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Thad

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  1. My tools are listed in ascending order when I open the tool manager via the menu (Toolpaths-Tool Manager) or when selecting a library tool in an operation's parameters. I have no idea how I got that to stick.
  2. I've only clicked on geometry to select the next entity. Clicking the arrow never even occurred to me. When selecting any chain, you click on the geometry to select it. When MC finds a branch point, clicking on the geometry seemed like the logical thing to do.
  3. Guest is someone who is no longer a member here. Not sure on the video.
  4. A side note, for those who weren't around back then...Alex's avatar was Winnie the Poo. Thus all the "bear" references throughout his posting history and replies to him.
  5. Yes. And you'd be a fool for not taking Ron (or Aaron) up on it.
  6. Can you be a little more specific? I don't believe I've ever seen a greyed out toolpath manager. What version of MC are you using? Welcome to the forum!
  7. I don't know how detailed of a comparison you need, but I just do a FIle-Merge (make sure each part is a different color) and look for differences.
  8. Nice work, @HCProf! I got a challenge coin from my unit in Germany. SPEARHEAD!
  9. Or just make sure you're in 2D mode. Then it doesn't matter if that box is checked or not.
  10. Wireframe tab > Trim to Entities works for me. Moving my mouse around, only wireframe gets highlighted.
  11. You're going to have a tough time in this trade. Good luck!
  12. I use a similar technique when it fails, but I go the other way with it and push/pull the hole smaller. Like you've seen, Terry, It seems to fail if there are multiple surfaces that span the hole. I use push/pull to make the hole smaller until the hole only has a single surface surrounding it, then it will delete every time.
  13. I'm so used to using Alt+E for stuff like this that even it they fixed it, I'd still use ALT+E.
  14. Pretty sure even GibbSCAM has that. IIRC from 25 years ago when I used it. Workarounds may be the only option at this point.
  15. @Elad S, it's been a long time. I hope you're doing well! You're from Israel, right?
  16. You're all about considering copied ops.... ...until you aren't. Just sayin. I thought that's what the cursor icon was for.
  17. In over 20 years of using MC, I've never used tip comp and breakthrough. I couldn't care less what page that setting is on, or if it even exists at all. Doing die work, we do a lot of holes that start and end at different Z depths (inside pockets, keys, break into pockets/steps on the other side, etc) so I change back and forth from absolute to incremental multiple times per day. I also copy and reuse toolpaths all day long. So if you think Abs/Inc is changed "almost never," you're wrong.
  18. By hidden, do you mean dashed lines or do you mean not visible?
  19. I'm seeing a trend with Mastercam. The more time that goes by, the more it sucks.
  20. It was probably just autocorrect.
  21. @JB7280I would get in touch with Ron, if I were you.
  22. To clarify, Ron meant to say Simplify spline, not Simply. Simplify is a command to turn splines into lines and arcs. It can be found under the Wireframe tab, then under the arrow dropdown of Refit Spline. Your tolerance settings will determine how successful you are at converting to lines/arcs. In order to drive the Swept 2D toolpath, you need lines and arcs. As you've seen, MC will error out if you select splines. Thus the Simplify command to turn the splines to lines/arcs.

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