ah! good to hear - I figured it may not be mastercam's fault , no matter how you define a line your graphics card will want to make it prettier. I might do the same kind of thing - I've been playing more doom metal lately and the p90s just aren't cutting it. I picked up a '68 ampeg gemini G-20 though for down here in san diego and it's a beast for a small amp

the anti-aliasing or the treble? haha

You could try forcing anti-alias off in yourgraphics card settings (through nvidia control panel or whatever you use) for mastercam specifically - might stop it from adding pixels to smooth out lines and get them a bit thinner. Or you could turn down your bass and mids and turn up the treble

Thanks man - good to hear, also there seems to be craft beer coming out of every faucet.

Absolutely - and sometimes we have contour operations that are roughing, some that are finishing and really don't want to accidentally mix them up between toolpath groups. There is a user experience group at CNC - maybe some direct e-mail conversation would help get the ball rolling with some of these things

Pretty awesome - the people are great and I absolutely can't argue with the products. Lot of machining goes on in the tooling dept. and I've got kind of a blank slate with regards to robotics. It's a big company with a lot of aspects of a small company. The weather, haha yeah I'm glad I came in the 'winter'. I might die come summer but right now I'm loving it. I'll come back to the off-topic soon, I'm just behaving as a regular user rather than abusing my once magical admin powers.

I agree, but just tend to put roughing, drilling etc. in sub toolpath groups, so I make one toolpath group for the feature and then break it out into rough etc. from there. color I think would be cleaner

I was that way until someone told me 'think of it as you're holding the part and you're pulling it towards yourself or pushing it away', that made it click and then I really liked the space mouse / default settings

Inkscape can be really unstable so make sure you save often, but even with this I am a huge Inkscape fan. It is fantastic for making icons (although it won't make me a better artist >_<)

| That sounds like 'circular' logic

Do you have any from an old batch ? could send out for hardness testing against these new ones

+1 - I do this in general because it makes seeing / selecting lines a lot easier. There is an options menuf or dynamic xform under the exclamation mark, check for that.

Start with learning to calibrate your table. Especially if it's already running true.

Just meant if the post ever did it not the machine, but looks like you got it all sorted out - nice!

has it ever done 360 arcs? Post could be breaking it up. Maybe try one of the default machines and see if that will post 360 arcs

roll the seam close to the ball radius and then project it - will still be distorted but wold be much closer and might look more 'wrapped'.

Haha - well, the weather certainly is a lot nicer than Canada, and the food, grocery stores, gas prices, beer selection, .... not having seasons kind of stinks though. People are pretty nice in San Diego, but american banks won't give m a $30k loan with zero credit history.. what gives? Otherwise work is good so far - Taylor's a great place

What gets me is (and I haven't checked the latest X8 SP or anything) that the tolerances you can set in MasterCamSimulatorDefaults.xml aren't tied in to any controls in the simulator itself. If you manipulate those settings you can get the new verify running with very good quality without needing accurate zoom, but a regular user wouldn't know to go looking for that file. If you turn them up too far you can stall / crash the verify, but if you turn your tolerance in a toolpath to 0.00000001" you can do that too so.. I would just rather have the access.

I am aware yes, but if I'm someone say using a 5-axis router/laser etc. it just seems like something going backwards

Could you just use analyze dynamic and take the difference between the two relative to a plane?

THANK YOU. I love these mag bases and I always forgot to check the names on them

imo, new backplot is one of those things that should have been stopped in the design by the User Experience team from day 1 - although I think from a software design point, that getting to verify you kind of end up building backplot first so.. anyway. I can't imagine many people who would ever want the disconnect of having another screen open, and having a second monitor doesn't make it any better - it draws your eye away and takes you out of what you're doing. As a social experiment I have taken people not used to mastercam who had never seen 'old backplot', and let them use the 'new backplot'. Then, at lunch time I would switch back to 'old backplot' and they would think its an update. With the graphics improvements I could see a great integrated backplot on the horizon - especially for 5-axis. Love me them vector lines

this is great, thanks Mick

If you crank the precision in the MachineSimulationDefaults.xml you can get it pretty close to the old one.

Yeah, I keep asking people for metric tools. Metric vices, metric adjustable wrench, metric endmill lengtheners..