It would be better if it was an option in the options.

Heh, "feature". That's a good one. Thanks for the quick response.

I am unable to backplot any ghosted operations in Mastercam 2018. Is there an option somewhere to allow backplotting of ghosted operations? I was able to backplot ghosted operations in previous versions of Mastercam.

I keep getting the error: "Linked operations must have the same work offset. Please reselect only operations with the same work offset." All of my operations have the same WCS, and same work offset. I did a "edit common parameters", and "renumber work offsets" to be sure everything was same-same, and still no-go. Does anyone have any tips to get around this error message?

Yes- I needed to rotate Top WCS in 20 ops, so I made a duplicate of top and rotated it. If I "common edit" the WCS field, then every Tplane and Cplane also change to whatever is selected in the Tplane & Cplane fields. There should be a way to common edit only the WCS field in all selected ops. I usually run into this issue when we need to move a program to a different machine.

I have 20 operations and I'd like to change the WCS on every operation. Every operation has a different tool plane. Can I use edit common parameters to change the WCS on all 20 operations without changing the Tplane, or Cplanes? If I select all operations, and try to change only the WCS, then it also changes all the Tplanes & Cplanes to a common plane.

For example- Say my 5axis 3+2 part has 100 faces, and I wanted to rotate my model by 20 degrees, and have all the tool planes & origins update with the rotation, what is the easiest way? If all the planes were associated with the model, then they would all update with the model. Most of my planes have lost association with the model. I would like to re-associate all the planes to the model, so that if I have to rotate it again in the future, then everything will update. I don't know of a way to re-associate planes without recreating every plane, and reselecting the new planes for each of my 100 toolpath operations.

Is there any way to associate an existing unassociated plane to geometry to make it associated? In other words- I have 20 planes that lost their association. Is there a way to associate them to geometry or a solid face without recreating them? I would like to rotate my model, but I need all of the planes to be associated to the model in order to rotate everything together.

I think they should replace "Tplane" with "Gplane" on the lower ribbon status bar, and have people select the custom "Tplane" in the plane manager. I mean how common is changing the Tplane to something different than the Cplane? We should have the Tplane default to equal Cplane, and change it in the plane manager if you need something custom. I think a Gplane button would be way more useful on the lower status ribbon than a Tplane button would be.

I don't understand why they removed the Gview button from the lower status ribbon bar. I mean... they included the Cplane, Tplane, and WCS buttons- Why not include the Gview button as well?? I have a file with 20 custom Gviews, and I was using Gview... Named Planes.., to quickly select between custom views at the bottom of the main window. I can't use the C-plane named views button, because the gview doesn't follow the Cplane (and there's no way to force "Gview follows Cplane". The only way I see to quickly switch between named Gviews is to use the plane manager. I'd rather select a gview from the main window, without opening the plane manager. Why not include a Gview button, and have the Cplane/Tplane follow the Gview? I would think that graphical view selection would be an easy selection on the main screen. I can't even select a named Gplane from "graphics view" in the main ribbon bar. The only way to select a custom Gview is in the planes manager window. Why would I have to open the planes manager to select a Gview that isn't one of the main "Top/Bottom/Left/Right" Gviews?