Hi Pete and Ryan. I wish to share with you our progress on the topic. Today we got responded by our reseller regarding the two questions we had: 1. How to create tool-path using geometry we add to a face we work on, instead of the contour of the face? The image at the beggining of this topic describe it. 2. How to nest non-planar bodies/parts, including its tool-paths, to a single plane? the answers we got are: "In SW we have toolpath nesting only, no any geometry nesting function in SW AFAIK. Also disassemble function not exists in SW since it uses separate part files to create assemblies." If that's MCFSW capabilities for today, when do you think we would see a useful tool for our needs? Cheers. Avshalom Noham Industrial Designer.

The first thing I did was contacting my reseller. He has never experienced with SW plug for woodworking yet, so it might take a while until I will get replies / solutions. I prefer to look for knowledge abroad instead of wait. Since I am time limited with the Solidworks trial version, I look for fast answers at the forum hoping to evaluate the software before expiry. Other than my previous unsolved issues, here is another: today i work only in mastercam X9 and i have a button "solid disassemble" that make great work with the parts and then i made nesting. in the new software "mastercam for solidworks" i dont have this button. how can i make it? Cheers. Avshalom Noham Industrial Designer

Hello there. Up until today I used SW at in studio and exported X_T to MC at the factory. It creates a lot of double modeling and it's a mess to track all the versions. So I decided to try SW at the factory with MC plug. As soon as I started working on tool paths It got tricky. maybe somebody is familiar with this tool: 1. After I applied tool paths, how do I nest the parts, including tool paths, on the stock plane? 2. When routing in 2D where there is an undercut, how do I limit the area to cut so the tool path wouldn't cut out material that "shades" the undercut? 3. Where do I find instructions / manual / case studies of working with MC plug to SW? Cheers. Avsha.

hello we have in the factory a brand new woodworking 5axis homag. my dealer provides me the post-processor but i was surprised that the machine wouldn't be able to process it because it's a new open post-processor and not a standard one. homag claims that they can sell authorized posts, but if anyone wants to write himself a new post, he has to purchase a universal macro for $,$$$. has anyone met this situation? any suggestions?