We've had a Doosan Mill since September 2015 that replaced our outgoing Mazak V655/60. Several points about the machine - good and bad: The Good: Machine is rigid and can handle a big fat 4" OTM Drill pretty well. We have a Big Plus spindle and high rapid feed, which is nice and operates smoothly. Only 6000 RPM on that. The Bad: Well, Compared to the HAAS controller, its more of a pain in the arse to navigate the controller and setup tools. We've had some issues early on with the hardware of the machine itself: Several tool pots were causing the tool changer to stutter after a tool change when the arm was returning to origin. We currently are having issues with the 4th axis - it is not indexing to the machine home - it wants to index 5 degrees and automatically set it home from that point. I find it harder to self-program on that machine than a Mazak, plus it takes longer to setup tools. During face milling, when the tool indexer stops moving, the you can actually feel when the indexer stops, causing a small gouge in parts. Never have had a machine that does this. Other than that, I rank the Doosan a #3 in terms of ease of setup vs a Mazak and vs a HAAS.

Don't use mastercam tool manager. We create custom tools using mastercam itself. Always more than one way to do things.

Have had our VF-6 since 2009 or so, only had the spindle replaced once. And that machine hit an overpass. Its usually down once or twice a year.

If DXF still does not work, just try the .mcam file. I know for sure custom tools work off of the mcam file extensions.

Just tried that... what happens is when I enter G56 into the MDI, nothing happens. Entered g0 g56 g90 x0. y0. into MDI and the position's work home changed, but reset back to G54 after hitting reset. Same as when running programs. Guess its a lost cause =(

That's a possibility. Lemme try this and see what happens. Chances are, will most likely have to go by "Pilot Plant Supervisor 's" method

Machine was built 10 / 2008

Last week, our boss came to me and asked how do I change the position display screen on the HAAS VF-4 from G54 to G58 - I thought it was the offset page that he was talking about at first, but nope. I've tried MDI G58, that did not change anything at all. To be honest, I've never really used the position display for other work offsets when setting up a part - not that I needed it. Would anyone have any ideas? -JD

So.... My first question is how many of ya use G95 full time and not only for tapping? My current issue is, our Iscar rep suggested using IPR instead on drilling to maintain the ratio. So I turned on G95 in the Misc value table and when it posted out, the G95 was there, but I noted the feed rate remained at F8.88. Fairly sure that should be F.006, but I wanted to confirm this before I do anything. -JD

That would be me as well. I think you can work around that bu using attributes instead of expanding the color palette... And for the record, X9 is more stable than 2019. hands down. Also, tried the update but Mcam told me there were none. I'm thinking will need to manually update instead... ugh

Agreed. Crashed 2019 twice today. At least I had the sense to save my work before i did something I had a gut feeling mcam would crash. I was trying to verify a part and it was slllloooowwwww, so i closed the window, saved the part then tried shutting down mcam. that took about 2 mins >.< Won't matter to me if I go back to X9, won't have that problem because i've setup my quick access toolbar the same as X9 as well as my right mouse menu. I don't use a whole lot of options, but its nice that its there.

Well, not quite what I meant to ask. The question was more directed at the tool library itself - as in edit coolant there and be done in one click, not the operations.

Well - did some playing around with the custom tools... as is if left alone, M08 starts immediately before turning the spindle on: (T3 = 3/8 .375 90 DEG SPOT DRILL ) N40 (SPOT .10 HOLE) N45 M08 N50 G00 G91 G28 Z0. N60 G00 G91 G28 Y0. N70 T3 N80 M6 N90 S1528 M03 N100 G00 G54 G90 X1. Y0. N110 G43 H3 Z4. So, that is not where I want the M08 to start at. I changed the string to include "with" and it placed it at the end of the G54 string. Then I added "After" and the M08 showed up after the G43 string, which is where I want it. With that being said, I would have to change every tool we have - which is why we use the V9 option since it is much more simpler. With that being said, is there a way to modify every tool's coolant option in one click - as in do it once and be done without having to click at least a thousand times?

The one in mastercam or the post file? If the post file, what do I need to look for? Yes. Every tool we have is setup in V9. The question I have to ask: is there an easier way than going thru each individual tool to change the coolant style from V9 to the newer table? I figured someone might say that, for the time being, we've been adding the code manually. It's just a matter of remembering to code it M31 after M09

So, I'm kinda wondering this: Is there a way to add another IF statement to the coolant string without setting errors off when posting? Whats happening is we need M50 for thru coolant, yet M09 turns it off, but we need M31 to follow twice after that to blow coolant out of spindle, otherwise it makes a mess since it is a Kuraki and without M31 at tool change coolant gets blown everywhere. Kinda want to convert this: (T17 .375 LONG CARBIDE THRU COOL DRILL) N1630 (DRILL .375 THRU TO L SHAPED CHANNELS) N1640 T17 N1650 M06 N1660 S866 M3 N1670 G0 G90 G54 X.75 Y-2.8438 N1680 G0 G90 W0. N1690 G43 G0 H17 Z4. T24 M50 N1700 G83 G98 X.75 Y-2.8438 W-10.825 R-4.6 Q.5625 F4. N1710 X.75 Y2.8438 N1720 G80 N1730 M9 N1740 G0 G91 G30 Z0. W0. M19 N1750 G0 G91 G30 Y0. N1760 M30 into this: (T17 .375 LONG CARBIDE THRU COOL DRILL) N1630 (DRILL .375 THRU TO L SHAPED CHANNELS) N1640 T17 N1650 M06 N1660 S866 M3 N1670 G0 G90 G54 X.75 Y-2.8438 N1680 G0 G90 W0. N1690 G43 G0 H17 Z4. T24 M50 N1700 G83 G98 X.75 Y-2.8438 W-10.825 R-4.6 Q.5625 F4. N1710 X.75 Y2.8438 N1720 G80 N1730 M9 N1732 M31 N1734 M31 N1740 G0 G91 G30 Z0. W0. M19 N1750 G0 G91 G30 Y0. N1760 M30 Any ideas? This is what I have now for coolant code: if coolant$ <> 0 & coolant$ <> sav_coolant & sav_coolant, pbld, n$, sm09, e$ pbld, n$, scoolant, e$ sav_coolant = coolant$ if coolant$ = 1, sm09 = sm09_0 if coolant$ = 2, sm09 = sm09_1 if coolant$ = 3, sm09 = sm09_2 if op_id$ <> last_op_id, pstock if sav_mi9 = 1, workofs$ = sav_workofs -JD

Sorry about not getting back to you, I thought about doing that; but its very rare when we need to program rotations into the machine. When we do use them, its mainly for production runs on our mass production parts - which the program+drawing hasn't been changed in years. Make Mazatrol great again? I like mazatrol for simple things, that's where it shines. I've also experienced programming with mazatrol on not so simple products. JLW is correct, it has limitations because if you want to use a 1/8" mill for a .145 wide slot, mazatrol becomes fussy and you might have to use a smaller mill for it in order for the arc in to work and by the time you start making chips, your mastercam programmer had already programmed this part and then some.

I also program a Mazak Horizontal as well. I have everything I need in one post, rotations included, except the B axis is called out using mi10 - something I created myself. It's probably easier to post automatically, but I do like having control on the mi10 option as we don't always use complex rotations outside of the normal 0, 90, 180, 270 rotations. I do use planes for the rotations, the B axis doesn't automatically post them since I had a way of avoiding that. Everything normal, I don't use planes much, except if I have more than one work offset. I also converted an existing VMC post and made the needed mods for the horizontal, did a few tests to make sure the codes were right and that was it. I have zero issues posting / programming for the Mazak Horizontal. Everything is in top view for ease of flipping programs between our two VMC's.

Thanks Guys! I actually preferred having that checkbox due to the fact that it wouldn't let me check on holes along the OD for lathe side action drilling. At least it gives us the option of unchecking stuff.

Morning, I know this might seem like a silly question, but has anyone found this little checkbox called "Filter out duplicates" on any drilling cycle in mastercam 2019? I know 2018 has it, but it disappeared in 2019.... =\

I agree with this since we upgraded recently from a HDD to SSD

I keep mine default, except I use the right mouse button more often for the most common items I need. My other fellow programmers have theirs setup differently since they believe its faster (one of the reasons being computer illiterate).... /shrug.

Would the same be said for custom keys (in config) or is that part of the workspace file?

4-5 hours of continuous use then it'll crash.... for us at least. Yesterday alone it crashed on me 3x. Does anyone else have crashing issues? Also, our reseller seems to believe that installing new versions of mastercam should be done without any importing at all to reduce the number of issues, aka crashing, slowness, etc... Would that be true or is my reseller just talkin out of his butt? -JD

So, I did some research on Saturday and chatted with a friend. Is it possible that since Mastercam is programmed using Visual Basic, it is a memory hog due to the platform being used? That brings me to this: I'm currently running Win 10 - which I don't like and would very much rather be running Win 7, but that's out of my control. We upgraded our old pata HDD to a SSD and while windows itself loads fast, mastercam doesn't seem to care about the SSD and still loads the same as without the SSD. Also, performance declines after hours of using which I already posted about this, but another thought occurred to me: Would the slow performance of mastercam have anything to do with: It's just very annoying that we can't get a smooth working product 1: 16GB of ram ( I can go 64gb if I wanted to ) 2: Undo function's history adds up eats memory? For me, closing and re-opening is a PITA, but while it solves the issue somewhat, the slow performance returns sooner. Rebooting / restarting the computer seems to do the trick. I know the computer is strong enough to handle MC2019 in the processor, HDD, vidcard department, but I wonder if i'll see a difference in the memory upgrade by going from 16gb to 64gb or even 32gb... MY company's IT dept would say ah 16GB is good enough, but they don't work with mastercam like we do so I'm willing to part with some cash to do the upgrade myself. Does anyone else other than me have performance issues?

I apologize, JParis. I had no idea. Thanks. Several versions? The color palette crash for 2019 is new to me. I've never had an issue with colors crashing mastercam at anytime before 2018 =\ The crash you describe in the latter section has happened to me more than I can count in 2018 and a few times in 2019 for different reasons. I have to wonder if it was the hardware that runs on my PC... then again we'll never really know. Sometimes it was too late and yes my auto save saved something but I prob lost 2-4 mins worth of programming, which is better than an hour's worth. As a side note, i've been watching the memory allocation in windows task manager... and the longer you use mastercam the more memory is being used. I hate having mastercam paired with windows 10, I much prefer win 7, but whatever.