I have a few books and my biggest grip is that no is little or no information about WHY you would select an method. Also, what are some 'comparable' type of tools.

I did a fresh install.

What does it take to be a beta testor??

oops . . .wasn't done

2) Yesterday, one file went "screwy". Suddenly, and I mean, SUDDENLY, my WCS switch from top to a numbered WCS which was NOT made. All arc and lines exploded and were placed all over the grid.

3) Four hours later I went to my config and recevied this error message "Message 436 in [configuration test] not found." This went through four steps with same message using numbers 436, 437, 438 and 439.

Does anyone know what is going on?????????

I have had a few problems since I did a complete install with the SP2 disk.

1)When I deleted several ops from Operation Manager, MC would completely lock up. No mouse or keyboard. This happened with two different files. I had to delete ops one at a time to complete task.

2)

t smith thanks

I want to made a custom tool for backplot and verify. I have placed the tool design on the FTP site as SANDVIK45CHAMFERTOOL.MC9

I would like to do other type of designs that are not standard to MasterCAM.

Time to shout, "Yeah, God"

What part of "illegal" don't you understand. By giving them the right to a driving license gives them the rights to vote, buy guns and to exchange their license in another state without any other documentation. This is an open invitation to help "terrorist" become an active part of this country before attacking it. It makes them "appear" legal , when in fact, they are "illegal". One last questions, how do you expect and "illegal" activity consitute a "legal" activity. If they are illegally here, they will continue to do "illegal" things. There are several other means for illegal immergrants to become legal--use them.

I was a finance manager of a car dealership. Although I was making $100+ a year, it affected my family and health. I got out of the business, and went on "unemployement" resolving to change my lifestyle. Too late to save my marriage. I received a letter from the unemployment department asking if I wanted to be trained as a CNC Operator. I would still get my benefits and they would place me into a position in the area. I took their offer and attended Fullerton Community College. Since I was not arried and my classes were paid for, I took night course in Manufacturing Processes, NC Programming, SmartCAM and AutoCAD. I finish the course, but had to find my own job. I did. It was for Luther Lane Tool Corp., as an operator. I continued taking courses until I received an AA in Manufacturing Technology two years later. At LLTC, I soon became the 2D programmer using MasterCAM 3.x. I continued to advance to 3D programmer and designer, later to Engineering Manager. I worked there for 12 years before moving to another position as Sr. Programmer for an injection molds shop in Walnut, California.

Thanks gcode . . . this work perfect.

Initially, I did it May-Day's way, but when the STL is brought in with the verification mode, it is extruded top down. Still no luck on this.

This takes the solid straight down. All details on the bottom is lost. What I am really after is to make the 'exact' part with all details and then bring it in to the verication mode. Maybe, someone knows of a better file to use rather than STL.

I have a question about STL. I would like to convert a solid into STL. Is it possible and how do you do it???