Save your solidworks assembly file as a part file.

Absolutely run it in a machine you hate

Ditto Same to you M&M, hope everyone has a great holiday!

Hmmm, you think they'll take my check?

Ztommy, I wanna ask do you know how it became corrupted? Were you bringing your previous config forward or starting fresh with the new install default?

We had used it on our Hermle C600 that had a Heidenhain control.

WOOHOO! I've graduated I'm no longer a Toad! Onward and upward to Botdom!

Was or is this really a bot? I thought Bob's a regular member on here?

Here's a couple that might help. https://www.seelyeplastics.com/engineered-plastics https://precisionpunch.com/machine-grade-polycarbonate-plate/

I know you can right click in the window and select "reset sort" but it will put it to the following: Reset sort Returns the planes grid column sorting to the default sorting.

With our network license I've seen it hang for several minutes acting like it's doing nothing. in the end it's allot of times our network and network securities that I believe are slowing it up. Once it's up it works fine.

Years ago Roger Peterson recommended using the SW certified drivers and whenever i've had issues this has usually taken care of it. Definitely never run on the windows drivers or dell's =(

We've had level issues pop up randomly and yesterday it was issues with the transform also just as stated above.

This may be a dumb question but are all the computers on the same network feed (sorry not sure of the right term). Ex. is the one that is slow say on a splitter or hub that has multiple other computers tied to it thus limiting it's bandwidth?

I believe your right Pete, we used to if I remember create our batch files to generate the NCI's overnight to review them the next day. you were looking at those NCI files to backplot and then post...if I remember correctly...shoot what'd I have for breakfast... oh well let's eat again

That's why I still love and use the wireframe toolpaths to this day!

I find it's a blend of what everyone said. You want the strongest tool you can use but you have to really keep the effective radial angle of engagement in mind that you want to use for the dynamic milling. Right tool for the right job, but more often than not I use what I have on hand

What if you were to create a custom post to output a program with all of your tools being used in the program. If you made it a practice to run that program first before the actual lights out at least someone should have verified the tooling to be run. Or I'm sure there's some smart individuals here or your re-sellar that could put in a custom switch to prompt you at posting if you'd like to post out the tooling first and then the program itself or something along that line.

With the Raster to vector you have a couple of options. Have the file sized appropriately before you import it or bring it in and do your geometry creation at the pictures current size and then scale your geometry. You are stuck with having to manually create everything you wish to have for geometry if you want the picture to be visible while working on it. Saving grace is start with say a bounding box or reference geometry that you can use to generate your ongoing entities from. That way you have a reference to work from. Not as nice as some other software's but doable depending on the complexity of what your striving to go after.

If you use the raster to vector and choose the manually trace bitmap image you can bring an image into your file. And just for reference this was Bugsy who was my test subject

multisurf contour toolpath or even just a 2d swept.

Holy crap I think I need more coffee definitely...this made total sense. I'm going back to bed.

Doing the same thing here =) Good luck to ya and everyone else!

I believe you set it here in your config file:

if you are able to can you open the solidworks assembly in SW and save a copy as a part file? Careful you don't mess up the assembly but you should be able to do this and then open the part file in MC.