SP1 went live on the update servers yesterday, There is no change from the Beta SP1

Seperate download will be available Monday on mastercam.com

Greg

Under Linking - Clearance Area - Make sure it makes sense to your part

- Links Between Slice Small/Large - Retract to Clearance (Adjust accordingly)

- Links Between Passes Small/Large Moves - Retract to Clearance (Adjust accordingly)

^^^Great idea Rickster...so what's the skinny on MU1? Any expected date yet?

check out Gcode's sig for a clue

After doing thousands of MCX installs AVG is one of the antivirus programs that does not play well with MCX.. not all the time but more often that not. I have never been able to figure out why some and not others

Microsoft security essentials, free, lightweight, integrates with windows 100%, never had any issues with it.

Never any issues with MCX, or Solidworks, or any program for that matter....

I have a USB thumb Drive that I use at customer's to load files, take files etc, every now and again I plug it back into my laptop MSE catches trogans/virus in a split second.

are you righclicking inline with the "toolpath"? If yes you are reloading the NCI for Verify.. very annoying

you can have MCX, and HLE installed on the same PC

You need to define stock (Z+ stock) or Use the "Select points" in the Lathe Face parameters.

The toolpath wont cut air, you need to define that there is material for it to cut

Yesterday evening went out to Fry's and purchased the i7-3770k, asus sabertooth z77, 32 gigs of corsair, a small corsair ssd. Of course I went allready over my budget and will have to wait a month or 2 to get a quadro card. I can't wait to get this build going, and noted that the cpu comes with a built in gpu "hd4000". Curious if any have ran master cam using this integrated video?

For basic stuff the HD4000 is fine, not great but it will get you buy, anything involving surfaces/solids it will fall flat on its face.

http://www.hitachi-tool.co.jp/j/products/endmill/index_e.html

I used to think Hanita was the bomb... Pricey but the MMR/life of these tool's is amazing

Had a Production job, keyways in hardend Shafts

Mirus 3x cost of the hanita but:

Hainita EM 100-120 Shafts, Mirus 300+ Shafts and cut 1 minute 20 seconds of the cycletime per shaft

Cost per part was about equal for the endmill, but saving that time was huge in this case

Manual Guide I is great on Lathe, has some minor issues on the twin-turret/spindle machine that I ran years ago, but it has probably been improved on the 31i Control. I'm sure for 2 axis its solid.

MGi Mill its not so hot, fine if your just doing simple pockets, or bolt patterns.

Siemens, powerful but cumbersome to use, everything is on a different screen.

Heidenhain, one of the most powerful conversational controls on the market, both mill and lathe. I have seen a lot of people over the years struggle with the control as they are a bit different than everyone else, but on the other hand I know guys(few) who are wizards on the things.

I would have no problem putting a Heidenhain control on the shop floor, only thing holding me back is the machines they are attached to

Almost every Conversational is a PITA to use in BG editing mode.

If it were me, Fanuc.. but I would use a CAM to program and save money not buy MGi option.

I have installed thousands of serial device servers, Moxa is a good brand, have a great warranty, and there are extra features that incorporate with the Cimco software.

the W2150 is no longer available, it has been replaced with the W2150A (better internal parts, and firmware)

Quatech has been unreliable for us in the past so we have moved away from the brand

X7 comes with Cimco Edit 6, nice bonus

its not in X7.. oversight I think

I never had it turned on in X6 as I never use coolant codes in mastercam, I add them on the control.. less coolant showers that way

Stock Model is amazing I use it all the time, I too will do mini models after 1 or 2 toolpaths, but until it supports Transformed paths properly it still falls flat on its face more than it should.. STL is still needed

I have a Crazy complex part that required STL's, Stock model would crash repeatedly, i should dig it up and try it in X7

some machines have a parameter or setting to alarm if T and H don't match

After knowing better(never worked in the past correctly), I went ahead and tried the migrate utility yesterday at a customers.....

Don't use it, it breaks more than it helps, its not hard to throw tools/post/machines in a folder , update then put the stuff where it needs to be.. I always force people to rebuild there configs, and toolbars, only takes a few minutes.

Just my2cents

I would say 1 project every 2 weeks.... I have enough programming on my schedule as it is...

Very rookie question Ray I'm looking at your programmed part how did you select your geometry on the high speed core mill. I'm used to creating edge curves but seems you didn't have to do that? Also, Rotary I noticed on your part that you were able to project just the outside profile how did you do this? I am able to do this fine but I know there are faster ways to select and do this.

Silhouette boundary for the part, and drew a box for the stock. (I generally put all my containment's on another level)

The blue/green surfaces boundary's are done with silhouette boundary as well, Just select by color when creating them instead of the whole model. I put them up in the air to make selection easier.

Ok, you are the model master

 

But I am pretty sure a few of the guys in here are not quite ready for rotary work. I'm all for that Iron Man mask though! Did you model that?

Grabcad.com for most of it, I did model the helical gear, but in Solidworks (I have done Identical gears in MCX) someone else wasted a bunch of time for the ironman mask, but it is cool

I have lots more if you need, Try not to pick parts that require the same paths each time

Bridgeport are you doing this inside of MCX? or with the new Toolmanager?

There is a HOLDERS.TOOLDB (Contains all holders) with the X7 install, There are also CT40.holders, that you can save as .TOOLDB (like Aaron Mentioned) if you only want a specific set of Holders.

X6 HLE expires in October 2013, should have X7 HLE long before then.

Here is Rays program.

 

RAY_IDLER_BRACKET_MODEL

 

That is exactly why I wanted to do this Ray. To see all these new toolpaths I have never used. Thanks!

 

Ok, I have to comment on this some more... I have never seen the Dynamic facing option in the menu. That is pretty sweet. I am starting to see where having my Operation Defaults set to the way I like to work that it is keeping me from noticing things in the toolpaths that I have never used. This was an eye opener.

Whats stupid, is this part is a dream to program with the added functionality of X7, it was 1/2 the work with the added Check surface to Hybrid and the solid modify functions. Kind of funny that X7 was released today.. just no HLE yet for you guys without Sims at home.

Done, took longer to Verify then to program...but i was lazy and didn't do the holes, figured you guys don't need to be shown how to drill

Kevin, maybe you should put some limitations, on each project, machine type, material, Starting Stock??, etc.