Thanks for the Help, All I have to do now is talk Administration into paying for it.

Has anyone used a digitizer with Mastercam? I am looking at the Calcomp DrawingBoard. I have to take a lot of hand drawnings that are drawn to scale but have no dim. If I could put the drawing on the digitizer tablet and click a few points it would save me a lot of time.

I have tried using simplify to convert a spline to arcs and lines and I have never gotten it to work. Any one got any sugestions?

In the documents folder that was installed with mastercam is a PDF file which is a manual for mastercam art.

Thanks alot

Is there anyway when you import toolpaths with geometry you can get all the geometry? I have used this several times and would like to use it more but it doesn't import all the geometry? It seems to just import the geometry that is used on the toolpaths that you import.

I took the training at Lenior Community College. In Kinston, N.C. Thanks for the Info.

Has anyone heard when the next part of the certification will be ready? I already have my CPgM1.

I talked to Mastercam recently and they recomend the NVIDA Quatro FX cards, I believe that the G-Force cards are engineered for gaming and not for cad.

Thanks for all the input. I didn't think there was a way to do this , but you can always hope. Thanks again.

I'm using X2 and get the same error. I had the soildworks user save his file as a step file and it came in just fine.

Does anyone know if there is a way to convert stl files to step files. What I have is a lot of old programs that were programmed by other people using ver9 and X and I would like to run them in verify save them as a stl file then convert them to a step file and bring them back into mastercam X2. These are mold cavities that did work but the previous programmers didn't draw the part they just created enough geometry to creat there toolpaths. This worked but I would like to creat my own toolpathsbut save the work of recreating the part geometry.