Hi Guys, I have a part with toolpaths on multiple faces (multiple setups). I am using different workplanes for each. Is there a way to select a toolpath and make its plane active for WCS, C and T? Right now I am opening up the toolpath, looking to see which plane it uses, then going into plane manager and selecting that plane for WCS, C and T. Very cumbersome. Any way to do it quicker?

Ooooo. I can't see these pictures. man I want to know what settings you're talking about. I will try to get some admin rights loosened up on this PC.

Damn it. The admins have about 2/3 of all domains blocked at this PC. I can't see any of these pics.

So, I asked our lead programmer about this and he seemed surprised that I was having trouble. He made a toolpath that collided with 100% of his model, both feed and rapid moves. When he did a simulation, there were no warnings, errors, or even red coloring to indicate a collision. He tried setting the model as a fixture, and still nothing. He could swear Mastercam used to collision check vs models. Collision vs models is working for everyone else but us? Can someone try it and post a screenshot? I fee like I'm flying blind without any software driven collision checking.

Thanks. I enabled the fixture and selected the solid. I still do not get any errors when I gouge the model in simulation. I have to be missing a step.

The company has that domain blocked

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I am not sure how to do that. Help file doesn't list anything under "fixture".

Okay, so I have a definite repeatable example. I am enlarging some holes on a customer supplied model. I am gouging the model by 0.025 per side. I do not get any errors from Mastercam. Is there any way to get a warning when this happens?

Yeah. I thought I did. I had operation change and collision checked. Collision detection set to everything. work piece turned on. One thing that surprised me was the block didn't have those big red streaks in it from being hit by the holder/shank.

Hi guys. So, one of the things (very few things) that I loved about Powermill was it's gouge and collision detection. It was bulletproof. I never did much of that with Mastercam, or certainly not to the same extent I did with Powermill. tried doing a verification of a toolpath with MC and turned on collision detection (or at least I thought I did). I didn't get any errors, but the tool obviously rapid traveled through the part and block (retract set to incremental instead of absolute). I caught it, but I was a few moments away from running the toolpath. Am I missing a setting or option somewhere? Can someone walk me through the process of collision/gouge checking?

Looked for any other threads that mention this, but I came up empty handed. I'm using X9, and trying to select a group of entities. I created the group and added the lines. I can even click the "view" button from the groups dialog box and it works fine. I cannot figure out how to select the entities of the group for X-form... what am I doing wrong? Select button from groups dialog box isn't actually selecting anything...

i did just move my network share to a new hard drive. network path is the same, but local path is different.

thanks!!! that fixed it. but wtf... is there an option somewhere that's been set wrong? I never want multiple programs for the same plane, and if I do i'll control that.

Hi Guys, Been a while since I've been on here, but I ran into something recently that is a real pain... Since updating to X9, I've found that sometimes multiple operations on the same plane want to create their own program. Serious pain in the a$$.... I have to delete the operations and rebuild them from scratch to fix the problem so I can produce a single NC file. Any ideas?

First project I get thrown on me is a 42" x 27" Injection mold. Solidworks is Awesome

and no. i haven't seen any program that specifically does it.

In my experience, you don't want this. You'll spend as much time moving the dimensions around or adjusting where they reference as you will to just create them in the first place.

I always heard ProE was the end-all-be-all for CAD packages, but after I worked with Creo I was disappointed. Super clunky and temperamental... Solidworks feels a little more intuitive.

I'll have to resist the urge to do quick drawings in Mastercam.

I hope the learning curve isn't bad. I've doing 3D solids for about 18 years and worked with Mechanical Desktop, Inventor, Creo, and even a little SolidEdge. The trick will be learning all the efficiency techniques. I'm guessing it will be a few months before I'm comfortable with it.

and hiding my excitement is proving difficult

I finally convinced my boss to buy it. Installing now. Signed up for a couple training classes to cut the learning curve down. I'm so excited

I've had some recent odd jobs I had to turn down because we don't have a CNC lathe. The lathe work required wasn't too involved, but was required between operations. I couldn't justify milling, then sending out for lathe work, then milling to finish. This interests me greatly. It looks like tool holding block is the most critical part. I have a small 3 jaw lathe chuck the owner ordered, but never used. I'm wondering now if I can modify it to fit one of my tool holders and re purpose it

I'm glad to know I'm not alone, but it's disheartening to know so many companies cut corners like this. This job is for a huge international company, as part of their prototype division. I feel like their engineering department should be above reproach. I'm currently in school for Mechanical Engineering. I can't wait to finally make it so I can send out xxxxty prints and models