who is Alex from us two? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think none of us or both BTW ,cool Norway team . What is it ,paintball ?

Privet ,Alex !

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My point is in most of cases you need no splines at all let say you have a cone trimmed with tilted plane . Now you have resulting geometry -ellips ,means spline but you can use arc of the parent cone instead -for swarf it is the same ,but geometry is cleaner . As for recreating geometry I use different way . I break spline to segments with very tight tolerances .0.002 mm I have lines now .I change color of big lines Small lines I convert to arcs with the new color . After that I delete first color . Now I have clean accurate geometry . But in most of cases I only recreate parent geometry and that`s all Collin . Thanx for your words . HTH BR

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I installed it and play with it from time to time but I decided that we will wait till sp1 at least

I never move WcS I only change tool plane /c-plane My WCS is always top

I make them inside Mastercam . I define thread mill as a slotmill so I can see threads

Iskander- it does this in verify and in simulation as well, but only between passes in the curve5x op, not between ops.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Disable retract ,leave only clearence . I saw this thi8ng couple of times ,it can be bug . Yet I never informed QC ,cause i can not recreate it in X2 Are you sure you are cutting part -read code . In my case it was only simulation problem-both veirfy and backplot .the machine code was OK!

In case you selected wrong machine/control ,post configuration this what will happen in the Backplot . Cauuse backplot is machine dependable

Nice

if the absolute clearance moves are not far enough away and you have to move the model in Z it could cause problems. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have created my custom holders . I have a folder where I keep them . Every time I write new part I merge existing fixture or create the new one So I know my absolute clearance moves value . This stile of work helps me to check my toolpath - in backplot I see if the holder touchs the fixture or not . Before veryfy I boolian add my fixture and blank part into one solid and use it in verify . I define my tools together with holder as a tool with a step in diameter and actual tool length . So in backplot I see a tool as tool and the holder I use custom levels file so everything set according to the level names and they are always the same one. I know them by heart and tipe them in level bar without calling level manager . I use tool libraries . All set nice and helps me avoid crashes using only backplot and verify .

Iskander: What is that shadow I see on your screen image? I know what it looks like. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is to shoot those who run and pushes to pash violently and the love and frolic . Fot their personal safety . Mick ,just say I am not an idiot !

Open all levels . Select al entities That`s what I do. The worst part is when you rotate or mirror the part You need to change cplanes ,chains directions , and chain sides on some of toolpathes . Try to avoid it BR

The answer is yes ,repost after transform . I always write my programs in incremental ,so every move I make takes me seconds . If you have 300 absolute toolpathes I fell siorry for you After transform and regen check carefully in backplot your toolpathes to be sure you moved everything properly . HTH

Just create the rectangle with fillets, break one of the lines, chain the contour at that start point, and use the change at point to get it to work... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Colin ,may be short video ?

What am I doing wrong? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dealing with idiots . Although I know the answer ,you will never get it . And to say truth ,never in my life I was needed to drop feed in such a drastic way . There are better ways to deal with it . Still you will not get this from me :shrug:

For quick reordering .

I want to announce I am stopping the project . 1 . I wrote the letter to Jay requesting him to delete the appropriate FTP directory . 2 . I requested him to delete the thread . 3 .There will not be X2 tricks . The reasons : 1.v9 tricks start to loose importance and outdated . 2. There are other things to do in life . 3.If this was a fate of Limericks thread ,it was updated recently yet it was deleted ,so let it be LIDT thread fate too . 4.You have some ****ing expert now , in other words I just don`t give a damn .

I guess I just don't understand why there is such a long delay on something that seems like such basic functionality. It's very hard for me to see all the effort made to create Feature Based Machining and Mastercam In SolidWorks and see something like this not implemented. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For a man that had not figured out how to use spreadsheet these are harsh remarks .

Neilj . You are an idiot . Who asked you about Solidedge ? If you don`t know the answer ,just keep quiet . bassn_07 I use Mastercam Solids for everything . Just no need to use Solidworks if you do not model very complex things . From the other hand ,Solidworks models can be imported without problems too, In X3 if you have both on the same computer than you can import file with histtory

I convert solids to surfaces ,colour them different colours and select them by colour . This way I can easily control what I am doing

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I want to say that I like it so much ! I tried STL model some 50 megs and some million and the half triangles . I was not able to use it in X2 and now I have this surface mesh entity ,make a bbox ,define stock and make rough operation and all in ten minutes . Superb ! Many thanks

I recently changed my post to support inverse time feed on my Haases Works grat .