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crazy^millman

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  1. +1 Above suggestion or 3D HST Blend or Unified(Morph Between 2 Curves) in 3 Axis , Unified(Parallel) in 3 Axis.
  2. Are they in different machine groups? Can you show a screen shot of the operations Manager?
  3. Couldn't have said it any better myself.
  4. Huh? No a$$hole in the last 20 years of being here I haven't.
  5. Default Auto? Once you set a rotation using a 3D mouse then that as far as i Know is the one used forward. I like the current process. It use to reset and I didn't like it going every where. Just goes to show they can't please all of us when it comes to developing the software.
  6. I just got everything all installed and configured. I was coping 140gb of files from a hard drive to another. It was doing it at 2.3gb a second.
  7. I just got the new(refurbished) 7780 with the i9-13950HX Nviidia RTX5000A 16gb card and went down to 64GB with 5600 ghz. The 128GB was only 3600 ghz and thought memory speed was more important. I saved about $2000 and got the 5 year pro warranty. I never had to use it on the 7740 once. I threw branch new Samsung Pro 990 M2 T2b drive in along with 2 of the Samsung Pro 980 M2 2TB drives that were in the 7740. I took a current file I have been working that was had 20 revisions and made my first stock model dirty. The 7740 with the best i9 from 4 years ago with the RTX 5000A 16gb card with the Samsung Pro drives was taking about 20 minutes to reprocess the file. It was running about 46 to 50 degrees Celsius on the hard drives. This new(refurbished) regenerated that file in 4 minutes and is running about 34 degrees Celsius on the hard drives. I have been keeping my laptop on a cooling pad with 2 KLIM vacuum for some time now and think that makes all the difference in the world. I take the cooling pad and fans everywhere and no issues. I must keep the computer in my possession at all times and traveling tower never going to happen.
  8. Reach out to Mazak and they should be able to help you.
  9. Welcome to the forum. Need a Z2G to even think about trying to help.
  10. Well it was more than one day so I guess I was lucky enough to catch you on more than one good day. I am glad to help those who are helping themselves. All I ever ask of anyone I am teaching is pass it on and share it with others that is all the thanks I need. Your smart enough to figure it out. You impressed me with what you were doing when we meet. You got the drive and understanding now it is just a matter of doing it. In no time you will be impressed how the knowledge you have in the other things can help with 5 Axis Machining.
  11. Yes Planes on the left monitor and Tool paths/Solid half of the right monitor and Levels the other half.
  12. Many times. Here is 2024 with my 4 sub menu items and some of the QAT replacements for the Ribbons.
  13. Well said and almost my exact thoughts. Drives me up one wall and down the other, but yes sir right away sir. How high did you want me to jump sir? How much more of the floor you need me to mop? That toilet needed cleaning right on it sir mean while the ship is sinking.
  14. When i teach Mastercam one of the first things I tell people is my way is what I have come up with for programming parts. Take what I teach you and use what is helpful to you. Canned training is great to get familiar with the software, but when I teach I use customer parts. I want to use real world examples to teach. As I teach I dump a lot of information into the training. I would rather lay the ground work for what someone can accomplish than limit them to what some book teaches. What are the traps and other things to be thinking about? Why use this method over that method? What are tricks to be faster more efficient when programming? Interact and engage the students and you see the process gain a life of its own. I use no Ribbons and spread my managers over several screens. For me increases my programming sped by 20-40%. Having the recent functions parked on right side as a toolbar and list as many as the selection. My RMB has things to make life easier with Auto Cursor and Lock Auto Cursor on it. I have the stolen screen space set to 100% since it was stolen from us I want to know it was stolen from us not hide it and then accidentally click on it and loose my chain of thought as I am programming parts. The attributes being tied to the RMB or floating in my opinion was a poor decision from a GUI standpoint. Might be easier from a product development standpoint, but from the end user stand point I hate it.
  15. Shameless plug Ron week on CamInstructor. You can always call me. I liked working with you in the past and would be glad to help you when I have time.
  16. Exactly how I did it. Now we are forced into that direction.
  17. Why not just create them on the arc?
  18. That is what is not good about the new Machine Group process. I get the dumbing down of the software to meet to needs to everyone that use it, but for experiences users this new must must must direction sucks. I can use the like I did, but seems to be more trouble that it is worth. Now I have 4-12 different machine groups in a file unless doing turning then because that like always has not got any love or attention is not working in 2024. I send in a bug report and get crickets. Past the point of even trying anymore to report issues. I will just keep my head down do what I do to feed my family and see what direction the future takes me.
  19. Since I have always used a Stock model as my first operation in Mill i didn't notcie a difference when doing this in 2024. Guess it is about time the software caught up to what I was already doing.
  20. Going to need to reach out to your post builder and ask them.
  21. So you have only the original version of Windows on your computer and have never updated it once? Let me guess you're a perfect out of the box programmer who's speeds and feeds and code is always perfect? Improving things is always a good thing in my book, but I am the crazy person in the room so there is that.
  22. No most insert cutters are not flat bottom bY design. A flat bottom endmill is the correct call here in my humble opinion.
  23. Make sure each plane in Mastercam has a the correct offset in the planes manager. Don't use the automatic crash your machine offset process.
  24. Flat endmill using a multi Axis toolpath to cut them. the slot tool is going to introduce too much stress into the part. Might use a 3/8 endmill to reduce the tool pressure also, Develop the process and make sure you are roughing to a plus condition. Let normalize for 24 hours or use dry ice for 4-6 hours. Semi Finish to still a plus condition then repeat the 24 hour or dry ice normalization then finish.

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