quote: The conditions were outright deplorable...I was told not to talk to any of the employees while being escorted around by a Major Pei of the People's Republic of China... That must have been quite an experience Jack, hopefully Mao Tse-Tung does not monitor this forum or he might track you down.

What tool type are you defining?

Back to the original question about Nethasp usage. Did you try the Nethasp Monitor program that is on Disk 2 or here? Here are Mastercam product codes. 2 Mill Entry 3 Mill Level 1 4 Mill Level 2 5 Mill Level 3 6 Lathe Entry 7 Lathe Level 1 8 Wire 9 Design 10 Solids 11 Router Entry 12 Router Level 1 13 Router Level 2 14 Router Level 3 15 Art Entry 16 Art Level 1 17 Art Level 2 18 Art Level 3 19 Five Axis 30 Nesting 31 Engraving 32 Curve 5 Axis 33 Five Axis 37 Pro E 38 Rast2Vec 39 Verify 5 Axis 40 Cat V5 in 41 Cat V5 out 42 Cat V4

This issue has been fixed in X2

This has been fixed in X2, you can extract these files to your X directory to fix the problem. new fonts

quote: RTM means we ship a master out for duplication so the print house can assemble 20,000+ packages for our Maintenance customers, Reseller stock, and our stock. That is a several week process as you could imagine. How is that relevant since updates are available on-line?

I have seen this also, try switching to the "Windows Standard" File open dialog style. You can do this with the Mastercam X icon in your windows Control panel. X2 does not suffer from this problem as it uses the "windows" style but still supports file preview.

Do a Zip2go on the file that you are working on and email it to your dealer.

quote: but I get an error for each contour "the agie datta file coud not be found, use agie chook" WHAT DO I DO TO FIX!! AHHH!!! Click on the AgieVision icon in the lower left corner of the first wirepath parameter page.

quote: I think he must have slipped an extra 0 in there.I saw the actual part at a Haas Demo Day a couple of years ago and he had the those settings engraved right into the part.

Checkout www.robotmaster.com, it works with Mastercam. See these links link1 link2 link3

quote: Im running V9 and whenever I file/get in mc9 file,I see nothing. In your windows explorer, go tools, Folder options, view and uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"

quote: My boss has done it again. Getting into something we never had any experience doing. That's what keeps your job from getting too boring.

Try http://www.datakit.com/ they have a 3 day eval. Or http://www.cimmetry.com/autovue.html which will allow you to view only. These will show the 2d drawings and dimensions from Catia.

Email your files to your dealer so they can check it out. In your case [email protected]

This article from John Nelson, Haas Applications Manager has some info on tolerances using Mastercam http://www.haascnc.com/solutions_3D.asp#3D It recommends 0.00002" cut tolerance for the perfect finish.

It defaults to what you used last, just like it works now. There is now modality with ribbon bar functions.

X2 allows undo and redo of Xform with solids.

I haven't used Predator DNC in awhile. Does it still take 57 mouse clicks to change the baud rate?

It has been talked about before. http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/ultimatebb.p...1009;p=1#000003 I have sent this issue to CNC X2 behaves the same way, so maybe more people should send in this issue.

You can add the Macro call to a Icon button in Solidworks to make it appear seamless.

Here is a part that uses Solidworks hole wizard to define the holes. Plate

quote: How are your C-Hook skills? [smile] That might be quicker... Not as good as yours Pete. Are you saying that you are against writing this function into the software? Or does everybody have to write their own chook to do this? This has been requested for years. request1 request2 request3

Hard to tell without looking at your part. You could also use the Ref Point option to specify the retract point.

Jay, do you have the PVCNC.DLL for X for Predator?