I am Robert Monroe Turner, I don't know who Jon Banquer is except that he is not me. Mastercam is a great, powerful program and I've just invested in some training I'm just surprised and disappointed that I am forced to use Isometric. I do my modeling in 3D Studio Max and my CAD in Inventor and I always switch to perspective rather than Isometric or Orthographic because when I do a profesional rendering of a model it only appears photo real as a perspective view. My favorite is Inventor's Perspective with Ortho faces. The problem is when I spend several hours modeling with perspective and then switch to Mastercam and am forced to use Isometric everything looks strange and it is annoying to me because I get used to seeing the model a particular way. As far as me venting, well I don't see it that way because if perspective was added to the program then it would be a benifit to users who would enjoy working that way, there would be no issue just choose your desired view and go with it.

"We don't do that" That is a real drag! Solidworks, Inventor, etc.. all have perspective view capability, even the Vectric products such as Aspire and V Carve have that function. Isometric sucks because that's not the way our eyes see things and at times it can be confusing and make models, pockets look crappy. You would expect a big badass program like Mastercam to have perspective view. Perspective view is important enough for all the other programs to use and incoporate why not Mastercam? Too bad there is not a plugin to ad this function.

H'mm still can't get perspective view only orthographic. I've been tryng but can't figure it out.

Wow! Thanks man, you're very cool for providing such a good explination. Thanks Robert

Solidworks, Autocad and Inventor all have the ability to switch from Isometric or Orthographic view to perspective view. Can Mastercam do a perspective view? It's very annoying to me not to be able to work in perspective view.