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Chally72

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  1. For holemaking toolpaths, this is done right from the Toolpath Hole Definition panel where you select the entities- just right click on where you want to make the change: Points that received edits will show the pencil icon in the first column:
  2. A major impediment to doing so- anyone that had previously set up a specific start angle parameter would have their helix bore shift clocking if they regenerated.
  3. Well, Jake got to it before me and did a great job listing out some of the reasons to use Deburr rather than 2D chamfer in contour. The latter is a 2.5D wireframe take, and the former is a fully model aware toolpath with a lot of smarts built in specifically for breaking edges. Don't forget about the options on the advanced page, where you can mess with the minimum edge angle necessary for it to "Find" sharp edges to break when set to auto, along with some other controls to filter out edges under a length threshold, and to target specific Z zones:
  4. It definitely is not a simple lift- If you look at the spun-off 3 Axis Deburr for 2025, this is outputting arcs and lines, not just linearized segments, so that it has a wider availability to existing/older 3 axis posts and machines. This was a large component in the development of this toolpath.
  5. Yes- all arcs are linearized when using Convert to 5
  6. Went to answer with this, scrolled down through the replies and found Aaron already here.....again....
  7. This is intentional. If you left-click on the Toolpath node of an expanded toolpath, it launches into Backplot, and if you right-click, it launches into Verify. To avoid this behavior, right-click somewhere other than this line:
  8. For the Beta period there's some licensing hoops to make it available. If you want to test it, please reach out and we'll get you sorted to use it during the Beta cycle. Dan Parry, the product owner, posted about it in the official forums- you can contact him through [email protected].
  9. This button, starting in 2024, also takes you directly to the Simulation settings page and Stock choice in MGS, which controls both Verify and and Simulate
  10. There are two things that will help retain the "one machine group, multiple setup" flow preference in the near term with new Machine Group Setup: 1. Multiple ways to override the Stock page selected stock for what you actually want to use in Simulation. In 2024 you have the "stock model operation" override talked about earlier in this thread, where selecting a stock model op as the first op in a selection to launch into simulation with will automatically apply that stock model as an override no matter what is selected elsewhere. Also in 2024 you have the Stock Override choice in the Simulation options last tab of MGS, where you can override the stock permanently and just point to a file, solid, etc. 2. In 2025, the ability to make Workholding items or Groups Active or Inactive. This means that I can do things like select a bunch of solids and group them and call them Setup 1 and Setup 2, for example, then turn off Setup 2. This has the end effect of passing only the stuff that's active (Setup 1) into verify/simulation. This way you don't have to keep on adding/deleting workholding to support a multi-setup flow- you just toggle between your organized fixture sets. This is trying to take what you used to do via level organization, (IE, stuff all of setup 1 fixturing on a single level, all of setup 2 on a single level, etc) and divorce level management of individual solids from the act of organizing and simulating groups of fixturing. These are a few immediately visible steps along the path that the team is taking to make MGS actively support and encourage single-machine-group, multi-setup flow.
  11. Always fun to see what tilting towards extreme efficiency and ultimate muscle memory for a power user looks like Very early on in my career I was at a shop that handled things similarly to the "one file per op" approach. I cannot imagine being shackled by that in the year 2024!
  12. This is the flow I always taught as well.
  13. Yes, new to 2024! One of my favorite new features and instantly something I can't live without.
  14. If you look at the Update releases, generally Mastercam has been moving from a small number of large Updates, to spreading these out over a larger number of updates which can be delivered faster. This means that, among other things, we can sync up to things like file format changes for importers for different software like Solidworks/etc closer to when those other products release, rather than waiting months and months for the next Update to drop.
  15. ^this 2024 scales 5ax path vectors to a unit vector before inserting into the NCI to avoid some of these rounding errors throughout the process, and vector mode will further reduce the possibility of fuzz/jitter.
  16. That "Stock Plane" should really be labeled something like "Transformation plane....don't touch this unless you have a really good reason to do so"
  17. Here are two videos that go in-depth on how to utilize in-process stock models and how to set up the planes to move between Op setups, machines, vises, etc:
  18. What you're seeing is the Graphical Linking Planes added to all holemaking toolpaths in Mastercam 2024, which provide graphical push-pull planes for holemaking linking parameters. See the video below for information. The graphical plane is huge and is taking up your entire screen, which is why you get that blue tint and can't see what's going on. If you zoom out your view you'll see the plane. The plane is supposed to be sized so that it is slightly bigger than your hole size (if set to incremental) or hole set X and Y extents (if set to absolute). What is your hole selection here? Note if you don't want to interact with these planes, you can turn them off with the Graphical Elements toggle button in the top bar of the toolpath. Here's another video from the rollout:
  19. There have been several causes that have the same end effect- an incorrect (bloated) entity count. It is not falling on deaf ears
  20. Right now, the new Machine Group Setup flow is, as you pointed out, structured around one setup per machine group. I typically work with one machine group and setup flips in toolpath groups within it. Because of that, I would continue using the pre-2023 workflow for those situations. Today in the new Machine Group Setup flow, there's not much incentive to switch your flow if you're a power user with complex product, because all of these changes so far are aimed at easing and guiding single-setup experience, rather than the super-efficient flow we've all fallen into. In the future, this Machine Group Setup will expand in two ways: -Give reasons/benefits for you to set up master model, workholding and multiple stock. IE, make toolpaths look at these and make better decisions upfront so you have to spend less time repeatedly telling each toolpath the same thing. -Expand the capabilities available to you in a single Machine Group. Think, handling of tombstones, stock flips, etc, to move that power-user flow into the new Machine Group experience.
  21. I'll take a crack at answering blind- Your pattern result and the curve it has taken on is a reflection of the pattern selection and curve geometry. I'm guessing you're using Parallel or Guide, and you've chosen an edge shorter than the part width as the curve to stay parallel to. There are a few controls that affect how the pattern echoes out from the chosen curves- If Guide cut pattern- Turn on Straighten Cuts on boundaries on the Machining Geometies subpage under Cut Pattern Turn on Extend open input curves on the Guide Curve- Advanced subpage under Cut Pattern If Parallel cut pattern- Turn on Extend edge curve on the Parameters For Surface Edge Handling subpage under Cut Pattern. With Unified and multiaxis paths especially, there are so many options and ways to set up your pattern and trimming, it helps to just post the file if at all possible so that we can offer up some examples and avoid guessing about how the path is set up!
  22. Using Save Some, change the Save-As type to Parasolid (the native kernel Mastercam uses). This removes all Mastercam-specific items such as viewsheets/etc, while leaving the entities intact and untranslated, and the file can be opened directly in Mastercam. When saving out to STEP and reimporting, in the background you're changing the data format from parasolid to STEP then back to parasolid, which can induce translation errors.
  23. Hey Tim, Process Hole works by matching Solid Hole forms (and segments of a hole) between the template file and the part file you're using Process Hole in. Because of this, the selections you make in a template file need to be tied to Solid Hole operations, or they're just ignored by Process Hole as invalid processes for a template file. (This helps you use any part file as a valid template file, and filter out any toolpath groups or operations that aren't part of the template process you would want to use.) This solid hole selection distinction can be subtle and it's one of the things we're working to improve in Process Hole. So, simple change to make it all work. Here in your template file, you've single-clicked and selected solid faces (no intelligence) for the features the toolpath is acting upon: Instead, double-click to select the actual solid hole (intelligence, knowledge of the solid operation and all segments of the hole). Take a look at the differences in the Toolpath Hole Definition labels and name. The Type is now signified as (Solid Hole) and the name of the feature is the name of the solid hole operation.
  24. Here's my favorite little example of this- a simple 3 axis path with a ball tool traversing across a variable fillet where a blend or morph might be used. If I was looking at this like I usually do, I'd see those blue lines and I might as a programmer instinctually say "This path is no good, I have to go fix this or play around with parameters here." But, if I'm looking at the green in the image below, (actual tool contact point,) I'm getting a very different perception of the path....IE, leave it alone, it was fine to begin with!
  25. I don't have Aaron's file, but I'd guess that the "jankiness" is the tilt being applied to the tool/holder to avoid the walls as the tool pivots through the corner. Remember that when you're looking at the blue lines, you're looking at the tip position of the tool, and NOT the actual contact point of the tool flute to the surface. The Collision control method may be modifying the tilt, which will pivot the tool about the center of the ball, not about the tip, and it'll swing the blue lines up and over and make them appear uneven. If you plotted out the actual contact point (or had a way to view it, which you do in Simulator in 2024 and will in Advanced Toolpath Display in 2025), you'd see perfectly crisp stepovers still. And the examples farther up the thread were in some cases looking at the pattern before collision control was applied, meaning the blue tip still represents the true stepover at this stage. If you've ever calculated a toolpath using an accelerated finishing tool, this disparity between where the blue lines fall and what the tool is actually doing is even greater, since the tool effective radius centerpoint does not fall along the tool centerline, and small changes in tool flute contact can create major disparities in pass to pass tip position visuals. The "gut check" we get by looking at the blue lines for uniformity becomes less and less valuable as a measure of the quality of the path.

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