Hi guys I got a message about open cl 1.2 so I updated my GTX 1080's drivers because solids are displaying oddly, when I hover over them they turn dull yellow. I have my gpu enabled in nvidia cntrol panel..and I see no option to change solid highlight color in configuration. I'm working from my home pc, my work pc with the same gpu is running fine. I have no idea what Mcam changed automatically when the open cl 1.2 warning popped up causing all this. Anyone else have this issue? I am pretty sure my grey solids just appear slightly darker grey when I hovered over them previously.

It is just me 1 license, I was told the Hasp usb is my only option to work at 2 physical local.

What I would love to see is Mastercam provide the option for online licensing, I use this feature in Solidworks and it simply disconnects my work computer when I log on at home. I am waiting for the day I can finally put this Hasp USB in a drawer and stop carrying it around/forgetting it. Also does anyone know how to make the mouse arrow icon appear when clicking a point during translate like in previous versions? I can't screen shot what i'm describing the cursor isn't being captured? All I get it a small translucent circle showing up on the point in 2020.

I build our computers and I can tell you that Mastercam just doesn't utilize the GPU or CPU, it is often only 10-15% uitilized. Compare that with gaming or rendering which use 100% of both at times. Solidworks utilizes much better but still not 100%. It is something they really need to work on, the quadro cards vs gaming cards make no difference. I put a GTX 1080 head to head with an M4000, enabling both in the nvidia control panel etc and set to use max power etc. multithreading enabled in Mastercam etc. It simply doesn't matter. One area that does make a difference is the clock speed of your cpu, running 5Ghz definitely calculates toolpaths faster then 3Ghz. So for Mastercam an expensive gpu doesn't really matter, but a i9 9900k is the best CPU for performance due to single threaded utilization of Mcam.

That is ridiculous that you would need to...Mastercam is good software if they would nail down all the known issues other then pumping out more bugs. The graphics are choppy as well, but I guess if you want good verify get vericut etc...

I'm sure I am not, but the bugs i mentioned are still present in 2020 at least in my copy. I could shoot a screen cap if I have to.

I would like to know how you can get the graphics to go a normal speed instead of either painfully slow or faster then you can blink. I see verify in other programs simulating how they actually look machining running smoothly..my verify is 0 to 100..

That is a nice way of doing it, you are adding New Toolpath Group, but that doesn't separate the program for me when I go to post, group 2/ OP 20 picks right up after group one ends? Just an M01 and the program keeps on going. I'm trying to make it post separately as one File.

I'm trying to get them both to post as one NC file, but as if they had been posted individually which includes title area, date etc. I don't think I can do that with WCS. What I like to do is have OP10 and OP20 nicely separated, which can be copy pasted to program O0000 and run without editing the original..it's just how I do it when I have thousands of programs. If I like the edits I make from year to year when the job repeats I go back and replace the actual file and everything is neat and tidy.

It does in a grayed out selection, but only group 2 actually posts.

1"Only display selected toolpaths" in previous versions if you toggle off display on a toolpath, it would stay off when clicking through the list after enabling only display selected. This is extremely annoying because independently they worked great in the past. Now if you don't want to see a million toolpath lines its turn it off for good and keep it off. 2"Stock Display" every version before 2020 if you turn off stock display it stays off...very annoying to see it keep popping up on its own. There are many more I will have to add to this list as I come across them again, but the aforementioned are the worst. P.S. if I have two machine groups using the same machine (i'm trying to force them to post into one nc file as two separate programs including m30's and title headers etc.) cimco flashes like it is posting twice but only posts group 2. Is there a way around this or should I just hand splice them?

PC I built for home use circa 2013-2014, it is equally fast to my two work computers, one uses a GTX 1080 and i7 7700 (my main office rig, only pc I have that was off the shelf because we needed a pc asap.) and one uses a Quadro M4000 and i7 4790k (build sitting next to machines). The Quadro cards perform no different at all in my experience. My newest work computer has an i7 7700 which is giving roughly equal performance to my home overclocked i7 4770k @ 4.4. All of my pc's are eerily similar in function. Regen isn't what ticks me off using cam, I understand the toolpaths are large. But when it takes 45 seconds to turn on all solids on a layer, or basically any function when files are 50MB or over taking more than a few seconds. I keep seeing people saying Mastercam uses a lot of ram, but even with 5 instances open etc..I never go past 12GB Bench was run with all precision's set to .0001 on my home computer i7 4770K @ 4.4Ghz this CPU can run at 4.8 for a few hours but always ends up blue screening 16GB 2 x 8 DDR3 1866 Asus Maximus 6 Hero Hyper 212 EVO cooler Seasonic 650W Gold PSU Gigabyte GTX 1080 stock clocks Sandisk Boot SSD 256GB Samsung 860 EVO 1TB Roughly 5:20 which seems OK for 2013-2014 hardware, what's unfortunate is I really want to upgrade my office rig to i9 9900K liquid cooled 5Ghz+ Or helium/Ln2 at 10Ghz Keep the GTX 1080's..doesn't seem like they are the bottleneck (or are they for turning on layers with a lot of solids?) DDR4 3000+ memory 16GB seems fine to me, I can never hit the limit.

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PC I built for home use circa 2013-2014, it is equally fast to my two work computers, one uses a GTX 1080 and i7 7700 (my main office rig, only pc I have that was off the shelf because we needed a pc asap.) and one uses a Quadro M4000 and i7 4790k (build sitting next to machines). The Quadro cards perform no different at all in my experience. My newest work computer has an i7 7700 which is giving roughly equal performance to my home overclocked i7 4770k @ 4.4. All of my pc's are eerily similar in function. Regen isn't what ticks me off using cam, I understand the toolpaths are large. But when it takes 45 seconds to turn on all solids on a layer, or basically any function when files are 50MB or over taking more than a few seconds. I keep seeing people saying Mastercam uses a lot of ram, but even with 5 instances open etc..I never go past 12GB Bench was run with all precision's set to .0001 on my home computer i7 4770K @ 4.4Ghz this CPU can run at 4.8 for a few hours but always ends up blue screening 16GB 2 x 8 DDR3 1866 Asus Maximus 6 Hero Hyper 212 EVO cooler Seasonic 650W Gold PSU Gigabyte GTX 1080 stock clocks Sandisk Boot SSD 256GB Samsung 860 EVO 1TB Roughly 5:20 which seems OK for 2013-2014 hardware, what's unfortunate is I really want to upgrade my office rig to i9 9900K liquid cooled 5Ghz+ Or helium/Ln2 at 10Ghz Keep the GTX 1080's..doesn't seem like they are the bottleneck (or are they for turning on layers with a lot of solids?) DDR4 3000+ memory 16GB seems fine to me, I can never hit the limit.