Can not get it to work.

downloading this for 2017 tomorrow when I get back to work..

how about taking out your link geo and let mastercam make the rapids. Use conturing but with compensation set to off, no leadin or outs. depth inc and see if this is what you need..

While DNC is running, you can not delete program from the PC, or the machine will stop at the end of the last block in memory.. This includes turning your computer off while DNCing. The machine will run exactly the same as if you where running the program from the machine memory.

In general Fanuc machines come with a very small amount of user available memory so DNC was made.. DNC is also known as drip feeding.. Because of memory limitation you can drip feed very large programs ( larger than the machines memory). Clever software downloads a chunk of program to the machine for execution. In the background the software is downloading the next part of the program. As soon as one part program is finished it is deleted from the machine memory and the background program is placed in memory to run, again the software starts downloading the next chunk. This continues till the whole program is finished.. Very clever bit of software work..

Just started migrating to MCAM2017, and now this active report wont work anymore..keep getting this alarm, or viewer just hangs.

would love to, but they were running it last month with the solids icons at the top..

we are running 4 seats of mastercam. 2 seats are mcx-8, and will shortly be upgraded to mcx 2017. 2 seats are mcx-5 and will be staying that way, for the forseable future, as this is the workers choice. Now to my problem. In mcx-5 the operators would both like the solids icons moved from the left side, up to the top bar. We can do this by hand everytime we open mastercam, but surely there is a way of getting this to stick. Everytime we open Mcx-5 the solids choice is back on the left hand side. I have tried changing the config file, and the mtm file , but wont stick.. PLEASE help

I will have a chat with our dealer. Not till after my holiday..

I'm getting a failure message when we try to use the simulator.. It says we dont have a licence, but this worked in MCX9. We use this function a lot. Because of the way our machine is setup, we seriously need this simulator to work.. Why has it been removed, and must we now pay for this option. We produce complicated 5 axis parts, hence the need for a simulator. Anyone able to answer, or is it a setup problem.. Have searched the form but to no avale.

just made massive foopa.. Used migrate tool.. everything up the spout..

I was dreading that answer Ron Branch.. The person who wrote these macros had not structure to his programs.. Oh well, reprogram it is then..

all the fanuc lathes I have worked on do support this intersection function..

hope this explains better.

The company a friend works for, has bought a Haas lathe. They had only fanuc controlls before this, so this macro problem never apeared. Is there a solution for this on a haas.. you cannot program a known position approach with "A" you cannot use an "A" on the same line as "x" and "Z" .. hope you can see what I am trying to do.. Starting on the face of a part drive along at A90 to unknown point then drive to a given point at A60. there by letting the controll determin where the intersection point is.. code G42G1X[#4-1]Z-[#13-0.2] G1A90 G1X[#3-[2*[#13-0.15]]]Z0.15A60 G1G40Z2 hope somebody can help.

Thank you Günther, you do a brilliant job. Will we be able to model our own fixturing for this app, and what format will it have to be?

cheers guy. I will try that tomorrow at work. JP you wrote that both the tool and holder are on the cut layer? is this just a small mistake on your part or should the holder be on the nocut level.

I've got this alarm coming up when trying to produce a custom tool in tool manager mcx8. Any one able to help. Have checked the drawing far too many times. Inside the mcx8 file it works with no problems, but when I export the dxf, for importing into tool manager, I get this message..

have you tried moving the stop op, down one space at a time and regenerating the op..

we have to do a clean install for our second language. I have English, the rest have German, so the rest have to wait several months after me to get that hands on the latest version. LOL

Where is the migration function for mastercam 2017. I am looking forward to having a play with the new software.

We use Solid layout. This gives you sectional views within mastercam..

when you have all your levels named how you like them. Right click in level manager, and choose save named levels. Then you can allways import these into any mcam file. They are saved as .CSV format.

I create a line pependiculare to a point, then click, change direction twice. You dont get one line, you get 2, but they are of equal length about a point..

Thank you for all the effort you have put in to this active report sheet.. My tool list is not pulling in the feedrate. Mcamx-8, we are running metric here. When I preview the list feedrate comes in as inch per minute. But brings absolutely nothing in the finished report. Only feedrate, all other data comes in super--