Macdac was purchased by Tri-Mech about 2 years ago, as well Compumachine at the same time... My suspicion is several other resellers will be purchased, though not all and Sandvik will take sales and support in house....I have zero info to base that on just how I think they'll move ahead over the coming years

Steve just left my building....scheduled in for some extended time to get our DNC and NCBase up and running... I was part of the S4A > Cimquest transition.....That was just technical on the business side.....no real early changes to the customer experience except several other AE's and services coming available... From all I have heard, early on, no big changes other then how the business end is handled....currently Cimquest is running as it has....

The specs alone take it away from a gaming rig... If you're doing workstation work, buy a workstation.....if you're gaming, buy a gaming rig... That's just how I approach it...

Recommended spec's here https://www.mastercam.com/support/technical-support/system-requirements/

The "Windows" version

I didn't think the "Home Edition" was supported for Mastercam... and my feeling on GEForce cards is well known...they work for others, I won't buy a system without a Quadro/RTX card

Our installation of the Cimco DNC and NCBase begins on Wednesday....I have much laid out already but one question I have... I did ask if NCBase would also take our Mastercam files....I was told it would but it's ability to manage them like say PDMWorks could with revision control wasn't possible. The programs & documentation will be stored within NCBase... So my question, is anyone using NCBase to store their current Mastercam files? Thoughts on how it does?

Hi Pete...indeed, longtime...hope all is well on your end

A piece of geometry, your machine/.control def and post would be helpful This is a Contour Ramp going 1" deep at .125 per N110 G0 G17 G40 G49 G80 G90 ( HELIX ) N120 T287 M6 N130 G0 G90 G54 X-.927 Y.9063 A0. S8500 M3 N140 G43 H287 Z1. N150 Z.1 N160 G1 Z0. F50. N170 G41 D287 X-.957 N180 G3 Z-.125 I.3125 J0. N190 Z-.25 I.3125 J0. N200 Z-.375 I.3125 J0. N210 Z-.5 I.3125 J0. N220 Z-.625 I.3125 J0. N230 Z-.75 I.3125 J0. N240 Z-.875 I.3125 J0. N250 Z-1. I.3125 J0. N260 I.3125 J0. N270 X-.9556 Y.8763 I.3125 J0. N280 G1 G40 X-.9257 Y.8792 N290 G0 Z1. N300 M5 N310 G91 G28 Z0. N320 G28 X0. Y0. A0. N330 M30

Create your toolpath, then use the chook Arc3d

You have "Point" & "Pass"....Point will take you along an entire Z level of the cut......when you get the top, change Pass so that you can get the points along the next Pass and so on if you have multiple depths of cut

This guy is a shill...of that I have zero doubt now

You do understand that anything that gets "changed" and needs to be updated in the nci file NEEDS to be re-genned, right? If you made those changes and it didn't go dirty, when you posted it the changed info would not be in the nci file.

Make sure you have the rights to edit the files in that directory... Also, if Microsoft One Drive is backing up that directory, turn it off. It will rewrite your file after you change it.

This^^^^^ I have seen ZERO reasons to think anything but....user chose not to establish himself as a legal user and came in and has subsequently posted on how "Mastercam needs to change their algorithm" It smacks of another titles troll account. Of course, I don't expect the "hosts" to do anything...sorry

and that was my understanding, linked, yes...does not actually run the gcode...

Vericut has several available modules as add-ons to just the simulation module, with the simulation you use your actual gcode file. It understands macros and has all kinds of reports you can output. You can add probing, Force optimization, Multi-axis, and several other task specific modules. They have recently begun offering a posting companion with it as well. It can be used across a most, if not all CNC machines. It comes with a high price tag but most consider the "Gold Standard" of machine simulation. Camplete is another title with a great deal of ability and it has offering the posting side of it's product from the very beginning I believe. I don't know about their availability across machines though. It may have changed recently, if so someone may speak to that but when I checked several years back, there was a pretty wide swath of machines they could not even offer for purchase. It's abilities place it at the top of the simulation market. Some machines, Matsuura in particular come with a seat of it. To buy it, it is also somewhat pricey. MachSim....my experience with MachSim is admittedly older but as I was told at the time, it, even when purchasing licensing, doesn't use the actual gcode file...not certain this is still accurate but it was at the time in which I was aware of it...it is somewhat limited in abilities, not sure if it is because of Mastercam itself or limitations from Moduleworks...it is the cheaper of these above noted options, substantially cheaper. Probing, Macros, not sure that can be done beyond it just ignoring the code. There is also NCSimul, ICAM and a newer offering by a company, I believe out of Turkey. I won't speak to any of these as my knowledge is admittedly, little to none. I, for one, do not want my simulation coming from the same program I programmed it with... Pricing I won't get specific, if you really want to know, ask the appropriate vendors...there are many variables that factor into pricing.

The difference between Vericut, Camplete & Machsim is like comparing a Rolls Royce = Vericut - Price $$$$ Camplete=Bentley - Price $$$ Machsim= Chevrolet (not a Corvette or even a Camaro) - Price = $

Without seeing the geometry it's impossible to say but I wonder if this is something rolled/unroiled geometry could help with...

Gee, still, no file

lol, yeah, that ain't happening

and Camworks has "Knowledge bases"...is "CAM Assist" better or worse than any other types that already do something very similar? Who knows...certainly not I

The "sales pitch" always sounds good....when the rubber hits the road though is where the truth of the sales pitch will be proven or destroyed... Hell, Mastercam has "Feature Based" machining already...with a bit of upfront work it can be pretty massaged....you'll make toolpath and then have to dig in to clean it up...so from that perspective, I would be leery it's not a whole lot different.

I use the Toolpath Manager settings....have since the inception of "X"....that said, when importing OP's I always end up having to rename them, the tool manager settings don't get applied...new ops created, yup they'll pick it up.;....imported ops, newp

Over the weekend I got a connection ask on LinkedIn from the guy thats seems to be hawking it... Had not even heard of it before...as usual, I am dubious of anything promising a "1 click" solution for manufacturing...but I'll watch, listen & learn and see what it is all about.