Or maybe its becuz I didnt use any Gremlins...

Yeah thats it now I know everyone will come running....

Well then you might think it was fri.. No one gonna bite. I would think someone could get all kinds of reasons that I could use to back myself in this battle of Software. After all this is MX central isnt it. Give me somehting I can tell them thats not just from my mouth......

The subject says it all.... Say whatever you like..

Thanks DanQ . Could you elaborate on what makes it better than KeyCreator. If anything...

Can some people chime in with Pros and Cons of SW and or Keycreator.

Heres the story we have been doing all design work in KeyCreator for 30+ yrs all paper and solid models are in Key. We just used up a trial of SolidWorks and I believe its a better software expecially w MX being our only programming software I am pushing for SW however people are concerned about the conversions from Key to SW and I am concerned about not having to fix surfaces and have curves that go which ever direction they feel like when trying to drive tools. One of the ideas that came up was to keep Key and use this KeyMachinist that Kubotec has. I know nothing about and have no ground to debate on.

Has anyone used it and hows it compared to MX?

Any imput other than just answer to ? is welcome, Ideas, Rants, Raves.. Ill take it all....

Ok this seems to happen everytime i copy entities to another level and try to create curve on one edge. As soon as I click create curve that MCCore error pops up and bang gotta shut it down...

For the past week all my levels when being built on screen have been really slow I can see one surface at a time being regenerated and its not good. This error box has been poppping up on me 2 to 3 times daily and I have to reopen MX WTF can someone tell me why .............

Just to add - I am still figuring that for one reson or another their should be a way to complete this task by just copying the surface ops to get this accomplished. I could be wrong and have been in the past...

Murraymold I did change stock to leave - That has got me in the past..

Marting - I will give that one a try and report back..

Thank you to the both for you for your input...

After using a .500 Flat to rough using HST (Area Clearance) I am trying to come back and finish up the corners using a .250 Flat with copying the area clearance path and changing it to a waterline finish path with the parameters set to Rest Material roughing tool .500. Even if I change it to use the last operation. It still skips the corners that I have colored purple in the attached picture. Help is welcomed......

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn119/e...ng/RESTMILL.jpg

Tom if you want the values to stick you have to set them in the Control Definition Manager. To do this go to settings / control def / then on the tree on the left side click Operations Defaults and open the Machine group + sign and change your values..

Sounds good.....

Lanart - No the bottom side is to machined as the second side. the block has not been squared so machining the top to +.050 and milling say a pocket in it then flipping the part and maching the .050 off bringing the height to print and having square faces...

What do you do? - When setting up a origin say for machining the Top side of a part while the overall height is still +.050 and Z is set to bottom of vise or fixture do you put all toolpaths at Stock Z+.050 or just create the origin +.050 from actual Z0 and use the actual Z positions..

Thanks for all the replies. Is there a way to perhaps link the paper drawing in Sw to the actual solid file so that if anything is updated or changed it can also be updated on the corresponding file.

Jason B - I will also try your suggestion on Thurs morning. I might have more control with that route.

Thanks to both of you for your input...

Bradst - I did exactly that, to run some tests and with the Dxf file I was able to import and open the paper drawing with dims and notes witch is half the battle. As for the parasolid x_t and Step files they open correctly and all solids seem to be fine but I cant seem to dimension anything. What I am looking for is perhaps a way to import a file and have the dims on the paper print auto update to a change in the part file. Keep in mind that I have very little exp in SW only about 3 wks worth of playing and some tutorials.

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I am trying to import some Keycreator files into SW and wondering what the best file association would be to use. I want to have the most information possible come in to Sw with the file. ie - 2d drawings as well as solids notes and dims. Hopefully this is possible if there is to much involved in transfering all the Keycreator files than management might say forget it and not use SW. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.............

Yessurrr.... downloaded the lastest drivers from 3dconnexion and whala.. thanks for stopn by

Jparis - are you speaking of the Spacepilot drivers.. .

racerx and robert , I am using USB.. so we can rule that out.

sorry guys neither worked....... any more

I have just loaded SolidWorks2009 on my pc (the same one with MX2 on it) I can not get SolidWorks to recon my Space pilot any help....