That's the exact impetus for going back in and expanding this vertically for 2024. Looking at your tool library through a keyhole is not great for visibility and speed and we wanted to improve this.

This one bugged me, too. We did a lot of work to expand and rearrange this tool page to give you guys better visibility into a larger chunk of the tool list and to actually use this space in 2024, and do things like get the tool #, length, and offset #'s all in one column with a one-after-another tab order so that it's easy to visually pick out when there's a difference or a problem between offset #'s. There are a bunch of controls that you don't see in this screenshot that can appear in some of that empty space when you do things like use an MT machine or other special scenarios, but we still ended up with what we think are some big visibility gains.

If you open up Groups, what do you see in there? If importing geometry or doing other tasks, Groups can automatically be created, and accumulate over time. Large numbers of groups can have an adverse effect on performance. Clearing out groups, if they exist, would be something to try.

Yep that's the way around it, sorry about this. There will be a fix in 2023 Update 4 to address the remaining scenarios this might ever occur in.

The toolpath has a zero vector length for trying to determine direction. For a workaround in 2023, try bumping your Toolplane up or down in Z by a small amount.

So sorry for your loss, Ron.

I like Ron's answer from a manufacturing perspective, but of course I have to also make sure we can make show-off paths!

Changing the Advanced Control Strategy from Automatic to Sync with ISO curves will produce a clean swarf with no vector bounce on your toolpath. Without specific tilt control, the toolpath will try to guess how best to control the tool orientation along the rails. On complex combos of tool/geometry, this isn't always the result you envision, and you might have to change this strategy choice. The most common strategy to swap to for Swarf is Shortest Distance- it's often the result the user pictures in their head when they envision how the swarf might end up.

That cut tolerance is large, especially if you're using an accurate machine that can hold position well. You'll see more accurate machines leave more definitive "lines" or visual marks at point spreads. Are you using Cycle 32 smoothing? If so (which you should be) what settings?

Have you installed, then uninstalled 2023 on these computers? That is a dll shared across installs. Reinstalling any version of Mastercam should recreate this file.

2023 had an issue with point to point sorting Start Point respecting that should be solved in Update 3. Solid hole default sorting when bulk adding items is something that we have a plan to address in a much smarter manner.

Hey Tegheim83, this is logged as R-32862 for your ref. When Model Prep editing a solid body, it essentially deletes and remakes the face that the holemaking operations are tied to. We have to rematch the solid with the op in the background and obviously there are shortcomings in the current match, though we are doing much better than we used to and this is a big area of focus. Can you please send me the file that did this, saved in the state where the issue is present? It will be valuable in our testing efforts to ensure we are considering all rebuild scenarios.

You beat me to it- I was just about to post that using the Blue Apply button in 2022 had an issue with not saving the advanced drill segment. This is fixed in 2023. The workaround for 2022 is to simply not click the blue apply button. The green check will save the segment.

Terry, in looking at Update 3, there's an item that I saw that I believe addresses this issue as well.

Fred, have you tried using the font scaling for Windows? What resolution monitor are you running on? An example of the windows settings at 100%, and then at 150%:

Terry, I looked into this, and apologies, I misspoke. The point to point correction is in Update 3, which is currently being built. It should be out shortly for download.

Terry, point to point sorting starting point had an issue with selection in the base release, which was fixed in Update 2. Basically, it was choosing to ignore the user selected start point and simply making the most efficient shortest distance path. 2023 Update 2 is available and contains a large number of fixes, including where you're probably not liking it in Machine Group Setup. I'd suggest downloading and installing that as soon as is practical.

It's so great, we made no less than three videos on it for 2023! https://youtu.be/7YjY1LmKcVM -Basic example of how this relates to Clean Core machining of old https://youtu.be/EGB_AyZSa5A - On Mesh example https://youtu.be/KyMRp60NlEw - Unique example of how you might use Tilt Relative in new workflows

No problem. Rather than adjusting tilt in collision control, use the Limits in the tool axis control page to set your safe machine extents. Also, I missed the link on the end. A second strategy to add a retract would cure this, yep.

Attached is an example. Here's what I changed- I swapped tool axis control to Surface with Tilt, and then set the Side tilt definition to ortho at each contour, which gets you an averaged positioning across each slice that roughly mimics what you were doing with the original Fixed to axis strategy, but allows the toolpath to properly react to the changing surface vector near the top of that geometry. The 30 degree tilt angle is then respected per pass as you travel along the part. No need to even get into contact point controls instead. DGG Example.mcam

There are options in Tool Axis Control for Unified/Parallel to tilt by contact point rather than angle. There are also more enhanced contact point controls in Pocketing- Wall Finishing and Pocketing- Floor Finishing. It's hard to offer more suggestions without a part file to use as an example.

Quite honestly, the rules behind the behavior of work offsets when using a mix of Automatic and Manual planes, across both WCS and Toolplanes, is deserving of its own 10-15 minute video. There's a reason most 5 axis posts have a switch that says something to the effect of "Override Mastercam offset and always use G5X"

Well, it was more than "A day or two", but here's that plane linking video. Hope this helps! https://youtu.be/BCvvdrp0ahw

Please send this one in to your reseller or the tech support inbox and get an R#! We definitely want to capture this issue

Can confirm that this was addressed.