if you are referring to verify there is a check box on the home tab for Displaying wireframe. i cant tell if you are talking about mach sim or verify but if its verify it might just be that little check box since bounding box is typically lines or arcs.

I don't know how long you have been using Mastercam Gracjan but your Mastercam knowledge is vast to say the least. its impressive, keep up the good work buddy.

I have never turned anything using a mill like what you described but there are a bunch of videos on youtube showing people doing this very same thing and it is interesting to watch. I think that is a very cool solution. I don't think you could use CSS, just standard rpm and i also wonder if it might cause premature spindle wear but its still really cool idea and is interesting to watch some of the parts people have done that way.

lol i had to google it too one you said that, Im not sure who that is but it must be someone popular with how many pics show up, that bowl-Cut is hilarious though.

Yea that is what causes this, either download the Latest driver off the gfx card manufacturers website or Enable dedicated Graphics for mastercam through the Nvidia or AMD control panel and that should fix it. PDF attached with detailed instructions GPU.pdf

Nice job BIGRIG, sounds like you already got it fixed up with 1 surface but for future reference the Surface Finish Contour (found in the right click menu of the tool path manager) does a great job on undercuts and does not follow flowline data so it often works much better for me when i am dealing with Multiple surfaces on an undercut feature. So if you get this problem again or are unable to turn multiple surfaces into one just use surface finish flowline (which is similar to waterline but supports undercuts unlike waterline) then that might be a better suited toolpath.

When you activate stock it is switching the path to the Stay Inside Strategy on the tool Control Containment boundary page, Try Setting that Toolpath control page to "compensate to outside" and set the "total Offset distance" to the ~ diamater of your cutter. That should fix it i believe.

Yea this is possible and is easy to do through the attributes manager, the image below shows the screen shot of where to activate these setting, i expect you will figure out how it works but if you have any questions let us know,

My recents load really quickly actually, i would say within seconds. Are your files stored on a server and is there delay when you click on that directory that they are located in? do you see the same results by using the recent list in the Quick access toolbar (the little down arrow next to the folder icon in the top left of mastercam) as you do off the File Open recent list? I think maybe it could be a delay with the files its looking for if i had to guess or maybe it cant find something and is hanging up, i think i would try right clicking in the recent list and clearing all the recent and see if when it starts to build a new recent list if that new list loads faster.

I got a new one to add, this ones only for Mastercam 2019! When using Divide / Delete you can Drag your Mouse to trim multiple entities at once.

You might be able to limp by with turning off hardware acceleration in the mastercam advanced configureation, bu thats just a band-aid type fix and will kill performance, the best option is what gcode recommended and get a system that meets the minimum requirements.

Morph will try to Drive the center of cutter on what you are morphing from/to but you can change that through a setting called margins. First the "Type" found on cut paramaters must be set to "Full, Start and end on exact edges" which you already have set, Then from there you can hit the + next to cut parameters and you should see a margins page. You can either Add the cutter radii to those start and end values or can check the include cutter radii button which will then shift what the toolpath is morphing from/to by the radii of the tool. I hope this makes sense. Pic below shows the check box that should give you what you need.

On a side note, There are Companies that Specialize in this type of work. <My company has ordered Machine simulations through both Postability and In-House solutions and they both do excellent work on Machine simulations. I am sure you can learn to do this yourself with some effort but i wanted to make you aware that there are places that specialize in this type of work if you ever decide to let experienced machine builders take on this task. Sometimes i find some things are better left to the people that do this on a daily basis but if you have a lot of these to build or have the time and ability then i expect you can certainly get it done yourself but i wanted to at least make you aware that there are places that can quote out this service.

I believe all of the generic ones included with mastercam can be edited. First i suggest Making a backup of your existing default Machine simulation folder/files which should be located Here: C:\Users\Public\Documents\shared Mcam Version\MachineSimulation\MachSim

Jesse with the Mastercam / CNC software team recently made a video and here is a link and he does a good job showing the process. video link below

After I read through this again I see you are using a stock model for this task so my idea will not work for Boolean since that tool only works with solids. If you can make a solid and not use the stock model / STL that would be ideal in my opinion.

It sounds to me that you are looking to remove one solid from another and if that is the case mastercams Boolean found on the solid tab should do the trick. Create your vacuum block as a Solid, Place your finish part into that solid exactly where it will sit, then Boolean remove the Tool body (the part) from the vacuum block that will be holding the part. Make sure to either copy your original solid first onto another level or turn on the non-associative option that Boolean has so your original part does not disappear.

Hi Dan, Did you turn on Perpendicular entry on your entry page, I see your G41 on an arc move, make sure the Perpendicular entry is on and that will probably take care of the problem.

Try this, in verify go to File --> Options --> check 5-axis simulation engine. If that fixes the problem there is another setting next to that setting that you can check called "always use 5-axis engine" I think that will fix this problem

Dynamic Milling, allows for the most powerful Toolpath chaining, supporting Machining regions, avoidance, air and other useful chaining features. Dynamic contour however is very limited where it only lets you pick a chain and then you tell the toolpath how much stock the chain has on it with the Stock thickness setting. So it not really designed for Pocket milling even though its possible to do a lot of cool stuff the wrong way and still get good results since with a pocket you might have more stock on one wall than on another. Normally i only use dynamic contour when i have the same amount of material on the entire chain, which for me is sometimes on like a wall of a forging or a casting. For most applications i use Dynamic mill because either my part does not have the same amount of stock on all walls or i want to do a pocket and then for finishing i apply a second toolpath with finish settings. Yes, its 2 toolpaths instead of just 1 but i get the correct results without having to lie to the toolpath or the stock thickness setting. Here is something else to consider, lets say we are making a round part, a simple Circle, but we are cutting that circle out of a rectangular stock. Using a Dynamic contour you would have to make the stock thickness very large to get it to cut from the rectangle without overloading the cutter and even then you will get lots of air cuts. whereas doing this task with a dynamic mill is ultra simple since all we need to do is pick a machining region as the stock and then avoid the circle and our results will be very efficient with no air cuts once so ever. I hope these explanations help.

Do you have Perpendicular entry turned on for the toolpath? Normally i need to use that setting to get cutter comp to activate on a line move since you can not activate Cutter comp on an arc and that path may be entering with an arc depending on the settings applied. i would check the Perpendicular entry on the lead in/out page if its not checked and see if it'll run

what i do is I always create my own backups prior to updates so there is no risk of losing anything. As long as you keep your posts and tool libraries in the generic location (which is Here: C:\Users\Public\Documents\shared Mcam2018) then if you simply backup this entire folder (right Click and hit Send to compressed zip folder is how i back things like this up then place that zip folder somewhere you wont lose it) then there is no risk of losing anything if something goes wrong or if i unknowingly make some kind of updating mistake during the migration. I luckily almost never need those backups, but the one time you do need them you will be very happy that you spend the 30 extra seconds to make the backups ahead of time. Another reason that this might be a good idea is if you manage to accidentally cross link your 2019 into the 2018 shared folder for the posts you could un-intentionally update your posts in the 2018 folder since Mastercam 2019 will detect that they are not up to date and try to update those files which i have ran into before when opening up old files that are still linked to the old directory. I hope this helps in for future updates

I would create Letters instead of Create Note, if you create the bar code as letters instead of note then from there you can use the Drafting Cross Hatch to fill those letters in.

I respectfully disagree with this opinion, A lot has changed in the last 10 yrs in manufacturing, and i expect the next 10 yrs to come with have just as many changes and technological improvements as the last 10 yrs has. Everyone and their brother is working on the Latest and greatest of everything, we are always trying to improve everything and even though we do not know what types of crazy new tooling, machines, Software, etc. is coming in the future my opinion is the world is not slowing down and the drastic changes that had happened over the last 10 yrs will be just as drastic over the next 10. On a side note i recently seen a video the Tool Vendor Emuge provided on their new threading technology called Punch Tapping which makes me wonder if the way we have been tapping holes for the past decade will remain the same method for threading holes in the future.

There is a checkbox on that toolpath called "allow Small Steps" That i think you will need to use, should be found on the Rough Plunge Parameters page below where you set the stepover.