Mine is blue...my other programmer uses black as well. I think it is relevant to the colors we prefer using?

sometimes copying the surface and trimming to your curves is a fast remedy?

If you are a mold shop work with surfaces a lot I would highly recommend moldplus add-on.

maybe taking off less with faster feed speed will help you?

Or...if you mean that at the beginning of a path the entry is very rough? if so maybe try playing with the entry/exit of the tool?

welcome... you will find that just reading the posts in here will teach you many new tricks. There are some very helpful and knowledgeable people on this forum. Oh and just ignore the idiots!!!

try putting it in a zip file.

awesome! thank you!

thanks guys..i passed this on to my IT guy...see if it makes sense to him!

yes...64 bit

Hi all!!

Been super busy here so I decided to invest in some software and hardware...I purchased VeriCut, thanks for all of you that helped with that decision, and a new pc. My issue is that i don't feel like my pc is spitting out code much faster than my 4 year old HP laptop was. My question for all you guru's is this. What can I do to use my resources more efficiently? can I allocate some resources specifically to Vericut and others to mastercam? Are there settings within MC and Vericut that will help me? PC specs are on my siggy. Thanks in advance!!

Better surface construction/manipulation such as flowline direction.....ect....ect....

Hey all...been awhile....I have a customer that needs a layout and all I have is an stl file... is there any way to create surfaces or solids off this stl so i can do a layout?

did you try opening just the files and changing them into a MC file? I also have issues sometimes where engineers send me files, but when i go to open them, there are no entities in the file?

If you don't have art you can't pull a picture into MC to my knowledge? otherwise you can use the rast2vec Chook to get some geo.

if you making the groove all around a square part can you use curve toolpath and select surface all edges? i find that works better that using geo and using surfaces to drive it. i always use the edge whenever possible on a curve, seems to be much cleaner?

hi there,

i posted a way of doing it a few weeks ago, might be helpful,

 

http://www.emastercam.com/board/index.php?showtopic=63979&st=0&p=722357&fromsearch=1entry722357

Interesting...thank you...something to play with over the Christmas slowdown.

hmmmm....if i change it to a ball end tool it cut's fine. it's only when I use a straight that i can recreate your issue? may have to trick MC and tell it you are using a ball? that part should still cut good i think???

I may be missing something else as well? I would be interested in seeing someone elses solution. it just doesn't seem right that i have to cheat the software? And how do you teach people that in a class??? heck that's your problem not mine!!!

Users on Windows 7 cannot preview those art files. It works in Win XP though.

I am using 7 And it works fine for me???

did you try putting limits on X instead of Z?

but I'm not a novice at it either.

Hi Travis!!! Hope all is well? I think I know what you did. turn your angle increment in the tool axis control to 1. I would bet you have it on 2? From the time on your post looks like you were maybe up too late or had too many Thanksgiving spirits?! All I ever see is what looks like a slight adjustment right at the point of the limit? I assume you are talking about the classic multisurface toolpath? I seldom use that anymore since X5 released. the more advanced paths give me much more control. Hoping X6 is gonna have a magic button that toolpaths the part by itself!!!

Dave S.

My favorite way, is to do it right inside of the Level Manager. Right click on any level and a menu comes up and you can cut, copy, and paste right there, as well as, purge empty levels and renumber them.

hmmmmmm....i can't get mine to do this? I don't get a response when i right click in my manager? sounds like a nice way to do it... wonder why mines not working?

I'm with Keith... I quit using that time. i am more accurate looking at a part a guessing from experience. I tested this on a mold for the front end of a bus... it said a 40 hour part should take 15 hours!!! needless to say I won't be in business long if i use it for quoting purposes!!

Would be a very nice feature if it were close though....

Festus...thanks for the welcome and the suggestion. Unfortunately, to access the library, you do so through the Art menu, not Open. Through that, it does not give you the "preview" checkbox. Thanks!

????mine has it???

Welcome to the forum BTW!!

I would like to be able to see, in graphic form, the art included in the Mastercam Art Design Library. Does anyone have, or know of, a way to view the art without having to load it into Mastercam? Thanks!

when you open a file through MC. in the open file window check the preview box in upper left corner and you will see the file as it was last saved.