We have finally decided to upgrade our X2 to X6. Probably due to the support drop on X2 but it'll be interesting to see what new features have been added through the 4 years of software development. I think being in the custom woodworking business the most significant feature added for me will be true shape nesting. Especially when you are nesting curved reception desk parts. Can't wait to get it.

Tried it yesterday. The ellipse frustum was a complete disaster. What you get as a flat surface from FlattenSurf.dll is not accurate. The good part is that the result is the same in Rhino and in Mastercam so no real need to change over to another software. Mastercam has the tool. There's also a small chance that I am wrong since both softwares returned the same result but 1-1/2" difference and different gaps on the top and bottom of the frustum kind of convinced me that I am no wrong. The cone frustum seems to be accurate as that could be confirmed easily with a math calculation. I gave up on that though as the radius if the product is too small and the flat surface can't bend around it. Instead I will machine everything out of solid. Hope that will help the next person. Cheers

I am cutting some parts today for my project. I will let you know how it works

Ohh that just made my day. I have an ellipse frustum to unroll and on top of that I learned one more function in Mastercam which I didn't know. Awesome dude. Thank you so much

In Mastercam X2 is there a way to drill in z increments. Basically if my final depth is 1" I want the drilling operation to reach that depth in increments on .25". Drill .25" then retract than go back and drill to .5" depth and so on till it reaches the final depth. The reason I want it to do that is to get rid of drilled material which will probably break the drill. Thank you

Thank you very much you kind sir. Are those accurate from your experience stand point? I just posted a 750K line code and 3 hours seem kind of little. Hmm, I guess I'm going to find out.

Hi Guys, we are using Mastercam X2 MR2 SP1, Router Pro (Level 3). Is there a way to estimate actual machine time from within the program. I have a big mold to do and I am thinking it'll take more than 8-9 hours. I don't want to have one of my guys stuck for too long and I don't want to leave the machine unattended. Any idea? Cheers

I agree. It was the distant 2007 and things looked a bit different. Plus I was a noob. I still am but not so much. Anyways I will get into solids one way or the other as molds are getting more and more present.

I don't think there's an easy way. The solid was created in Solidworks and I broke it into surfaces 'cause I can't machine solids. I will select them one by one and colour them differently.

I have 2500 surface on top of each other. It would be awesome if I could copy them to a new level but I don't want to select 1250 surfaces one by one.

Hi Guys, we are running X2 MR2 SP1. We have MC Router Pro (Level 3). No solids, only up to surfaces. I was wondering if there's a way to select surfaces that could be associated with machining from top T/C Plane. I have a mold that was sent to me as solid so when I changed everything to surface I ended up having way too many surfaces that I don't really need. They make calculation for tool paths too heavy and drawing navigation too slow. I want to basically delete surfaces that I don't need but it's hard when all is the same colour and on the same level. Any ideas?

Here's how I fixed it. format C:/ Good luck

We are still using X2. True shape nesting might be free with later versions but not with X2. I was hoping that you guys would know a program that can import and nest dxf so later I can import it in Mastercam and cut it.

Hi Guys, is there a free tool that can true shape nest 2D shapes? This seems to be the only thing in X2 that I really miss. Thanks

I think that you 1 year free maintenance (well may be not free but in the quote price) so if we like the quote from our reseller then we are going to get it. I believe that's what happened the first time with X2 as well. I wonder why they released such an unstable version. They have been pretty good with X2 and we will skip X3 so I don't know how it went there. Were there a lot of new features added to X4? Can you still run X2 and have X4 as well? If there are some bugs that need MU then at least I will not hold production.

Hi guys, we are considering getting X4 on two computers in our company. I am not really sure when it came out and how long you've had to evaluate it. We currently have the X2 and it's running great but as we are going to get a second seat then we will upgrade to the latest X4 as well. Are we still going to be able to use our old post files or that has to be changed? I have heard of some bugs as for any new program. They should't be anything serious, right?

Yes, its all legal now. I am trying to get a registry clean up tool and see where that woudl take me.

It's probably something in windows registry but I have no idea what exactly. Still looking for other solution other than formatting

I did called them last Friday. No call back received yet. So I am trying to solve it alone. Looked at the hasp95.vxd and hasp95DL.vxd. Those files are removed but I still get the error. Matt, you are right dude. But it's a new place for me and although the computer surely needs format I don't really want to do it. It's definitely a crack that was used on X2 and now X3 is affected by it. The funny thing is that X2 runs fine, the problem is in X3. Any other ideas?

Hi guys, just started at a new place and some smart guy here decided to use a cracked version of the software and now the left over files from the crack (probably somewhere in system) are creating a problem for X3 on start up. The X3 starts after I use the HaspX.exe and ask it to read the hasp but it won't start otherwise. It shows something like "error 2" massage. I called the guys from MC and they forward me to someone else and still no call returned. I hope that someone has gone through the same and could help me out here. Thank you

I tried to see if someone has posted anything about this but couldn't find anything close. Our company has MasterCam X2 Router Pro but we are missing the True Shape Nesting. Is this an option separate from the pro version or it should have been included in the purchase initially. I also contacted out software supplier. We'll see what they say. Thanks guys

Hi guys, I am pretty sure you have already discussed this issue before. Can you redirect me to that topic. Thank you

Hi guys, I am trying to figure out this one on my own. We have upgraded our machine to 4 axis and now we have a dual head 90 degree fixed aggregate. I have the post for mastercam and router definitions. I am trying to create a pocket a door from the side but I have no idea how to use the aggregate to do it? Any input will be appreciated. If I am posting in the wrong section of the forum let me know so that I switch. Thank you

Hi Terry, thank you for the fast reply. I need a couple more things. How to save my stock material thickness, lenght and width so that it's always diplayed as wire frame when I start mastercam and also how do I default save in "Tool Settings" to load without assigning tool number sequentially.

Hi guys, I am trying to save my defaults so that I dont have to start them up every time I use Mastercam. For example I would like to start with my default machine type, material (on screen display, thickness). My default operation bars and tool settings. I am sure there are more things that I cant really remember to mention right now but I am sure that the way to save them would be the same. The guy that set it up initially saved all that information for me but I will be changing my computer soon and need to know how to do it myself. I tried a few times and i failed miserably.