practicality wise it's probably low on the list of things most people want out of cad/cam - but I've heard of worse suggestions

not everyone is using 500mb models either. most people we have using mastercam have 3-5mb models, so a viewer on a tablet isn't the worst idea. simple viewing / backplot would be alright no? People have also said that laptops would never be powerful enough to run cad/cam ...

Or at least turn that caps off and give your eyes a break!

I didn't know that! Loss to the Mastercam community, but a gain to the space community. Rich is great.

yeah or failing that even just a hot key you can hold to activate solid selection. ie: shift to just select wireframe/chains. Anytime I'm training people forget about it, or get confused as to why they're clicking it. I'm sure that's going to be change din the future

The activate solid selection button needs to go

it sure does. Many people who use the paths don't go through the collision options much either. The 'retract tool' drop-down especially. People assume it's going to be a rapid move feature but instead it offers a ton of options as to what to do when the tool collides. I forget about it all the time

it's possible depending on how you define your geometry. You can have it calculate and get the points on the undercut and then lock the tool to 3 axis motion. That said, stock recognition in multiaxis still waterfalls in the direction of the plane it's made in so doesn't work for all undercut situations

- Area limits without drawing containment boundary - Force tool motion to comp to the center of the tool, or the rads or both - Control what type of motion is done when a collision is found (move in ____ direction, retract, interpolate surface) - Handles gaps very well

Does your machine support subprograms? Do you have DNC already?

Check the planes, the boundary, the size of your tool ... it means that it can't fit the tool into some area or project the tool correctly. Usually for me it's that I'm operating using a different plane and there's no geometry in that plane

it's just policy with regard to new features. If people want to know, they can apply for the beta program - but there hasn't been anything (that I know of) saying I couldn't say "a lot has been addressed fix-wise" TK, sure

hi there - the STL is just the geometry, you need to have an XML file in that folder with the same name (KR200-1) and then you need that XML file to refer to the STL files. Also, if the robot is just one STL it won't move correctly. If you look in other Robot folders there are many STL files. But the KR200 is already configured in Robotmaster, have you asked your reseller for the setup files?

Been using MU1 Beta - can't speak to specifics, but the amount done in the back end is very substantial and it has been running great for me

I'm an okay programmer because I get to do a lot of 5-axis stuff all the time and have had to pull toolpaths inside and out and make them do a lot of things. But more often than I would like to admit I do something aerospatially stupid like running a cutter backwards etc. I strongly believe than any engineering program needs a 2-yr real world mfg-ing co-op/apprenticeship component. I thought I remembered the UK doing it this way. I've learned a lot working on-site with people, so I've come a long way but the world could do without completely green designers/programmers fumbling their way through things, and I could have dealt with not being embarssed..as much!

It all depends on what you're using for the tool axis. If you're using Surface, and your wireframe is right on the edge of the surface it's trying to stay normal to, try extending the surface, or untrimming it. Given your pattern is wireframe, untrimming the surface is okay. The surface edge option for Cut Pattern can work 'okay' unless you have multiple surfaces and then it's really obnoxious to get everything moving in the same direction / picking the right edges.

I hope it is!

either slightly worse, or very worse. They have much more flexibility but at a cost of not being as accurate. That said they are very repeatable - given their usual role, they have to be dependable even if the initial programming time costs are high. CNC's have the benefit of being usually specific to some task: cutting wood, or cutting metal or grinding or .. etc. and sometimes have restrictions placed on their motion (3-axis) in order to increase rigidity, decrease complexity etc. whereas robots can weld, spray, polish, cut etc.

yep

I agree, how about I pin this one? Does a good job of explaining the issue someone sees, and how the feature is to be used?

tolerance + Angle step. I think 'Angle Step' should be renamed 'Angle Tolerance' because when you explain it to someone they inevitably say "So it's like an angle tolerance?"

One bonus robots have is they're damned indestructible. maintenance? hahahahahahahahaha

if you go with a robot Starry said he would program it for you pro-bono

our virus-protection software wasn't updated for 8.1 and someone updated and.. haha. yeah

if you're tired of things being too easy get a robot