiculously expensive.

My employer has bought 3 Cad/Cam machines from them

and I bought the machine in my siggy from them a few months ago

Now they offering are i9's overclocked to 6gig

What kind of monitor are you running

I have a Dell34" curved screen and it's native resolution is  3840 x 2160

Mastercam ran OK at that setting but the text was way too small for my ancient eyes

I'm running it at 2560x1440 and 100% Scale and it's fine.

Also, depending on what version you are running it may not play nice with 4K monitors 

I found this article in the Mastercam  Tech Exchange 

Article 17631

This article described the issue you are having and how to fix it

I tried pasting the article here, but that didn't go well

If someone tightens the locking screw with no tool installed, the holder is ruined.

This can also occur if it is tightened on an undersized tool.

Maybe high speed toolpaths should have 2 sets of tolerances.

One for the machining motion and a second for linking motion???

Here are a couple of youtube videos on filtering

How old is the machine??

Older Haas controls cannot handle a bunch of point to point code without choking.

Mastercam high speed toolpaths are going to output point to point code, especially in transition moves

no matter what settings you have on the filter page.

Personally I think a .0004 setting on the filter is way too tight for what you are doing.

I'd bump it up to .001 or .002 and see if the machine can handle the code better.

are the collisions happening on flat surfaces?

do you have micro lift enabled?

a file was posted here a couple of months ago with collisions using dynamic mill and a ball endmill

what was happening was that the ball endmill was leaving cusps on horizontal surfaces

and the endmill was rapiding through the crests of the cusps during backfeed motion

enabling microlift with a lift value higher than the cusps, eliminated this issue. 

5 minutes ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

Is the survey you're hearing about representative of people who still have a land-line and answer an unknown number's call?   Yes? 

I evaluated gwiz a few years ago

I never bought it and never unsubscribed from his email list

He sends out his survey to his email list annually..  I've never participated in that either.

1 minute ago, Newbeeee™ said:

Probossibly this!

I would also look to do a forced toolchange if you're in knarly mtl....purely from the point that you can then change inserts/tool, set tool length, move the table or head and even go get a coffee etc, and then when you hit the green button re-position and importantly height offset etc is all correctly recalled.

Toolinspection can be fine, but if reset is hit (depending upon the specific machine parameter configuration) it can be a real bad 10 seconds if G43H isn't called....

A properly edited post will handle calling up the work offset, tool length offset and spindle speed

You can also hard code a parking spot so the operator can check and change the inserts conveniently..

On production jobs, I'll use two identical tools with identical gage lengths.

Then the operator just changes the tool and hits go

Depending on it's age and origin, your post may need some work to support tool inspection.

7 minutes ago, SuperHoneyBadger said:

2024 is noticeably more coarse than 22

make sure the Precision slider is all the way to the right

a default install has it in the middle which yields very choppy results

I think the developers at the ivory tower spend more time listening to people teaching newbs

Mastercam and much less time listening to the folks who make a living using Mastercam.

I can see how having it it all tied together would streamline the teaching environment,

but in my case it's just one more thing that I have to develop work arounds  for.

They are issuing temp licenses for those who are down.

Quote

As we continue to resolve the technical issue related to Mastercam Licensing through our vendor, Mastercam has developed a solution to get impacted customers back online utilizing a temporary license that will expire November 15th 2023. Please follow the below instructions to activate your temporary license if you are experiencing issues:  

You can read the whole thing on Mastercam.com

Still down ... going on 48 hours now.

I'll bet they are getting some UGLY phone calls!

There are good and bad points to both methods.

If you forget your hasp at work, you have 2 options, drive back into town and get it

or don't work.

With a software license, you can VPN into your work machine, deactivate the license and reactivate it on your home machine.

You can also lose or damage a HASP.

I've never lost mine, but I misplaced it once. 

After an hour of frantic searching, I found in laying on the garage floor.

It had fallen out of my pocket while I was getting out my keys. My wife actually ran over it when she pulled into the garage,

It's a little bent, but it still works.  I don't carry my hasp in my pocket anymore. 

I renewed maintenance in August and was invited to change over to software licensing.

I declined.

They way I understand it, Mastercam will still run on a PC with an active license, you just can't move it to another machine.

and 

If you deactivated a license at work, planning to reactivate it at home, you won't be able to run Mastercam till

the servers are back up.

If you have a software license, do not deactivate it because you won't be able to turn it back on 

At this time, an ETA for service restoration is unknown.

From Masterca.com

Mastercam Licensing Server Outage – Updated 10/19/2023 2:20 PM EST
October 18, 2023 at 2:14 pm
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We are currently experiencing a technical issue with our Mastercam Licensing server and do not have an estimate on when this issue will be addressed. The host of our licensing services experienced a hardware failure in their data center. They are continuing to work on replacing the hardware and getting the systems back online.

This issue impacts new Mastercam software license activation/deactivation attempts.  All Mastercam licenses activated before this outage will continue to work. Do not deactivate any current licenses until the services are restored.

We will continue to update this message as we have additional information to share.

Thank you for your understanding.

Updated 10/19/2023 2:20 PM EST

Un check something, then recheck is it thinks the settings have changed

Then Click OK

That should launch a file overwrite yell

1 hour ago, mirek1017 said:

also ,how I can get this bare set up default for high  quality ?

drag the slider all the way to the right

The File/Options...  check the "Always use the 5-axis engine" button

Click OK, the select Yes to save a new default file

yes... this is a recognized issue... and a fix will be released ... soon 

try putting a G01 move prior to the G83 line

line this

N935 G0 G54 X21.5 Z3. C.52 T0202 M16
N940 G01 Z2.4679 F100.
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

It is possible that G0 is remaining active and cancelling G83

after one cycle is complete

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

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

5 hours ago, Jobnt said:

Usually we're on the order of 50,000 to 100,000 per product line.

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