no ability yet, but good suggestion

like this? This is a Multi-axis Curve path

pick the chain and then select the entity you what to be the end of the selection. It should then change to a partial chain selection

thad, colored face has been talked about many times at Mastercam. I'm sure it's on the plan, just an issue of when. Parasolids brought in as surfaces with edge curves is like you described.

the answers on the poll make no sense. More people would buy the Mastercam/Solidworks app if the price was the same (question 1) BUT more people would buy standard Masercam if it was MORE expensive (question 3) ?!?

select Planes on the status bar at bottom of screen. From the list select Lathe Dia D+z+

try opening it in Paint or similar. Might be a simple graphics file.

quote: I tried that at it runs terrible, dynamic rotation is erratic and slow so have changed it back...but if that helped the crashing then video is likely the problem. Do you need to update your video drivers? Do you need to upgrade your video card? What video card do you have?

what CAD system? You can read both file types in a text editor. In the header there should be some info on the originating cad system. If it's Solidworks, SolidEdge or Autocad or Inventor, get the native cad file. MC can read those 4 plus more directly.

you're to fast John

do you know about the 2D/3D switch at the start of the status bar? Set to 2D to let MC snap any where in Z but draw at value in Z field, 3D uses the Z from where ever it is snapped.

so what do you need to do? Change DRILL cycles or change CANNED cycles? G71/G72 is for rough cycles, G73 is apattern repeating cycle, G74/G75 groove cycle

those are lathe canned machining cycles, not drill cycles. Is this a lathe post you are working on?

open the post in an editor and do a search for G71. You should find in a 'string select' table that you could edit.

The dat file holds the width of the characters. Look at the Leters.dat in C:McamX2-MR2commonfontsBox. You can open it with any text editor, i.e. Cimco Edit

change the hand of the holder

check the setup in the tool to see the direction of the spindle

it is a demo thing. dimension numbers are rounded weird, same with posted gcode. For drawing, you can get a Design LT from your dealer for short money.

don't quite understand what you are saying. Sample code from generic 2 axis post. G0 G54 X1.5396 Z.1 G50 S3600 G96 S200 G71 U.1 R0. G71 P100 Q102 U.02 W.01 F.01 N100 X.3094 S200 G1 Z-.2457 X.6823 Z-.4528 X1.0771 G3 X1.1396 Z-.4841 R.0313 G1 Z-.6453 N102 X1.5396 G0 Z.1 Starts and ends at the same Z.1 that I told it to

David, are you using the stock lathe.set file? It has a post block for adding rapid time together code: ptimer #Rapid time and length calc rlen = rlen + len #Running total RAPID length trtime = rlen / pst_rpd_fr$ #Running total RAPID time pst_rpd_fr$ is a system variable for rapid feedrate. You could make your own variable and set it's value based on your post question. code: # Specific setting to allow tuning the cycle time calculations # Set the time it takes for machine to do a toolchange tlchgtime : 0.1 #Tool Change Time (* in Minutes *) tlchgtime can be adjusted in your post block when you ask the question.

in a post block you put q1 to ask fq 1. Like: code: psof$ q1 "%", e$ ...

I suppose only if you are going to do a canned finish.

cool

you need to set the max arc size to put the points on in the ribbon bar of the function

Tim, you can set your status bar to thread style points and then do a 'Create' - 'Point' - 'Create point small arc...' and create the point on all the arcs at once. Then do your window select method.