Hello Lukas, welcome to the forum use the surfaces to "create>curve>curve on all edges". You may have to clean up any duplicates including splines that may not be exact duplicates but are overlapping. then use the containment option to chain the new curves.

David that is a great video! I have a drawing that I use to teach with that could use this, I am going to give it a try on Monday. On an other note I noticed that the version of Mastercam that you used in the video has MU2 but my search for MU2 turned up nothing. Is it comming out shortly or did I miss something?

This may happen if you chain geometry in the wrong direction usually a pocket and there is not enough room to create a lead-in or lead-out for the compensation. The reason you have to hit the ok button so many times is probably because the compensation failed that many times.

ok I will thanks

Jay, sorry for the delay I have been pulling some pretty busy days at work, I believe I did install the drivers but not 100% sure any more, it has been a while. At one time there was an "unfixable " problem that did not allow you to zoom in with the scroll wheel. It is an older mouse "Wireless Mouse 5000".

I also use the Logitech Performance MX Mouse, I even have one for my laptop I love it so much. I used to have all the different buttons programmed but since I formatted my hard drive just never got to customizing them again. With all that said, is there any kind of a fix for the crappy way a wireless Microsoft mouse works with the zoom? I even tried it with X7 and no improvement on it.

Hey Jay just watched your video, great presentation! The stuff I teach does not include imported models so I never get a chance to play with dynamic, but it has a great use with multi part models.

I just finished with the afternoon webinar, I like the changes in the verify and backplot, the way it will switch automatically to 5 axis, and especially that you can save the verify settings to your preferences.

I guess your right gcode but...how soon is soon? Thanks Aaron just waiting patiently and hoping that the right fixes were done. Looking forward to the webinar.

Is there a release date for MU1?

When you open settings\configuration then on the bottom left corner of the dialoge window there is an "open" icon, you should be able to navagate to your config file and not disturb the original settings.

It kind of all depends on the toolpath you are verifying. if its just a 2D then 1 and 1 is usually ok but if its a brutal 3D it may take a long time to verify so I usually use 100 and 1000. Make sure that you have stop on collision check marked so the verify stops in case of collision. It also depends on the graphics card you are running.

What upgrades, I have given up on Microsoft mice but if it works that wouldbe great. Do you have a link?

I don't know anyone by that name here now, I have been here for 4 years. Where are you now?

I teach at Conestoga College, Manual programming and Mastercam.

I see, yea sometimes it is hard to visualize someone elses concepts and a drawing speaks volumes. You went the extra mile with all the levels, I like it. I highly endorse and use levels alot, there are alot of people that don't use levels, I also use different colours for my surfaces. Most of the time it is easier to pick out the different surfaces and also see the wireframe.

Just wondering...why the surfaces? wire frame would have been enough to machine, wouldn't it.

MasterCam is breaking the circle into quadrants, not the best way to make a circular pocket. there are some settings in the control def. you can change.

We use the same type of software at the college that I teach at, its called Deep Freeze. We have many seats of M/C installed, the nice thing about M/C these days is that the config files end up in "My Documents" that is on an "unfrozen" network drive. I believe the IT dept. has a script that looks for the config files in the student's document folder on the network and if there is non (only on the first time that the student starts M/C) it will write the config files to that location and any changes that student makes to M/C via the config files are saved only to that students config files. It works real nice because the student can log in at any computer with M/C installed and his (her) settings are used. That is a thumb nail of what happens not sure of all the details in full.

Hi Matt, I see you are from Kitchener as am I. I don't have all the answers but for the question #1 I believe you can't any longer, I have looked all over for these settings and as far as I know they have to be setup everytime you restart MasterCAM. even the animation speed has to be set everytime. Also as far as I know the sectioning only works as you described it.

Well I had some time last night so I tried some of the suggestions and of course they work great. I D/L the verisurf tool and installed it to have a look, I will have to try that soon. Thanks again guys.

Thank-you both gentlemen, I will try both sugestions ASAP,(probably not till early next week). I am working tons of hours this week...next week I can play.

Collin, this is something I could use, could you explain this a bit for me.

Classic backplot also shows the machine time and breaks it up into the operations that you backplot, but the same problem is still there..the fixed cycles may not be right.

Thanks Jay, having a rough go with X7, but I am trying.