Mine was doing the same thing. Thanks for the work around

On 5/1/2019 at 2:20 PM, motor-vater said:

so I got it to work, strangly it has something to do with my 3rd screen. I keep my dialog boxes/managers on the 3rd screen to give me more space on my main screen. Oddly enough as soon as I re-docked my managers it works.... Kinda crappy but I'll take it.... 

lol. no worries  I brain fart all the time. I'm guessing everyone else does too

I don't know if you can click on a point in the chain to select it. I usually click inside the "Point" field then use my mouse wheel to scroll through the points until it gets to a point where I want to make a feedrate change, then click change at point

Well, anyone who states ATi is the answer is suspect to begin with  

Who said ATI is the answer?

Edited:

 

Nope if I remember correctly you tired very low end cards and thought they were high end. K600 is the very very low end of Quardo Cards. Had you got K4000 or above then you would be correct in your comments. Edit: If it was you that put up the reply in a thread saying your company got the K600 cards and replaced them with something else.

 

just saying.....

You're probably right and I don't know what I'm talking about.

btw, what do you mean "if I remember correctly"

Probably. Others may have those same things in play.

We tried high end Quadro's at work and they all had issues. We ended up returning them. I can't remember the model.
 

just sayin

Regarding the Xeon processor. I've used 2 pc's that have multiple Xeon processors and I feel I get better performance out of a Pentium. I'm sure some will disagree.

I would upgrade the video. Not sure which of the ones you listed would be the best. AMD (ATI) makes a FirePro that is just as good as nVidia's Quadro (IMO) in case you want to look at additional options. 

Everything on youtube looks great

hahaha

Did you happen to update your video drivers?

I have to be on the top plane to save the stl in the correct orientation. The "Current WCS" or "World Coordinates" doesn't seem to work. "Current WCS" is greyed out.

At my work, we could not get nVidia quadro cards to perform correctly. I'm not sure what model the cards were but I know they were $600 a piece. My pc had choppy graphics, others peoples would crash when they opened mastercam. We ended up returning the cards and just getting cheaper ATI gaming cards and they work great.

Hypermill, it costs less then Mastercam, and is better for surfacing and 5 axis work. Most of the mold guys I deal with that aren't doing 5 axis are using Tebis, NX and WorkNC.

 

Yes you can drive one of these machines with Mastercam, as I stated in my first post (would it kill you guys to just read the whole post and not get so emotional?).

 

Roders is a really high end machine, this isn't just a normal high end machine like a Matsuura or Makino.

 

You can make molds with a Haas and OneCNC, and probably good enough for a lot of applications.

 

All I am suggesting if that you look into something more efficient and higher quality to match the level of machine you are buying.

Hypermill is excellent for true 5 axis machining, but I know one of the local trainers. Hypermill is like $40k with SW. Full blown MCAM is much less than that.

I just click the save parameters button

I think both swarf milling toolpaths have cutter compensation.

Welcome. Does it keep hanging on the same toolpath? Could be the tool definition or holder.

Thanks, not only did that do exactly what I wanted, but it made me feel pretty dumb at the same time.

Lol, not my intention but thanks for the laugh. I keep forgetting that you can right click in there and in the planes manager.

Are you sure you have all the Tool Material boxes checked?

If there is nothing on the levels, you can right click in the level manager and select "Purge Empty Levels"

BenK,

Are you sure you selected you workspace as the default? Also, you might have accidently made changes to some other workspace thinking it was yours and then when you restarted mastercam it went back to the default. I did that a couple times.

Aaron, 

Thank you for checking it out.

If I understand you right, you could export one of the toolpaths from one file then import it into the other. Right click the toolpath you want to export-->select "Export"--> save it where you want using the file name you want--> open the file you want to import it to--> right click in the operations manager and select "import"-->navigate to the file and select it. There are a few other hoops you have to jump through along the way but thats the jist of it.

Thanks

175.mcx-8

For whatever reason, it doesn't like the plane you created. Specifically,  It's failing because of the YUANDIAN2 plane being used in the drilling operation you're using as the rest material definition in the milling operation. If you change the plane to TOP (wcs, tool plane and constr plane) and regenerate the operations it seems fine. I don't know why. 

btw, It looks like your using a drilling routing to make clearance for you endmill to enter. If it was me I would use a helix entry. It's probably faster than a drill op and toolchange at the machine. I added an example.

t2b.mcx-8

Hello,

 I have a feature to machine on a part I have that I thought I would use to try out the new Multiaxis Roughing toolpath in X8. I keep getting an error that says "Project to undercuts Depth must be between 0 and 100". I've manipulated just about every setting I could and I still get the message. Has anyone used the Multiaxis Roughing yet?