MayDay It was a solid to begin with. I put it on the ftp site in the MCX2 files. Named Bread pan.mcx if anyone wants to look. Ball nose. I will try waterline. John,I'm trying the parallel steep. Can you change direction from up and down to back and forth. Kannon will try to create a boundry after I try waterline. Yes I'm lost. Thanks everyone for the help!!!

I'm doing a part that looks like a small bread loaf pan with 2 holes in the bottom. It goes from a .38" radius in the corners at the too to a .13" radius at the bottom in the corners. Plus .13" radius all around the bottom. With 13 degree draft. I filled the holes with surfaces. I did a surface rough pocket tool path to rough it out. But now can't figure out how to finish it. The rough pocket has 19 drive surfaces. I tried surface flowline and surface finish contour. flowline didn't like all the surfaces and finish contour tried to cut inside and outside?

Dazz I'm with G-code, I have 3 sessions of MC open ,1 pro-e session and open office. Plus emastercam mozilla and XM. Duel screens and all. Sometimes it sounds like my 'puter is fixing to fly away because of the internal fan(go figure). Only trouble I was having is when I would sometimes close a session of MC I would get the unhandled exception error. The link Dave sent Hardmill to seems to have fixed that.

Thanks Colin, I must be slow. I tried and tried yesterday and couldn't seem to get it to work. Works today. Either I just didn't see it work before or...?? Thanks again

Is there a hot Key for End button in the chaining menu? There is a line under E but I cant find a hot key that will make it work.

quote: I thought he meant he needed a chair to reach the spindle That's what I was thinking before scrolled down and looked at the link. I just knew it was going to be a link to a lazyboy or something. I use a chair or 5 gallon bucket all the time to reach the backside of a tombstone. Thad are those worth the money? Always wanted to try one.

Rick, Teh 2nd question has been asked before. I think they said no, but do a search

Tried that but it still makes a error log.

How do I turn error log off. Every time I post it produces an error log which I do not need.

Have a HP with fx1500m and it seems to work great.

How do I put comp on surface finish flow line.

Yes I'm talking about the part on the machine. I need the distance between the XYZ moves to be less. Just so you know I'm doing a tapered ID cylinder.

I am using surface finish flowline to bore a taper surface. 1.0625+/-.0005 with 32 finish. I am using a 2 flute iscar multimaster tool with a .04 radius. I have the scallop height set to .0002". The finish in Z is almost a 32 but you can see lines every 10 degrees or so where is updates the tool path. It looks almost like there are small flats. Where can I go in and change how often on a arc the tool path updates?

I got the same thing as you did Randy.

I open cimco and it tells me demo version has expired??

In control Definition manager. pick post. post should come up with a do not sign. save definition and it will turn to a green check.

Cool I did everything right except selecting top and bottom for check surfaces. Thanks for the help.

I have a surface created and am trying to use flowline. But having to learn on the fly.

I'm trying to figure the best way to put in a taper hole. Mat'l = Silicon Bronze Angle= 21 degrees 24 min small end= .650" Large end= 1.062"+/-.0005 length of taper= 1.120 One of the main problems I only have .06" past taper to bottom of blind hole. Plus part is a casting , very odd shape. Would be very hard to fixture in a lathe. I'm afraid if I tried to circle interpolate with a taper endmill that I would pull the part out because of side pressure.

But doesn't your WCS always have to be TOP. Then rotate in your planes. And set the offset number in tool plane and construction plane.

Open MCXStart. That is the mastercam editor. When you go to open there it defaults to .nc files. You can copy a shortcut of this out of C:McamX2-MR2commoneditorsmastercamMCXSTART.exe

Thanks for all the help. Finally found out by accident. tools / Options in mastercam editor. Uncheck "open files maximized" and " Start Maximized". Now it opens in monitor 2. This is sweet!! Thanks everyone!

I have the editor on a shortcut and it opens to the right monitor. If I open the editor 1st then post code , it will work correctly. Otherwise it opens on top of mastercam.

I have 2 monitors now. I am running an ATI ( sorry James but it works for now) card. I can get almost everything to work except when the editor comes up posting code. When the same editor ( Mastercam ) does setup sheets it goes to the 2nd monitor just like I have it set up to do. But when I post code the editor goes right on top of mastercam. How do I make it go to the other monitor. I have tried moving it over there then closing like everything else. but it just won't stay put. Other than that this is sweet!

Long story short, Before I came to work where I am now I worked in h@ll. Worked there 20 years. The 1st few years I worked there, this guy worked there also. he went away. After I left the company, he came back to that company. I had left my home town to get away from that place. Being that I had worked there so long I had friends that still worked there. A couple of years ago I went back to H@ll to vist some friends for the first time in 6 years. He was talking then about running cracked copies. Then..... Yesterday, Our machine supplier ( who has nothing to do mastercam) asked if they could bring another one of their customers in to see the horizional they sale working. Yes H@ll has returned. A real good friend who took over my job when I left, 2 other people I didn't know and this idiot. And yes Thad he had a large flash drive that he bragged he always carried around with him with the software on it.