Check your OD. The ID needs to be .002 smaller than the OD. My guess is that your OD is set to 2.00

See if this works. In your cutoff parameters go into "stock update" and switch it to "keep piece in active chuck" That should keep your remaining stock in the chuck and the part will be in the chip tray

The solid sweep will only allow you to use ONE shape to follow along ONE contour or "Path". Meaning that you cannot change from one shape to another along a given path. Unlike the surface sweep.

Think of the Solid as being one across with one along. Obviously the surfaces give you much more control.

From MasterCam Help:

You can have more than one shape Following along the same path, but it will result into seperate solids. Thats why I put this in bold letters (Each Sweep operation has two editable geometry components)

Now because you have more flexibility with the surfaces use those. Just like you can overcome the limitations of a "swept surface" by using a "Net surface". Having a choice is a good thing

So since you are teaching Mastercam Solids. It sounds to me that this is a perfect opportunity for you to show them how to build a solid from a surface and Boolean the solids together. Your students will learn a lot more from you this way, and they will know that they have options.

Good Luck.

Are you using the microlift? If so make sure you do not have a negative number.

Try Peel Mill.

Use a Three flute End Mill, stay away from inserts, and push it hard.

I could'nt copy and paste it but take a look at page 41 In the "what's new in Mastercam X3" It should help. Sorry for the lame reply but the info is all there, and I have to pack up and go.

Do what Pete suggested and install the SW direct. That way you can launch the current part in SW to MC. You can find it at www.mastercam.com

Doing good! I'll be at the pacific design show next week in anaheim. You coming down?

Hit ALT-T that will turn your toolpaths back on, and don't hit alt-t ever again. Now enjoy your mu1 and take advantage of the new toolpaths you have.

If you choose to bring in the features from solidworks, Mastercam connects to solidworks to bring in the history. So if you have SW open you will see the part and the features being sucked out of it. Once the file is in MC that file goes away in SW. It should not shut SW down though. It may close down that page. Also If SW is not open, In mastercam you will see a message at the bottom of the screen saying "connecting to solidworks". You should be fine, just double check to make sure SW is not shutting down completly, I'm betting that it is not.

Hope this helps.

Draw a line down the center of the part. Use contour ramp turn on the plunge in the ramp parameters. The plunge depths will be your depth cuts.

Lossen up your cut tolerance and filter tolarance. They are way to tight to filter anything. I doubt your machine can even hold a .0005 tolarence. Also I would be suprised if your 3d contour is even dimensioned tighter than +/- .001 even at that, you have a total tolerance of .002....A .001 high and .001 low.

Not sure what you are asking. The surface high speed rest roughing has it. Also the surface rough restmill has highspeed transitions as well.

If you convert the file to a VDA file then read it back into mastercam that will convert all nurbs to parametric. The only way I know of to do it fast.

Check and make sure you use true solids selected in the verify config

Select the line and analyze properties. Make any change you want.

Just to make you feel better the auto cursor did not find endpoints of surface in V9. You still had to force it to endpoint.

So it still works the way it always has.

The auto cursor selection overide in the toolbar is what I was talking about. I am using SP1 with all the updates, So you might want to check that.

BTW I tried it again and you can be set to either 2d or 3d

You can still pick the endpoint of the surface you will need to force the point selection to endpoint. The only difference is that it does not show the point like it did in V9. Just make sure you are set to 3d, if you want to see a point then create one at the endpoint of the surface and use that.

Hope this helps

They need to loose the dot Dude. It's not a mastercam issue it's windows. If they loose the dot in the file structure you should not get the warning.

My pleasure by the way just the opposite for in to mm. Type 1in you get 25.4

If you are working in inch mode and grab a mm tool ex 8mm mastercam going to think that that means 8in. Here is a cool tip. If you type 8mm in th tool dia MC will convert it to inch. So when you backplot or verify it will look right.

It's under your feed rates and spindle speed on the tool parameters page.

You need to break the note into geometry. MC machines geometry not drafting dimensions or notes. Create letters is the best way to handle this.