Have a look PIN.MCX-7

I will deal with it tomorrow BR

Use Mastercam help it describes the way to do it very proper. In MC help search topic write STL and push the button RTFM

Trim toolpath is the very old way to do surface operations It was used when check surfaces and boundaries were not used or had limitied functionality. It can be used for varios tricky situations but in most cases stay away from it. And you will have lots of spare G0 movements that trim is not able to filter away. I use Mastercam for 20 years and I used it 2 or 3 times . BR

but it only works at the actual tool change. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ if there is no toolchange you can activate force tool change check box in toolpath parameters. HTH

In most cases not rigid part can be milled rather rigid if you mill this wall first that surface later leave techhological wall for support or place jacks here and there . This is called technology and this is an art. Instead of using HSM on whole part as it is you can get the job done smooth and without mad shrieks. Yes it is additional work but it worth it. I am rather humble person who am I to argue I only want to say that being old school technology engineer I believe that sometimes (most of times) teh job can be done with simple things and solutions . The simplest the best . You need to reprogram your brain to do this. Not magical it will solve all my problems something but good old xxxxing stuff called technology BR

Colin ,sometimes 5-10 % of speed change will turn harmonics out . As for solutions there are lot of them . Have you ever tried Wood`s metal or Polyurethane to add rigidity? BR

This idea came to me after sitting for hours in my programming office listening to the screeching of the machines in our shop... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You have setupists or who they are ???? It is a job of setup man to find good feed and speed. Being machinist-programmer for more than 20 years i can not believe this is impossible. Your guys are lazy S>O>Bs not giving a damn for a part or tool. you need to start from the floor and after that think about rocket science

Metal part is not ideal body. It will have some specific zones due to interference and difraction .,different thickness and so on. I wanna see how you`ll manage in real time implement contra- faze wave that will deal with all this . AND for what exactly?I never met a part that I was not able to get rid of extra vibrations . And trust me I milled lot of B@stard parts like thin pipes ,camerton looking like parts .thin blades and so on . You need to be sorta creative ,man ,that`s all . I know lots of tricks that solve this task in simplest ways you would not believe . My motto -be as simple as possible. BR

Not to offend anyone but I am very sceptic at least . I prefer the simplest ,dumbest solutions This one looks too clever to be practical BR

in tool manager use select different library button open your recent mc* file and select tool from there

You can run finish inside pocket , You need to switch on finish subpage So you`ll have roughing without compensation and walls finish with it in the same toolpath . But usually I prefer separate tools for roughing and finish for my kind of work As for why , but why is cutter comp getting turned on and of on and off, with x/y movements in between? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You need to learn more about cutter compensation how it works and it`s limitations If you have some fanuc machine Fanuc yellow book (one of them ) Has the best explanation of compensation ever been written IMHO Just understand how it works then read about all limitations of compensation and you`ll get it

was making a pocket, but noticed that mastercam doesn't want any wear/cutter comp for these tool paths ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ nOONE USEs COMPENSATION FOR pocket roughing for a couple of reasons but if you would switch on finish in the same pocket operation you can use compensation without a problem. I do not want to enter into the reasons why noone uses compensation for pocket roughing (except may be some parametric and build in programs )you can get into it by yourself. BR

No matter what I try it seems the path wants to start at the machine home position with the initial approach move. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In backplot turn off setting show mii/router home position 2 No matter what I try in dynamic move the tool gets way over engaged after the initial helix in move. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I bet you use helix folowed by full medial burial change entrance typ to helixonly or Helix with trochoid movement HTH

I always blank my parent geo in solids But in surfaces you do not need it at all Thimmed surface build by definition from untrimmed surface so the system keeps parent untrimmed surface and trimming elements in blanked state. So you never need them too. You can delete your cutting geo the trimmed surface will stay safe you can always build in a sec curves with create curve command if you suddenly need them THere is no assosiativity with your curves system keeps curves for description in blanked state. BUt if you WILL mess with BLANKed geo for trimmed surface nothing will help you will screw it. Do not deal with blank entities and you will always drink martini. Or good old whiskey BR

It was long before the age of HSM . It was ancient Iskar insert mill and solid carbide mills for finish. Do not remember speeds and feeds but it was slow Other than that it was no problem Finish surface were regular sold carbide ball mills But nowadays when you have chatter free mills like varimills and HSM It would be no problem IMHO rely to it as 30-40% slower than heavy duty stainless like 316 I WAS MILLING ON VERY OLD AND RIGID OKUMA MILL. To have powerful and rigid nachine and setup is good factor too. Good luck and have fun ,beware of drilling and never tap anything always use threadmilling HTH

I used to mill lot of tungstem.Milling is not a challenge. Drilling ,tapping and boring is. Do not even try to tap a thread alwais threadmill it !

rIght click on the group ->groups->rename and name it as you like Example : rough milling tilted plane 30 degr HTH

We handle the tool entry and exit by using the direction option. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just beware when you doing transform mirror it tends to scrap parts from time to time when you use direction option. At least in X7 but I suppose it is still there

Hey Rickster, what is "Thee Circle"? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Thee circle was a a movement in the days of the big flame war on the Forum . That was a time when I became without brains kinda idiot for the same reason . It was a protest for the lack of justice in some of decisions of former moderators , So you can consider Thee Circle as Tea Circle sort of Tea Party. This is Hush-hush secret of the forum kinda dead body in the locker. Everyone knows and noone will tell you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BR

I used this feature extensivly in my previous job. Have not seen your file ( I run still ver7) I would say most simple can be surface flowline or contour I would prefer contour for a reason that you have more control of the tool lead in - lead out i prefered enter exit by arc but other ways are avaILABLE TOO . BR

Pts2Arcs is not part of the std. install. ~~~~~~~~~~~~` My fault ,Roger . I always download all the c-hooks at the istall time BTW why this is still a c-hook and not a command of standart install. I use it all the time. Move it to the standart set and you will see how people would like to use it. Same for the Arcmultiedit.dll c-hook . Best regards

How are you doing Collin -long time no see It wouldn`t help if one of them use one computer and other one another, Like we are doing here using network for keeping mc files and keeping all user depended files locally every one on his own computer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By saving your settings to the DEFAULTS, you can place your Post in any folder location, and the settings will always remain the same. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Yeah I know . But what definitions and post will use every user in my case ? Those that he keeps in his default place and it is not the same You can have only one set of files on network but I would never trust that someone has not changed something by mistake I make changes than propogate them on the places of other guys who have MC. We are small shop and it is the best way for me

Depends of where you keep your post and definitions and where your partner keeps them, the simple way to do this copy your updated files to the place your partner uses them. The default place is ..\shared mcamx*\mill and ..\shared mcamx*\CNC machines and it can be local place or on network HTH

press Alt+C and select appropriate dll or screen->run user application HTH