Well there you go then, I thought I had read somewhere that you could turn on associative but as I use the dynamic plane creation for pretty much everything now that isn't available as an option so I guess Id never learnt about it. learn something most days Sorry Stevieboy gave you a bum steer, you can do it

Sometimes after deleting geometry there are ghost entities that show up in the levels manager that aren't actually there.

Not as such. You can translate to a plane, or use dynamic transform to move geo to an already created plane. But as far as I know you can't move geo that is created on a plane with that plane.

Roll form ?

I find the same, something that made a huge difference for me, especially with multi axis work is using viewsheets, awesome how they display and switch everything you need on depending on what you saved to each viewsheet, real time saver and very helpful when you go back to a file months later.

geirsj, Thanks for this, I sorted it after someone else gave me the code but your post was helpful in teaching me how to find the code. Learning all the time ;-)

Hi Is there a specific opcode or tool_op id for the Lathe Cutoff operation ? I am helping a mate modify his MPLmaster post and we want to be able to advance the parts catcher along with the change to the slower rpm and feed rate at the specified diameter in the operation. I was thinking of using the rpm change area of the post along with a on/off misc integer and some logic tying it to the specific "cutoff" operation to achieve this. Hence why I need to know what the specific op id is for the "cutoff" operation. Thanks

Ok Thanks, going to be interesting !

no one ?

Anyone have any experience they can share with machining subject material. Is a high Cobalt material that is very ductile and used in magnet applications. We have to turn it and drill a 4mm hole 30*d deep !! Thanks

really need to see the next page in your rotate parameters too.

Not what you're asking for but I just turn the filter to all on and you get the same thing.

What post are you running ?

Yes we use this a lot as we have to pick coned holes a lot which Mastercam hole axis can't do, but it doesn't quite work how I would like it as it creates the point and start of the axis at the centre (in the axis) of the surface/face you have selected not the top edge which is ideally what I want for spotting and drilling holes. We are using this function on complex 3d formed medical parts so the holes are never just a nice cylindrical bore with a flat top and bottom, they are always truncated to the surface.

Thanks for explaining it for me Roger. In some ways if the Hole axis function worked as it is labelled we would be in business as it says "extend axis", not "extend axis and place circle and point at top of extension" !

Well done

+1000

We work like you in some instances and window select points with an axis for 5 axis drilling, these are usually created to a separate level for easy selection. Now my biggest bug bear and something I have requested a few times is a function that would create a point at the centre top of a cylindrical hole , now this is the crux, "with" an axis line that extends "above or away" from this point. Why, because this is exactly what 5 axis drill or circle mill requires and it is unbelievably frustrating to have to create an axis and point, extend the axis and trim them back to the point on a lot of holes to achieve a correct drill orientation. I really can't see it being very hard to add the option to create an axis above the feature to the current "create hole axis" function in MC but after numerous requests and a lot of support from other users, I have decided it must be because CNC software aren't listening !

Hi Ron, Your tool path actually violates the inside corner of the slot. There would need to be extra geometry created to swarf the modelled slot due to the way the walls taper to a point above the lower rail at that inside corner. So yet again we wish all designers were machinists !!

scrap that, I have just realised that Mastercam has dumped all my holders linked to the ops for some reason !!

in MC 2017 the Toolholder boxes are not populating, we just get Default holder in both the "holder new" and "holder old" columns is anyone else seeing this ?

Can't find your original link !

Just a little functionality I stumbled across today that can help with the cumbersome 2017 tabs functionality - if you hold your cursor over the tabs bar the scroll wheel of your mouse can be used to scroll along the tabs, pretty quick.

I know !!!

On a side note I came across a bug yesterday in MC2017 that won't allow you to use 90% stepover with area mill toolpaths, just wont process. 89.9% or 90.1% works. Has been logged.