Well the technology preview has been up for a while... but it appears to have been taken down and replaced with a Mastercam X7 coming soon!

I'm not sure you can turn off the message. You just need to pick "no" to post the one operation you want.

Hey Greg, the post should be good not sure why you are seeing F9999. Those parameters in the post were changed between X2 and X3 I believe. I thought the post was a little older which is why I asked how old the post was.

Not sure if this has been covered yet but in your control definition are you sure you have the feedrates set to output Inverse Feed?

Hey GPC_CNC

I believe you are seeing the F9999. due to the post not being updated properly. There are some parameters that were changed in previous versions and if they are not updated then the post outputs a F9999. How long have you had this post for? Do you know who wrote your post? Do you know who updated your post if it was updated?

Contact your Mastercam Reseller and inquire about getting a post for your machine. In-House Solutions has a post that will work with your machine and will only require user specific formatting changes.

Hey Drogers,

This could be related to your feed settings in the control definition. Are you doing any rotary motion or 5-Axis machining? What post are you using? Would it be possible for you to put a zip2go file together of a basic contour, drill and pocket issue where this is present and put it up here?

Hey Beginner1977

The post team at In-House Solutions has written posts for vertical and Horizontal machines with aggregates. We have also setup Machsim to utilize aggregates on both horizontal and vertical machines. To make our machine sim as accurate as possible what we does is utilize the post to create the simulation file based on the output the post is going to create when making the NC file. This allows us to take into account the calculated coordinates and rotary axis positions for each point in the toolpath. If you would like us to set something like that up for you please contact your local Mastercam reseller to request a quote from us.

We have a dell computer at work with a Quadro 2000 card in it. We run Solidworks and Mastercam at the same time and the card handles it. When I say we run these two programs at the same time I mean both programs are open but they usually aren't processing graphics or toolpath's at the same time. Someone is going to suggest you get a Quadro 4000 card which is about double the cost. What it comes down to depends on how much you want to spend and how long you intend on keeping the computer/system for.

First off when you type in all capitals it comes off that your yelling.

I would recommend you take some training at your Mastercam re-seller as it will maximize your change to learn. It will also allow you to ask questions and get immediate answers and feedback. If you cant take training at your Mastercam re-seller is a Lathe book you can purchase from the store here that has a couple of live tooling tutorials. There are plenty of tutorial/classes to lean how to program this machine.

Yes it will show you the post line and postblock where the code is coming from. It actually gives you a lot of information if you're new to making post mods. With that being said I would recommend backing up the post before making any modifications to it.

If you are using mpmaster or a post derived from mpmaster there is a misc value "lock on first work offset" if you turn that on in the first tool-path it will only output G54.

It sounds like when you modified the setup sheet they lost their associativity and aren't linked together anymore.

I think you are going to have to help us out by providing a little more information. Perhaps you were using an Active report setup sheet or maybe your config file got changed to use a different setup sheet. From the sounds of it your looking for the active report setup sheet.

If you are going to invest in getting the models or making them yourself be sure you integrate Machsim with your post otherwise it wont show you exactly what is happening on the machine. Our post group at In-House Solutions can incorporate Machsim with the post. As mentioned above CAMplete offers this service as well.

Hey Darin please read the rules for the forum

I don't believe it is possible to add or subtract icons to the Operations manager. You can add them to your right mouse button menu if that would work better.

Hey Slyym

I know when some people purchase the machine they negotiate with the Machine reseller to "throw" it in or include it in the price which you would think shouldn't be an issues since they already have it modeled up. But I think its something you need to negotiate when you purchase the machine otherwise it becomes an accessory. Another suggestion, maybe a lot of work but you could always model up the machine yourself. I realize this isn't ideal but then you would have the models to do what you want with them.

In order to optimize your back plot times what you need to do is go into the Machine Definition, then go into the General Machine Parameters and choose Machine Dynamics. These setting will take a little bit of setting up and playing but you will need to adjust these settings to represent your machines capabilities. Once done the back plot times should be more a more accurate representation of your actual machining times.

A side note:

Mastercam does not compensation for the accel/decel of your machine. Your machine accelerates to your feed rate and decelerates to a stop this is not taken into account.

Also helix milling and contour ramping of circles is off by a factor of 2.

As well Peck Drilling is not calculated. All drilling cycles are simulated as a linear move from the top to the bottom of the hole.

Using a .set setup sheet will also give you a more accurate machining time.

I did a little Google search on this subject because I know I have ran into this when helping someone out on the tech support desk, however I couldn't remember the solution to the problem. It appears it maybe related to your language settings. If you go to Start, Control Panel, Region and Language and then Keyboard and Languages. Then click on Change Keyboards and ensure there is only one default language setup there being English US. If you have a second or 3rd select the other language and choose remove. Give this a try and let us know if this works for you.

I know living in the great white north for some reason when we install Windows we get 3 yes thats correct 3 different languages (US English, Canadian English and Canadian French) and from time to time the keyboard will switch from one to the other and then back again. So I usually just remove the Canadian English and Canadian French and then we are good to go.

Here is a link to a basic video describing the process to create a basic threadmill and how to use it in the software.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w54DywBujVU

Thoob send me a PM I will remember that way when I'm at work to look into this for you.

What about contacting the Machine reseller for the machsim model? There maybe a cost associated with this, however then you know you will have the correct model.

If people have the model they may have paid for it already and may have signed an agreement to not re-distribute the model.

Thoob - The reason the backplott time is off is becuse it doesnt account for the machine acceleration and deceleration. You can get this time closer by changing the values in the Machine Definition and in the Machine configuration I believe.... will have to double check this tomorrow at work. Once complete create a basic setup sheet and the time will be close to what your looking for. The one bit of time it cant account for is tool change time but just add 2-3 seconds per tool and your times should be alot closer.

you can always download and customize our setup sheet for you needs.

http://www.emastercam.com/board/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=529

This error is common if you migrated between X5 and X6. The reason for the error is because in X5 there was only 1 operation for all the HS toolpaths. In X6 they gave you 1 operation per toolpath. You managed to fix it which is great but if you get the error again my suggstion would be to get a copy of the default X6 operations file and put it on your system.