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I don't use it any longer but if memory serves me, there is an option in the free Verisurf utilities that can do that.. I usually just use Analyze Dynamic to see if the surface is 0° against the plane

The answer is, don't create a large number of stock models... As noted above, once you create it, save it as a mesh and delete the stock model....doing it in this method you'll not have any, except perhaps the final one one,,, Though I will note, the more complex a stock model gets, it will slow....don't over tighten those stock model tolerances....doing that will eventually hurt performance, even in just 1 stock model... One thing I do is I will create a stock model....and I will keep adding to it incrementally as I go along until that position is finished....I then create a pmesh...and continue in the next position using the pmesh as stock and again incrementally adding OPs to the current stock model until again I get to the end of the position...save a pesh, next position, new stock model using the previous pmesh as the stock.. In doing it this way, I have 4 positions on a tombstone and only 4 stock stock models

When in need, draw the tool path you want....I still do it on occasion

Not any real help I know but we've been running update 3 since it was released and none of us has experienced any issue as you're seeing.

It's not about getting it done, I too have "gotten it done" it's the tool set...the basic 2D CAD to this very day is not much beyond where Autocad was was back in the 90's. That just is...

Just becasue you can pick a specialized function or 2, it doesn't make their CAD tools good. I make my living using this tool and I'm just calling a spade a spade. I sued to bark at our sales guy too while sitting in a demo and he's selling like it's a full blown CAD system...I'd say to him in the car, "greeat, but I have to support this and it ain't that"

You can call Mastercams "CAD" tools many things....."amazing" isn't one of them... Rudimentary & basic are more accurate.

Yeah, def get back with them and see if you can get the complete files..that should go a long way

Who provided the "post?" Seems to me they should also have provided proper machine & control defs, otherwise the post alone is essentially useless. You likely should have an .mmd file .control file .psb file & .pst file

Give your reseller a shout

In a case as such, while it "can" be done the way I do thing, the dynamic fixture offsetting is EASILY the appropriate and easier way to do it...IF you have a control with that functionality..you'll get no argument from me on that point. Honestly, it I was doing that kind of work, I'd look into pin locations, stop blocks in known locations....it "would" then be a lot easier to do what I am doing...but out in speace, here sits the part...no, not really going to work well. yup, becasue I set it up that way Never used to be like that here..... Now that build fixtures to the sizes I give them, they set the program to run a single part...run it off, many times parts are in tolerance and can be 1st piece'd....then theu turn on either OP1 or Face 1, run it, prove it...turn on face 2/op2, rinse and repeat.... A lot of work went in to getting to this point.

Ummmm, yeah...no you don't

Tell you what. I learned at first simply becasue I wanted to...nothing more, nothing less. Doing so has served my exceedingly well. Any place I went to work in a shop, I was able to get the posts dialed in the way they needed to be...it served me well in my years working for a Reseller between edits that would come in and going out on the road to people's places and get them dialed in... It has left me for the most part 100% self-sufficient. In my current employ, I have bought several posts for machines I "could" have done myself, if, I had the time to do so....but even then, changes that I can make to my purchased post, I handle myslef. I not only did it to learn a skill but it has helped me be vastly more successful than I would otherwise have been. Knowledge is power

It works..4 parts down a single tombstone face....straight from the post (G54.1P1 - B90. - PART - ) (X0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Y0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 TOP OF PART) G90G10L20P1X0.Y-6.2173Z-19.2175 (G54.1P4 - B90. - PART - ) (X0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Y0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 TOP OF PART) G90G10L20P4X0.Y-11.0973Z-19.2175 (G54.1P7 - B90. - PART - ) (X0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Y0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 TOP OF PART) G90G10L20P7X0.Y-15.9773Z-19.2175 (G54.1P10 - B90. - PART - ) (X0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Y0 CENTER OF LOCATING PIN) (Z0 TOP OF PART) G90G10L20P10X0.Y-20.8573Z-19.2175 (TOTAL NUMBER OF OFFSETS 4)

I did. I gave you a link to the same file I started with...

Your center of rotation for the machine should be the basis for everything you build.... It will calculate from the Center of Rotation, location and angle of your part origins...

It needs to be added into your post.. It doesn't matter how big your machine is. All that matters is how you set everything up in the CAM

It's a z2g file...rename the z2g to zip and unzip it

There was a G10 post that someone had shared years ago, though I forget who did it but copy the logic out of that and done deal.. I saved it to my Dropbox...I don't take credit for the original work https://www.dropbox.com/s/7acw1y4rzuakm7d/G10_HMC.Z2G?dl=0 I build all my models and parts in "real world" space based on the WCS origin...

I calculate and post mine right out of Mastercam

Yeah Colin, I boned it...I was likely thinking of the prv_ series of pre-defined variables...

I think you need to be a Reseller to have access to that feature

Myself, I use internal subs, they are posted at the bottom of my programs, after the M30...as such, every program can have the exact sames used again and again becasue you're going to call an external sub....my 1st sub is always N40001, N40002, N40003...etc... I have programs that have 150 subs in there....the question method could work but in some case, no one is going to want to answer the same question over and over and over, when you can automate it and never worry about it again. JM2C YMMV

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