Is anyone here using Mastercam to program your Modig extrusion mill? If yes, are you using Swiss or simply Mill or some other Mastercam Solution? Thanks! -Pat

Good suggestion. I am looking for automated output. Our customer revises hole counts routinely and want to make use of the file data and not rely on user input. Thanks!

I am in the process of developing an Operations list and would like to include the drilled hole count for the machine operators to verify all holes exist. I do not see this in the xml list. Is there another way to get geometry data from drill ops for my report? Thanks!

Thanks! My reseller said it will be a month or so before they release these typically. I will contact Vericut to see about the Beta.

Does anyone have an inside scoop on when Moldplus CATIA Direct or Vericut will release for MCam 2017? I have a request into my reseller but thought I'd get a quicker response here. Thanks!

Will do. Thanks Mick

I am experiencing the same issue. It is taking up to 4 minutes to process two 2D profiles. Does anyone else experience this?

I haven't used X9 much so bear with me. When I try to analyze anything no dialog is displayed. It just prompts to select entities. It will highlight the entities as selected but no output that I can see. I tried minimizing the MC window but no where to be found. Anyone else seen this? Thanks, -Pat

Colin, That's what I thought the case is. It can stay like it is for now, it's not that important but seems a little strange there isn't a parameter for this field. Thanks, -Pat

Is there a way to get these labels or is there a more comprehensive sop number list to code what I want? Thanks, -Pat

Deleting the User Profile and creating a new one worked. Thanks, -Pat

This appears to be related to the users Windows Profile. Another user can login to the same box and the NetHook works as advertised. So I sent the user to another box and he could login and it works. I am going to delete the windows profile on the offending box and let the Domain recreate the profile and my guess is, all will be well. I will post back and let you know. Thank you for the help!

Is there a sparameter for the operation/toolpath label/name displayed in the operation manager. For instance, If the toolpath is a Surface High Speed (Core Roughing), the sopnote outputs Multisurface-Finish. I am not seeing the correlation for the sop##'s and the label in Ops Mgr. Thanks, -Pat

Thanks Roger. The mystery deepens... The CD_Compare runs but Zip2Go and my NetHook do not. The really strange part is that this problem is specific to a user login. My login works fine. The corporate IT department has things locked down pretty tight but they have been fairly consistent in the past. Any other thoughts?

Has anyone experienced their NetHooks not working after a Windows Update? I am getting an exception on 2 out of 10 workstations that has been working without issue for months until the last round of Windows 7 updates a couple weeks ago. On one of the 2 boxes, the Zip2Go won't run but DLL's like FindOverlap will. On the second box, all of the other DLL's seem to be working but mine, but I didn't check all of them. The other 8 workstations are fine. All are Win7 64-bit but various manufacturers. Thanks, -Pat

Thank you Mick! That was all it was. I knew I was going about that all wrong. This is the kind of coding you get from a copy and paste learning style. I appreciate the help! -Pat

Ok, I've struggled way too long with this. All I'm trying to do is select 3 lines and a point among a bunch of other geometry on the screen and move the selected geometry to a Level. Mastercam X7 MU2 Sp1, NetHook3_0, VS2010Express It doesn't like the AskForMultipleGeometry line. I know it's me asking it to do something it's not supposed to do but I'm too new at this I guess. This is my first attempt at interacting with Mastercam using a NETHook. Everything else I've done has been mostly "outside" of Mastercam's interface. private void ChgGdGeoLvl() { Mastercam.Database.Types.GeometryMask gdGeoMask = new Mastercam.Database.Types.GeometryMask(true); Mastercam.Database.Types.SelectionMask gdSelMask = new Mastercam.Database.Types.SelectionMask(true); gdSelMask.Selected = true; Mastercam.Database.Geometry[] gdGeom = SelectionManager.AskForMultipleGeometry("Select GD to be moved to Level 9004", Mastercam.Database.Types.GeometryMask gdSelMask); foreach (var item in gdGeom) { item.Level = 9004; item.Commit(); } } private void GdWcsLvl_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ChgGdGeoLvl(); }

I'm running X7. I started with NETHook3 in VS Express 2013 but I must have something hosed there because my Form wouldn't come up at all. I switched to VS Express 2012 and NETHook2 and it worked. I need to switch to 3 in 2012 to see if there is a problem there. Shouldn't be. I threw this together really fast to get my customer some help with all the files they're processing and it will help them but I need to clean up the ugly code I have. The refresh issues are not a big deal for them right now since the app is saving so much time per file plus they don't leave their level manager open anyway so it's a low priority, more of an OCD issue for me I guess. Thanks again for all the help Roger! Glad you logged this to be fixed, I've had a couple other people tell me their frustrations with them leaving the manager open while opening a new file and it displaying the previous file's levels until they close and reopen the manager or refresh it from the RMB menu.

I wrote a C# NETHook that names levels per a company standard then moves Solids to one level, Surfaces to another, etc. This is needed because they receive 10 to 300 Catia single part files (imported using MoldPlus' translator) that need material size set before being programmed for production. If the user has the level manager open when they start the NETHook, the Level Manager state does not update during or after the app closes. It displays the same state as before, however if you close it and reopen or right-click and refresh the list it shows the changes made. One other thing that may be related is the user must Regenerate Display List for the graphics display to be correct as well. Thanks for the help.

Is there a way to refresh the level manager from a C# NETHook? Am I overlooking it in the NETHook2_0.dll? Thanks, -Pat

Gcode, This was the best work around for me. I still put this in my book as a bug or actually a parameter that shouldn't exist. If the operation is looking at machine kinematics then the rotary axis should only be needed for clarity for a 5-axis machine and even that is questionable, unless the Help file is wrong in saying the axis selection is about WCS when it actually is about the Tool Plane. Thanks again for the post, This will at least stop the errors from coming up. -Pat

Thanks for the responses. Joe - We use Top - Front for B0 Crazy - Yes all the levels are on, I turned them off for the screenshot. Colin - It appears that my assumption was correct in that this is truly a bug if your approach "fixes" or more accurately "works around" the issue. If I have to lie about the machine in order to get Mastercam to not error then turn around and have my post ignore the lies.... that's a bug. Thanks for the input! Helps alot!

Has anyone else seen this? It appears to be a bug going back to at least X5 and still present in X7. We are running 4-axis horizontal Makino A61's. All paths are set with WCS to TOP and any Tool/Const Planes set as needed. i.e. Front, Left Side, Custom, etc. In the 5-Axis Drill operation parameters under the Tool Axis Control there is a Rotary Axis setting for X, Y, or Z. Mastercam Help says this setting is based on WCS so since our B-axis (rotary) is about the Z-axis that is what is selected and Mastercam says it's valid. However, the code is wrong and back plot reflects it. In order to get the correct code this must be set to Y-axis. However, when you reopen the file it goes dirty because Mastercam says the path is not valid with the Machine Definition. Is no one using 5-Axis Drill? Or are we doing something wrong? I have tested this on the supplied Mastercam MD/CD's as well as the custom ones we use. No change. We have tried all logical WCS, TP, CP combinations with incorrect code results. Thanks, -Pat

Hi Peter, My current app saves the data to a MS Access Database file. The cool thing is that you don't need MS Access to run it. I am also working on a version that saves to SQL DB as well as with the MCX file. Not the descriptor. I am not willing to share code here as I am in the process of marketing it. If you are interested in what I have message me. Thx, -Pat

Well I finally got something to work close to what I envisioned. http://screencast.com/t/fRALn8sCWTi Please give me your thoughts/criticism. Thanks, -Pat