That's funny! Our situation is slightly different, we are a machine shop in a large university Physics department. We don't have the $$$ to afford full versions of SolidWorks, the educational one is what we have to use. We'll find a work around, though, we always do....

Maybe I'll write Santa a letter, I've got more chance of getting an industrial version of SolidWorks from him

Correction: our Mastercam seats are also an educational version, maybe some functionality is missing there too? I will check with InHouse

That may very well be the problem, thanks. Our MasterCam seats are the industrial version, but our SolidWorks seats are indeed the educational version. It would have been handy for the guys in our machine shop to open the same file either with a stand alone MC seat OR a MC4SW inside SolidWorks depending on the preference of the user concerned. Thanks again

or zipped here 3x_files_we_cannot_open.zip

Hello again, 3x files we cannot get to open correctly are publicly available here, all *.SLDPRT files. Thanks

Gcode, Thanks for your input. Nick and I work together, I am having the same issue on my machine too. We are making some progress, but still are not able to get the toolpaths to open in stand alone MasterCam. The furthest we get is having the underlying geometry used in the creation of toolpaths but nothing more. Importing the solids history from Solidworks is working fine. Where is the FTP site to upload a test file to you? (forgive the newbie question, this is my first eMastercam post!) Thanks