I have put in a request for support to MLC-CAD.

Hasp is set to hasp, hasp not found shows at the bottom of the hasp.exe window, everything is blank, nothing happens when I click read.

Yes, running stand alone sim. When i run hasp x or nethasp x from utilities from x6, x7, or x8, it doesn't see my sim. Really confused here.

Took my sim home over the weekend, installed X8, renamed nethasp.ini to nethasp_original, copied nethasp.ini from X7 to X8, all is good. Come in to work, do the same thing, X6, X7,X8, all give No Sim Found. Uninstall X8 as before, now X6 and X7 give No Sim Found, so no Mcam at all now. Can't figure out what I did wrong.

Thanks guys, I will try some of these suggestions.

Using USB hasp. Did a system restore bact to yesterday and am back up and running on x6 amd x7.

Just installed X8. Now when I try to start any version of Mcam, I get No Sim found error. Uninstalled X8, still get same error. Any have any idea what I could have messed up. Dead in the water at the moment.

Amen to that.

The tool deflection and gouging by a 13 times dia 1/4 dia ballnose end mill going into a .125 corner radius with a .125 fillet radius are my main worries.

I tried to explain these things to our estimator and the person who handles this customer, neither of whom have ever had to actually make anything in their life. 40 years of doing this stuff and still trying to educate the uneducated.

Thanks for everyone's input on this.

Thank you. I put a file named die-cavity1.mcx-6 on the ftp site.

Thank you sir, I may have a question or 2 along the way.

I believe the material till be aluminum. Here are 2 pics of the 2 parts that work together. The cavity has a .250 ball nose end mill drawn in for reference.

Tolerance on this part and the mating part are a profile of .020. The gap between the 2 is .016. There is actually enough tolerance that if you used up most of it on each piece, they wouldn't even go together.

Material is unheatreated A2. No draft angle, this is a vertical wall. All we have available here is cat40 VMC's, no EDM. Not really looking forward to this.

I have been presented with a draw die assembly for programming. I will start off by saying I have never really done much tool and die work in my career. The female part off the die is a curved cavity 3.4 deep with a .125 fillet radius in the bottom of it. I have attached a pic of this area. We only have 3 axis 40 taper vmc's available for this. My Question to you guys is, will it be feasible to finish this area with a .250 ball nose 3.4 deep without it pushing off too much. To me it seems this area my be better suited for an EDM operation. The gap between the 2 parts of the die is only .016.

I did make the mistake of not installing in the program files (x86) folder. Downloaded the latest hasp.exe, still no luck. I'm at a loss as to how to fix this.

Thanks, will talk to the guys at MLC-Cad.

When I look in the registry, I see cnc software, but no mastercam x4 listed. Hasp is set to H.

Will X4 run on Windows 7 64 bit? Got a new box, but when I try to start X4, I get no sim found. I know, new computer, but not up to date on maintenance, don't get me started on that. Do I need different drivers? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks taperlength, that did the trick. Took my laptop mouse and worked just fine. F'ing Microsoft crap.

Just got a new workstation. On my old box, rolling the mouse wheel would zoom in and out in Mastercam. On this new box, rolling the mouse wheel only scrolls out, no matter which way you roll the wheel. I haven't been able to find a setting that will change this. Any help would be appreciated.

We do right angle head work here a lot. Mainly drilling small holes in aerostructure parts for pilot holes and such. Also some light milling from time to time. We have a couple of Makino horizontals with 5th axis rotary tables. The post we have handles this very well and very easy. For right angle work, our right angle head must be pointing in the x axis positve direction. In the misc reals there are 3 of these that are used, one is the angle of the r/a head which is always -90 degrees. This is the direction the post supports. Anything other than -90 does not work. The next misc real is the distance from the centerline of the spindle to the end of tool being used. The last is a retract distance in absolute for the tool to move to in between ops. This post outputs canned drill cycles along with the appropriate G19 plane change code. You might need to talk to your reseller for this. We got this done throught our local dealer.

Is this on a table/table config machine? If so, Mastercam doesn't do a very good job of showing the actual motion on the machine. In your example, if this is on say a Haas trunnion, the tool will reach the end of the cut, retract out, the part will rotate back to the start with little or no movement of the tool, and start the next cut. A Head on head machine may do just what backplot and verify show. Using gcode verification software such as Vericut is the best way to see just what the machine motion will be. I have had times when Mcam shows a collision such as yours and not collide on the machin, as well as not show a collision and have one on the machine. Again, Vericut can be your best friend in these situations.