I do not like how mastercam now handles expand and collapse so I usually only create toolpath groups for each operation, never each tool. I use as few as possible.

Why do you regret it? Im currently putting together a build that is 4k at the moment and I am debating if I want the rtx 5000 with double the ram. edit:: my biggest problem with this software is verify. I do simple cuts on very large parts and verify drives me batty.

We use a combo of tungaloy, kennametal and vardex insert thread mills and I can't stand any of them. I am gonna give these a shot thanks man.

I deal with too many models that come from a variety of often terrible sources so I have used point to define all my threadmill toolpaths for longer than a decade. I define my threadmills exactly how my source defines them so when the dudes on the floor get my tool list it says the same thing on the tin. My current source (JBO) defines the tip diameter and the shank diameter along with cut length. I just plug all that in to mastercam along with the taper (1.7833) into every npt I make (usually 1" to 2" npts) and I start with the OD tube diameter defined on the charts and work from there. Depending on the machine they typically end around -.002" to -.014" comp. The inserted npt threadmills we use occasionally just suck balls so we end up with a lot more comp than the solid carbide ones.

Threadmill works too. I use it quite a bit.

Thanks for this man. My vision thanks you as well

Are you doing any xform mirror imaging? I was finding xform mirror was changing parameters of my toolpaths in 2022 along with crashing a bunch and not letting me mirror legacy surface routines sometimes.

Its been awhile since I had access to those converters in mcam but there used to be a couple different translators. One was verisurf and the other I think was mastercams version.

I am not old enough to be in the old dog cant learn new tricks camp, but I am old enough to know when those new tricks are not helping me get stuff done. It is getting really frustrating.

Is there a problem with wanting the current version to work correctly? Why would I want to use multiple versions? They don't even fix problems with 1 version behind the current one. There are just to many things now that are user unfriendly in this version I don't think I am going to continue to use this.

I miss these paths I wish they would spring for the 5ax here. I still get area roughing doing plunge on walls instead of the horizontal arcs I explicitly set.

One of the first things I do when I move to a new version is update those sources to the new version. The migration tool never did update those so I would wonder why it would still reference 2020 when I don't even have that installed heh.

So long as you update the data sources.

And now they blend in nicely with my grey background so I can hardly see them at all. Definite downgrade for me.

I tried for so long to get a handle on query and and the finer controls of access and I just couldn't do it I gave up around 2003ish. I can however program my way around excel. I used to make a highly custom X+ excel file complete with tables of cycle times, MRR, feeds and speeds, torque, horsepower.... you name it I had it in there and it was mostly based off data I pulled from Machinery's Handbook. If you wanted to know how many parts you could get in 6 months at 70% efficiency with my current program broken down by toolpath? Done! Nowadays I have a few excel files I use occasionally. I have 1 to calculate savings between up to 4 different tools for testing. I didn't like any of the excel files my tool vendors gave me so I developed my own. I have 1 big excel file with loads of conversion math, chip thinning, finish calculations etc.., I do a lot of probing and macros now so I have a couple I use to test the math formulas I write for macros since I don't have a really good way of verifying my hand written chicken scratch.

oh my

Did you look into Guhring Diver mills? I am not sure they have that length/reach but they do make solid carbide with thru coolant in the flutes. That would get more coolant pressure to the tip of your tool to evac chips easier.

Depends. Some are "in aircraft space" and some I will move parts to print datums and WCS around the part as needed.

I setup my setup sheet a long time ago. Now I just adjust the info I display based on who I am working with and how skilled they are. I just setup my tools correctly in mastercam once and hit the report button.

You have 2 different systems making the posted code and the reports so they don't go together. What I do is put a manual entry at the top of programs formatted for what I need. And btw, LOL outhouse solutions!

Ive been doing serial numbers for far to long. Found the letters command many years ago and it has been on my right click menu ever since.

There are ways to do that. You can do a point to point toolpath, You can have your post output long hand code so its all g1/g0. You can also use advanced drill and that would get you g1.

If I could figure where it's doing the rounding/truncate I can plan for it but this was a 4 place and a 3 place decimal it was doing math against and I am just not good with math games.

I have my excel formulas worked out. For the trig stuff you just need to use RADIANS to get the correct answer. If I change this one value my excel spreadsheet (and my calculator lol) works out correctly. I can't understand why the control solves this macro as 12.5325. If I do #111=[-35.4335]-[-47.968] it solves as 12.5345.

I have checked this so many times I have lost count. I have rerun the program many times and still get the same results. I have the macro expression calculator and it solves to 12.5345. For whatever reason the 12.5325 number works out correctly when I draw the points in mastercam and rotate about center.