Mick, I was able to work out the issues I was having and now have the .dll executing properly! Pshew... you guys have done a lot of work on the sdk & c-hook template..Dang thats a pile of info... So my next question is............Now What......? lol.. Thanks for the input.. More Questions will be forth comming.. Thanks, Greg

Mick, Ok great thanks, I would love to be able to rock on this! Greg

Mick, First off, thank you for the quick reply! I shure do appreciate the help. After compiling the .dll when I execute it in mastercam, I am getting an unknown filetype error. We are using x7 mu2...does the x7 sdk work with this version? I am getting super excited looking at all the possibilities through c-hooks! Very happy to find that Mastercam allows that level of access.. Thanks, Greg

also, I dont see the point in starting into net hooks if they are not capable of what i need done..?

Mick, It's a simple mastercam script that runs you through a series of runmastercam commands very rudimentary but it saves alot of work and it allows me to program a trode rather quickly..I just tried the c++ template in vs 2010 pro and it will only build if i aim it at the v7 sdk..when I aim it at the v8 sdk,,,errors...not sure i understand. you mentioned to use 2010 for x8 chooks, not sure of whats happening.. Already downloaded all the chook sdk stuff last night, plowing through it now.. thanks, Greg

I would like to have mastercam analyze geometry...minimum radius, surface draft, z depth, and use said criteria for toolpath set-up..Im dealing in electrode creation with Solidworks and programming with Mastercam...loving the improvements in x8 as far as the rest rough stuff is concerned!! Great Job on that for sure... It seems I should be able to develope a one click solution as far as toolpathing, if i had access to call toolpaths and set parameters off of geometric parameters, It could be done..I understand the depths at which one could dive down too with the chooks and I dont mind that if it will do what i need it to do..So I guess my question is....Is it possible through one of the methods provided? I already have tool tables set, toolpath parameters set...etc...etc.. I have a script that will walk you through the programming process, but still involves a lot of user input..

Mick, I recently downloaded Visual Studio 2013 Express and the c# template to start playing with ..I am tring to develope some automatic toolpath routines. Probably a question you have heard before, can I have a solid model, grab a curve, grab a 3d toolpath and crunch the path thru scripting, programming, macro? I was able to easily achieve this thru simple macros in powermill..Any advice would be appreciated.. Is it possible to do thru chook,nethook? 3d surface ? using version x8.. Thank you for your time, Greg

Hello Mick, I was wondering if the status has changed with the vbscript api reguarding surface programming and if not, is it possible another way?