neil qwerty
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Rickster, run all your operations thru verify, while in verify save the results as an stl file. Now when you create your rest roughing operation, select the stl file that you just made in verify as the stock. Mastercam will compare the stl file to the surfaces and machine only the required areas. Neil.
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Thanks for your answer CParish, previous releases had a demo version that would allow you to open a mastercam file, backplot the programs but not allow you to save (it would also round off any measurements you took). Is the HLE version new for X4? Just curious, I'd never heard of it before. N.
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Does anybody know if X4 demo version is available yet or when it will be available? Thanks, Neil.
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Solids like tangency!
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Try putting a small rad(.001-.005") on the sharp vertical edge before putting the rad on the bottom.
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Right click on your operations and export. To bring them in right click in the op manager and import.
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Need help to convert nc files to nci files
neil qwerty replied to AlphaD's topic in Industrial Forum
Welcome to the forum. There used to be a reverse post that you could run NC files thru to create NCI files but I haven't done that for years (before version X). It may have been a chook, I can't quite remember. What version are you using? -
Surface rgh contour : Multi passes.
neil qwerty replied to MotorCityMinion's topic in Industrial Forum
Have you looked at HS Rough Restmill, we use this for our castings, they have about .5" of extra material on them. If you haven't used it before, it's kind of a mixture of rough pocket and rough contour. -
LOL....only on a Monday.
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Are you using the same version of MasterCam that you were using last week?
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quote: I've cleared P20 pockets with isalnds and such cutting 1 inch deep with a 1/2 inch cutter at over 700 IPM safely on Makino's and Okuma's. Very interesting, what spindle speed and step over were you using to acomplish this?
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+1 to Mr. Lacky, to expand on his answer...to get rid of the group color, go to screen, clear colors.
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How many of you have a Space Ball unit
neil qwerty replied to Jayson Kramer's topic in Industrial Forum
I have a space explorer and could not live without it when I'm using UG, however with Mastercam I don't use it, I find it's not very smooth. I wish it worked as well in MC as it does in UG. -
Single NEC 24" (Accusync 24WMCX) 1920x1200
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+1 to John, 64 bit rocks when running multiple apps and you have lots of ram, I'm currently running UGNX4, NX6, Autoform (using 2 cores), Mastercam, outlook, word, IE and my machine is still really responsive. N.
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I don't recall a job posting section on this site but if you go to Mastercams web site, on the main page on the right hand side click on employment, there are some postings in there. Good luck.
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We are about to upgrade one of our programming computers, sounds like we should be considering a quad core. It would be nice to see a benchmark comparing a dual core to a quad core with similar specs. Too bad about only being able to use 4 cores, this machine has 8, it would be fun to see how quick it would run using all of them.
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How does the new parallel processing work in X4? If you have a Quad core, will it use all 4 cores? If so, does this mean that it should process considerably quicker than a dual core? Up until now there really hasn't been much reason to go beyond a dual core if all you're doing is running 1 instance of MC. Thanks, Neil.
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Someone pass the popcorn!
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MasterCam X3 slow load times?
neil qwerty replied to Josh @ Pegasus NorthWest's topic in Industrial Forum
Sounds to me like Mastercam is looking for a drive/folder that is no longer there. We have this problem if someone shuts down the computer that we post to. Go through your config file and check or all of your networked folders or better yet, reselct them by browsing. Also check your post/machine defs. -
Welcome to the forum.... Version 3 ??? That's what I learned on 16 some odd years ago. I don't think anybody is still running that on this forum. Your best bet may be to have some local computer guru copy those onto 3.5 inch floppies for you as something that old will no longer be supported. Do you have a computer old enough to run this?? You really should consider saving yourself the headaches and use a more recent supported version.
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Zek, consider using a high speed rough restmill operation. This type of toolpath will look at the stock that is left over from your previous operation and use a rough contour combind with a rough pocket to machine the leftover areas. We use this toolpath regularly with castings we machine and it works great. HTH, Neil.
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Gutty, 32bit windows won't recognize anything more than 3.2 gigs of ram. If you want to take advantage of the rest of your ram, you'll need to switch to 64 bit although I doubt it'll make much of a difference to your time. Neil.
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Toolpath like waterline but opposite?
neil qwerty replied to Thee Rickster ™'s topic in Industrial Forum
I would think you could also use blend for this.