This is what I did. I wrote my post to handle 19 different machines. When you hit post, a popup box appears asking you to select the machine: and, after that, another pop up for the programmer.

There is a license key file within your cimco install that may have gotten moved or corrupted. Also, if someone tried to install the cimco standalone version it will also disable the MC cimco addon. You can clean MC and cimco off your hard drive and registry and reinstall, or just get the standalone version. Much cheaper to just get the standalone version rather than go through that headache. Since you have an MC license you get a nice, sizable discount. Cimco is such a great tool, and so inexpensive, that I would recommend you just buy it.

But the solid selection is not activated.

Ford makes better engines than Chevy. Do you want a Ford engine in your Chevy? The reason I ask this is the place that I work at followed the same mentality and they have nothing but problems. They put Haas indexers in Fanuc machines.

This is interesting. I would have thought that you just select the solid face, but there is now way to do that. When you click on the solid face, it selects the entire solid.

Why didn't you get a Haas indexer? Does your boss drive his car to work backwards, too?

Keeping the R values is incorrect. The IJK values should be used. I have seen several issues where R values do not give you the correct shape; where as, IJK always does. Also, as Cathedral states, do not round off to 3 decimal points. Another thing, break your arcs into quadrants.

The full stand alone Cimco editor is very cheap.

Create a template file.

Use Cimco.

In order to get it to work properly for a 90 deg facemill you need to make sure of some things: If you are using a corner radius value you must add 2x the radius value to your "Secondary diameter". In other words, if you have a 2.0 "cutting diameter" and a .03" radius your "secondary diameter" must be 2.06". Your shoulder length must be less than the overall length. Your upper diameter should be less than your cutting diameter. Keep in mind MC uses the "Secondary diameter" (not the "cutting diameter") as the calculation for toolpaths with facemills when contouring against shoulders in verify.

What form filler?

Select no and check the "Don't ask me again this session" Box. That box should read "Don't ask me this stupid question again for the rest of my life". All this does is lock the drill depth from the original into the copied process. You could not even edit the depth without deleting the copied and redoing it. Up until X9 there was no check box, and the default was "yes". What a PITA this was for a decade.

Sort of.

Yes. That is exactly what I do.

Both, individual offsets coming from the centerline. This gives the operator the ability to tweak.

Because win10 is a disgusting invasion of your privacy is what I would say.

That's pretty slick. What size indexer is that?

Surfcam is always the biggest problem.

"Yes I have seen the same thing, but not all the time with copied planes." These seem to be primarily with copying the default MC planes. And, there are alot of problems with those. Instead of copying planes anymore, I just activate the planes I want copied, then start a new dynamic plane creation and select origin. From there I can just activate the new WCS or rotate as I desire. No more problems

Realistically, I think this is a marketing scam. Let's make some half xxxx posts so we can screw them for $5000 more once they figure out they can't do with mastercam what they expect. Most of these posts look like they were written by someone that has never seen a g-code program. Everyone of these has to be reworked to some degree. This is version 18 of a software that has been around for 20+ years. Like I said. I could program this by hand in 10 minutes. Why does MC give us such a headache with things like this? Extortion? We also had bought a 5-axis post from MC. We had them rework it 15 times and they still did not get it right. We finally gave up.

Here is a problem. This works fine for single axis. But, when you put this on a vertical with a rotary indexer that rotates around Z axis, things do not work out so well. I have ID holes located every 120 degrees (perpendicular to centerline). Pretty simple, huh?Probably 10 minutes to write this by hand. When I try to rotate this, it doesn't work worth xxxx. In fact, it seems to use the "Machine View Angle" in the RAH description as the C-axis rotation angle instead of using the indexer to control rotation around Z-Axis. Quite frankly, the MPROUTER.pst needs alot of work to do anything. The ONLY way I can get this to rotate is to use Transform/rotate, Method "Tool Plane", and output as subprograms. If I don't use subs, I get garbage. And, the clearance position must be The center of rotation. In other words, Absolute zero. Then, on top of this, editing RAH tools is a PITA. You can't just copy/paste. Every tool must have it's own definition in the Machine definition. And, once you describe those RAH, or edit, they do not automatically update the program. You must start over with your tool selection. What a Fkin headache!!!! Hell, this post can't even output sub programs in transform correctly. It doesn't even have code for G28?!? How many more years to MC users have to fight this xxxx? Maybe, by Version XXZ they will finally get this to work. MC needs to stop adding more features until they get the " features" from 10 versions back to work properly.

All you need to do is draw a point in X-axis where your want to start.

I am also working on a part that seems to be identical to your situation. A 3 axis vertical with a rotary indexer lying flat and rotating around Z axis. 6 holes must be drilled and reamed on the id. My RAH will be in the machine with the tool tip facing X+. So, I defined my RAH in MC with a 180deg angle. The mastercam MPROUTER.pst is setup (sort of) to handle this task. I say sort of, because the post is kind of funky. I am not a router guy, and do not understand why they set some thing up like this. Particularly, the work offset system needed debugging. It kept on overriding the work offset I wanted to be G57 as G55. I got to the bottom of this and fixed it. There were also alot of other things that needed to be changed, and a few for personal preference. WCS was setup as top of part with the T/C planes set to left side.

My posts were written for X7, but it could have been from an X6 master, I suppose. Thank you for the suggestion. I will give that a whirl