How much other stuff is unpredictable or random in MC ? 

like the way the arrow of doom jumps around sometimes and not others. If I want to move it I would rather do it myself!

I've noticed that some things like a line will not disappear when u escape out of the line manager but other stuff like letters will vanish unless u click that stupid green check mark.

( I call it stupid because it randomly works with enter and mostly not.) I wonder how to tell when that will work too. And why can't it  always work?

On 1/26/2019 at 2:30 PM, Michael K said:

that doesnt do anything.

like i said not likely.

wer back to Ghosie to blame. why not use simple solids. u can always convert later if required.

I remember flipping around lots  modeling a pistol grip for an assault rifle from prints. it sucked but finally worked well enough.

I used to do that, until China took over the industry twelve or fourteen years ago.

I was not bad. too much polishing on molds gave me my start with tendonitis ...fun times!

ya, then merge it back in after deleting the original, and reallocate all the geometry to the tool paths?

I'm fairly convinced, at times, that there is a mischievous Ghost in the computer.

I have found the strangest things done to files and settings when there were no events or people to cause these things.

so if its a setting, u can blame him. lol

15 hours ago, Michael K said:

Where is the shading dialog?

View,-  Appearance-, the little corner button bottom right.

I'm not saying that the same problem has survived 15 years of updates since V9 was out, but u can always explore the possibilities.

some setting in there may fix it.

6 minutes ago, 5th Axis CGI said:

You lost me with the Core Type Toolpath.

I spoke of the Dynamic mill , he talked about dynamic contour and you , about opti rough... looks like we are all screwed up.

47 minutes ago, generaldisarray said:

no stock defined

yup I make a rectangle the size of the rough block and chain it as the machining region.

18 hours ago, Michael K said:

 i have other things modelled so it is in shaded mode and surface spheres are just represented by their centre point, not even a wireframe

With the old V9 we used to get stuff stuck in between shaded and not some surfaces would disappear like you describe .

we would open the shading dialog and select all entities , toggle it off and on and the shading would correct.

the surface sphere in my 2018 works fine. 

On 1/21/2019 at 4:27 PM, Michael K said:

no model at all

are u sure that it is not just unshadded? try alt-s

Give that pc a stern talking to! "WORK" or else!!!

11 hours ago, Glenn Bouman said:

under misc values you can set this to 1 for G54 only output.

ahh of course there are more ways to do it! after all this is Mastercam! 

By the way how about that other button... rotation type? in rotary axis control

Thanks Glen

Thank you old bear and 5th axis for the quick fix. this place is great!

So as long as i've got your attention...

What is the rotary axis positioning button for?

It does weird stuff and not... 

Hey all,

I am sorta new to the 4th axis world, Can't seem to see why the posted file has g55 and g56 etc. when I change tool planes.

some times but not others. I am only using g54.

1 minute ago, TimW said:

extra step to countersink

if its a whole setup I C. ... if it's hundreds of parts you could put a step on some flatheads to mimic the button heads. it may be worth it.

I can't see mc mixing surface acknowledgement into a two D path like u got.

Why not switch to flat heads? or something shorter...

9 minutes ago, gcode said:

trim menu

Here lies the trouble , I have my trim hotkey  "ALT-comma"  set to trim break extend. 

That is why I didn't see it .... now I remember, that is why I put the whole trim menu in my QAT. 

I still don't see the logic in having so many break buttons. it's a strange world.

thanks again G

ok I found it but I don't see why it is not in the normal trim box , because break is there....

weird.

thanks G code,

but, Where did they hide "break 2 pieces"? not in trim? I don't see it.

So let me say WTF ...

I spent at least 5 minutes trying to break an arc at its' midpoint! apparently this can no longer be done????

So I made a point there and MC still can't use it? I ended up creating a line just so I could break the arc!!!! 

I can't believe some of the amazing advances in tech. like that. it used to take one hot key and two screen clicks. 

now I end up around the block by the time stuff gets done!

 While I'm ranting ... how can the depth control for opti rough git hidden in a place called "steep/shallow"?????

even my grandson laughed at that!

5 minutes ago, LucasGC said:

Has anyone had experience with this?

v 9 used to do that now and then... the text would be changed like that. then it would go back by itself! lol

I think they the same thing , just the name is changed.

it should not matter.

.

9 minutes ago, CJep said:

Wholly crap, you went from Mcam V9 to Mcam 2018?

That's like working with a different program

To be honest I'd had a few brushes with X5 and I think X7... but only a few months at most. it did help.