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This also happened to me a few years back . I cut the tool at its very base with a huge angle grinder and was able to reach the tube and screw it out of the holder. It was a DMG DMU 60 with a 24 000 spindle. The service guy that cam to see this quoted me 2 months waiting time and removing all the spindle from the back , my cutting lasted 15 min and he took pics of huge sparks flying from a grinder as if I was crazy or smthg :) . Gracjan

I would say that its the coordinate system that has moved not the part. At least when it comes to 2022 and 2023, it happens very often. luckily locking the plane stops the earthquakes. i have never seen the parts move . What mcam version? Gracjan

i think you need to tell the machine somehow where the two rotary axes are ( vectors and coordinates.) Gracjan

there are conversion kits for floppy discs to USB. I have seen several old injection machines converted like this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/164239141351?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200818143230%26meid%3D898923ca435e4eca93a5ec583be52c4a%26pid%3D101224%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D363050570422%26itm%3D164239141351%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganicWeb&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1 Gracjan

I once had to make a few grooves 1.6 mm wide and 20 mm deep. I created a surface in the middle of the groove and created a toolpath where the tool is going like a sewing machine some 2000 mm up and down and a increment horizontal move of 0.05 mm. I could have EDMed it , but the manual polishing after the burn made me mill . the grooves were altogether 1.5 meters long in 0.5 meter chunks. The material was of course steel ,HRC 33. I think only 3 or 4 end mills were used. Gracjan .

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I got two out of the three profiles working in 2022 but it took me about 20 minutes to figure it out and also after a while I lost the second profile. In 2021 its almost effortless... Gracjan qc has been notified Gracjan

if two solids are added together using the Boolean Common end up with a result , that means the two solids clash . Gracjan

Black background is the easiest on the eyes and uses the least energy as there are no pixels lit up,IMHO. I have setup an icon to instantly change to the gradient background, but I have never used it. The gradient background is more futuristic, but I don't live in Hollywood Gracjan

in 2022 you can machine the text without having to break the text into lines. This means you just write a new text, regen and machine. Gracjan

One of the best graphic tests for a 2d chain is the ability to extrude a solid. If you have several of them on the screen , you could window chain them the chains that don't give you a proper solid are the ones that have problems. Another giveaway is the curve you choose to start a chain. If the chain ends up starting off of another cure , you have found your culprit. Gracjan

ill try to answer you today. Gracjan

Use Simplify .

What I would do is make the post save all the comments into a separate file automatically every time you post out . I actually did something like that many many years ago but stopped using it. Now I just empty the directory of these files once a year... If you want I can post these few lines here from my post ... Gracjan .... so to answer your primary question : neither. Grracjan

Yes , just noticed that I chose 2022 and now I can't change it..,.

RMB , Open with , then manually choose the 2017 Mastercam.exe...

Go for 2022, it's been super stable for me. Actually , yesterday was the first time it died on me. So , like 4 months without any crash. Gracjan

5-ax pocketing is not adequate here as your machining geometry floor is not radial. And then even if you create an imaginary floor surface which could be radial ( like the top of your part ) then the tool axial deflections will not help to clear out the external surface undercut. I would suggest a 3-ax roughing strategy and then swarfing. Gracjan

They were made uneditable because there could have been unintentional side effects , a thing I have never myself experienced. I now read your answer in full and I seemed to have hit the crux of it yesterday. Mastercam has no manual that comes with it , it was last seen in X5 , so you have to hunt the info down from the Help or on Youtube. A full self education of Mastercam based on the written word would require reading this manual and then reading all the What's New PDFs X6-2022. Gracjan

so much to take in... For now I'll just address your statement that you cannot modify the existing planes . All planes created by the user can be modified through the edit function in the RMB. If you are referring to the fact that the default 9 planes cannot be edited (Top , Front ....Trimetric) , that is true. I think it was around X5 a decision was made to chisel them into stone . Gracjan

What are you downloading and where from ? An NC-program on your machine or Mastercam from somewhere ? The message is on your control or on your PC? ....... I think you are getting my drift here Gracjan

it's a bit late now, but I would have made a test run before the final cut, with 0.005" stock to leave , measured that it's leaving the 0.005" and then cut based on the outcome of the measurement. This comes up very often when I have to make holes for calendar inserts in molds. for a hole of D6-8 mm and depth f 12 mm if I leave .01 mm even if I hammer the insert in it wont go down all the way. Overcut it by 0.005 mm and it falls out. So i make a test cut with a step of 0.005 mm and measure it as the hole grows. I usually get it down to 3-4 cuts altogether. Gracjan PS . I suspect your tool was not in the center , or you had a chip between the tool and the spindle. I just had a case like that a few months ago. No simulation will help here.

I ran the benchmark 3.0 on my home machine , a 4,00 GHz i7 on all the mcams I have installed: 2019 4:54 2020 4:18 2021 4:06 2022 4:21 the 2022 was a bumpy ride . Gracjan