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Richard Thomas - Mastercam UK

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  1. It would appear that tools defined in Mill can only be managed in the Mill Tool Manager, which will require a Mill licence in addition to a Lathe licence. Curiously though, I noted that - unless I've made a real mess of my tool libraries - the lathe_mm.tooldb has the full default list of milling tools if it is opened in the Mill tool manager! Has the lathe tool library always been like that? I hadn't noticed before in the last 25 years
  2. Ah, fair point @JParis , my brain may have taken a shortcut when I read the word Tab
  3. Using this technique below is a quick way of setting up Tab locations and programming them with the 2D Contour toolpath. Please note that the toolpath needs to chain 2D Wireframe and not the edges of of the solid model directly, so you may need to use Curve/All Edges on your solid models first.
  4. I've been embracing the approach of having Stock Models at the beginning of each new stage of machining; if you select the appropriate Stock Model as well the toolpaths you want to review, then Verify automatically starts with that Stock Model. This might be helpful if the OP has been used to making in-process Stock Models and is used to to verifying with them in earlier versions. A down side of this is if you edit a earlier toolpath that subsequent Stock Models are referencing; it take a while to regenerate all of the models.
  5. New laptop! 3m 8s by the clock Dell Precision workstation 7770 Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12850HX, 2100 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s) Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB Nvidia RTX A3000 12GB 1Tb NVMe Mastercam 2023 Update 3
  6. The main thing that has pushed the customer into upgrading is the fear of their old PC hardware (early 2000's era) finally giving up the ghost and not being able to replace parts. They just about managed to recover from a cyber attack last year too. The management has accepted the IT dept's long-standing concern that they are leaving themselves open to a production halt unless they bring their HW/SW up to date. I have since wowed them with some of the things modern Mastercam can do, but I honestly think if they could continue to carry on as they are with no production risks, they probably would!
  7. We are also just updating a customer from Lathe 6.13! I started back around then, just before V7 came out
  8. I was just looking up some other info related to Mastercam Wire and came across your post. If you have the profile you want to program as wireframe, you can add points using the Square style to where you want the tabs to be located (you can choose the square point style in the same menu that you use to draw Thread points in the Home tab, or your right-click menu in the graphics area). Then in the Contour path you set the tab mode to Manual and then select "use Square points"
  9. Check the Edge Tolerance when you next try to use the Solids From Surfaces command - in Metric the default should be 0.075mm but I've known the figure to default to the English value instead which is 0.005.
  10. I think you might already know this but you can double-click the Depth value in the drilling segment list and then right-click to bring up menu that gives measuring options such as "Z=Z coordinate of a point" - that takes you back to the graphics screen so you can select a point and feed it back into the depth window. However you might already be using it as you have used the "compute distance..." option which I suspect you pick from the same menu? Also you may not be aware that you can actually use commands such and Analyze Entity Properties or Analyze Dynamic now in Mcam 2022 without closing/hiding the toolpath dialog at all - just drag the toolpath window to one side and start using the Analyze commands (you could even copy the values from there rather than the Top of Stock field you have been using). Apologies if you already knew all of this!
  11. FYI Fernando at CNC got the customer sorted... had to delete some registry entries for 2018 and then the customer had their keyboard shortcuts back!
  12. I opened X8, drew five rectangles and chained them in a single contour op. I then went to the Geometry section in the Toolpath Manager which pops up the Chain Manager window, and used the CTRL key on the keyboard to select two of those chain. The small square chain icons went darker in colour than the three remaining chain icons. When I pressed the Delete key on the keyboard, the two chains disappeared from the list. So using the Control key method works for me, not sure why it wouldn't work at your end, sorry.
  13. Hi guys, Has anyone come across this one before? A customer of mine has had Mcam 2018 lose it's keyboard shortcuts (this was after some error messages came up this morning on startup which he didn't note down)... even F9 or ALT-F1 don't work. If we take a look in the CONFIG folder under his user login, the KMP file is in the right place, but if we go to the Customize Keyboard window in Mastercam, there are no keyboard shortcuts assigned for any function. We pressed Reset All in that assignments window and we get "Unable to open C:\users\<<user folder>>\my mcam 2018\config\Mastercam.kmp. The file is there and we confirmed that folder path is correct (comparing the folder path in the error message to the folder path for 2018 in Windows) I then sent him 2018 WORKSPACE & KMP files from my own PC, shut down Mastercam, replaced the existing files (which to my mind rules out an issue with folder permissions), restarted Mastercam but the same error message came up when we tried to hit Reset All on the keyboard shortcuts. I then found the "default" KMP on his own computer under C:\program files\Mcam2018\common\userdefaults\config\. We copied that file into the correct location, tried Reset All again but got the same error message. I am now stumped!

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