but to answer your initial question here is where to find it.

A better question is why are you still using stl's in the first place, you should be able to do everything you need with stock models without exporting or saving any stl files in my opinion. That might be a better road to venture down rather than focusing on saving and moving stls or pmeshes around

oh, i see. yea i just tested it in 2019 and drew a box that only intersected some geometry and it seemed to work for me. Does the window not appear or is it not grabbing the intersecting geometry?

everything on my master cam 2019 works, i am not sure what in+ is, are you possibly talking about X+ setup sheets or Renishaw Productivity +?

I never found a use for setting morph to just 1 cut, until now. I would have used a Curve toolpath or project curve toolpath and probably got similar results but this just seems like a really easy method.

nice example David, i like how that is setup, a nice simple example and looks like a good toolpath

i never seen 5th axis cgi ever demand a part file from anyone, maybe he has asked for one i dont really know but it is much easier to help someone if you can see what they are doing in their file. i don't even know the dude or anything but i have been on these forums long enough to know every time i have seen him request a file it was because he was trying to help someone else. to me it makes perfect sense that he might need to blur something, you should be appreciative of what he did provide and all the time he spend trying to help this individual instead of complaining that he blurred something out because those of us that want to help might not even try for people that respond with comments like this.

can you post the part file or create a sample part with an almost identical toolpath and post it for us to take a gander at?

that is how it was with some of our guys that bought the stand up desks, a lot of them stood in front of the stand up desk at first and now i think they all sit again so i think the stand up desk was just a novelty for us as well.

oh i think i better understand your question now after re-reading this. It will depend on the shop that employs you, some shops might need to make more cnc programs than others due to how much repeat work or how large the order size is. So in my opinion, some shops cnc programmers spend much much more of their day programming and sitting down in front of a computer than other shops, there are just a lot of factors and a lot of shops do things different than one another. another example is some shops hire dedicated programmers along with operators, with this type of environment a majority or all programs are written from the programming team and the operating team run the parts so typically theses shops may have people in front of computers all day and others standing all day whereas other shops may have the same guy that programs the part run the part so that individual may see a mix of standing and sitting. your best bet is to research the company you are looking to be employed with and see what they are doing.

its whatever you want it to be, Since its software on a computer you can place your computer on a stand up desk, we have a few guys around our office that like them and they are better for health than sitting all day. For me I like my sit down or traditional desk because its very roomy for all the junk that i have around my computer and we have nice comfy chairs here that have nice airflow and are all day sitting type office chairs not a cheapo chair so its completely up to you on how you want to work on mastercam. Whatever you do, i would suggest spending a bit more to make comfort a priority if you plan on using the software a lot. hope this helps

set those HSS drills aside and buy Carbide drills with through spindle coolant holes if your machine supports TSC. In that size they wont be extremely expensive. Pecking in general wears tooling out very quickly with all the entry's into the material so if you must peck try to make them as large as possible while still removing the chips, on a .052 dia drill i would think you could peck deeper than .015, but if the carbide drills are reasonable priced i would go that route since it would probably do it much better than hss. If you are in a bind and cant wait on tooling or have other reasons like rpm limitations or something else i understand but if there are not other limiting factors i would go Carbide for the drills and if used properly they can be more cost effective over time than those HSS drills.

also, you probably already know this but the C-plane or construction plane is what the Transform mirror mirrors about, so make sure you were not in like a Front Construction plane because i can imagine that would flip your part 180 if your part was in a top plane but you mirrored everything over front for example. that may not be the problem but just double check the C-plane anyways since its easy to overlook sometimes.

no that sounds like something abnormal happened. I would restart your computer and try again or something because that is not new functionality and the transform toolpath and the mirror functions work the same for me in mastercam 2018 and mastercam 2019.

This guy https://www.easydnc.com/forum/repeatative-drip-feeding-issue.php seems to have the same problem, the last suggestion made was to turn on the "Wait for XOn" and no responses after that so if you are lucky maybe that will be the fix. That settign is just a checkbox in cimco if you want to give it a try, I dont know much about it though but if i was in your shoes i thing it would be worth trying if nothing else seems to work. that setting in cimco is under DNC setup on the Transmit page. I hope this helps, if it does please let us know so I can keep this in my bag of tricks.

thats what i was thinking lol, i would have already tried that suggestion on my machine rather than asking him to clarify since i could probably test quicker than typing up the second question, but that is just me.

could that be micro lift distance causing the .0001 - .001" movements you described? i cant think of how you would get helixes since the toolpath stays down in z but maybe micro lift distance is causing this? you could try setting micro lift to 0 to see if they go away.

only the 3d surface high speed finishing offer tilt, the Surface high speed roughing only give us Trim and not holder tilting. Lucas, Do you have the Multi-axis addon for mastercam? Mastercam Multi-axis will do what you asked easily. Edit: i just seen you already posted that you figured it out with 3 to 5 conversion so nevermind and you must have the multi-axis after all and hopefully that did a good job for you.

You can do it right out of mastercam too. File --> Open in editor. Just have to make sure your Settings --> Config --> Start / Exit page is set to Cimco or Cimco Edit for the editor.

Do you still have that file from 2007 Lol. Good luck with your search's my friend!

I use a Quadro K4100M on my laptop and it works nicely in mastercam and i think i am running a pretty current driver. I just get them right off nvidia's website and i always choose whatever their Latest driver is and they always seem to work well. https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us But even with the proper driver if your nvidia control panel is auto selecting the wrong gfx card for use with mastercam then no matter what driver you install you will have issues so if you do have both an intel and nvidia gfx card or dual gfx cards on this system make sure you go into the nvidia control panel (right click on desktop and select the nvidia control panel), then go into Manage 3d settings and if you have an option to Auto Select the graphics card change that setting to Always use High performance graphics card. You may or may not have this option but systems that have both the intel and nvidia card should have an option in the nvidia control panel. They also have a topic on this in the mastercam.com Knowledge base if you want to learn more about what i am talking about just do a Search for GPU or a search for Enable Dedicated graphics and there is some detailed info on how to do what i just described listed in mastercam's knowledge base. I hope this helps

since you cant cut it like JLW showed in his video I think that I would use a Ball endmill since its not an extremely large chamfer and would prorably only require a few passes with a ball endmill anyways. I would not use a chamfer mill since it wont look correct in that area where the chamfer transitions from the face of the part to the OD so i would use a ball endmill to 3d/surface mill the chamfer. Sure it will be more passes than a chamfer mill but at least you can get very accurate results around where that radii transitions from the Face to the Od of that part. that is my opinion on this one and I would just use like a flowline with a Right side plane and tool axis control page set to C-axis. Or just cut everything possible with a chamfer mill and only use the ball endmill on that one specific area where the chamfer transitions from the face of the part to the od.

If you have dual graphics cards enable dedicated graphics for that graphics card or set the Nvidia control panel to use High performance graphics card instead of Auto Select. That is probably the problem

What i do that seems to make selecting over a solid easier is a quick ALT+S to unshade the solid (activates wireframe display mode) then select what i need and do an alt+s again to re-shade. That what i think makes selecting wireframe over surfaces or solids the easiest or even a CTRL+T to display translucent helps.

This method should work nicely: 1. Copy the Nesting Operation 2. In the copied nesting operation, click parameters, then Check out of the page to take you to the Nesting Results page 3. On the nesting results page, select Delete and delete only the profiles you do not want to run as shown in the image below 4. Post only the New nesting toolpath