You seem to have all the answers, so why bother asking questions here? Either contact Mastercam, or a reseller and see if there is an option, or do not. But to throw a fit on them not supporting 15 year old software seems a little illogical.

Did another regen and it worked quite well. Now, is there a way to force the behavior to stay to up and down motions? Instead of curving out on the right side? I really wish it was more clear how it is making these decisions? I do chalk it up to my learning of unified.

Tool tip seems to work for that situation, then rolls off the surfaces. I need the path to stay with in the surfaces. I have also tried tool axis control with lines, and still does near the same thing.

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I am trying to write a unified 5 axis path. I finally have something that is near perfect to what I want. But for some reason, it is shortening the path at a certain point for no reason I can figure out, and is not finishing the whole surface. I even turned off any collision and deleted any collisions surfaces. but I still get the same result. You can see in one picture it is cutting to the edge of the surface, then shortly after it shortens the path for some mysterious reason. By the time I get to the end it goes back to the edge of the surface. I have modified the reference surface for the tilt so many ways, but they all get the same result.

I thought I just gave one example. Can you import the certain geometry from a previously created solid feature? I know you can make duplicates of a solid and modify, but sometimes I just want a certain shape I already made from another solid feature. But then again my work flow is not the same for every one. Every program has goods and bads.

And everyone is going to use what they prefer. I am just saying there are things inside of mastercam I can do that My counter part in solidworks cannot. I have been using mastercam to design and make parts ever wince they released solids in Version 8? or was it 7? Anyhow, little things like using similar geometry from a solid I already have, I can import all that geo and get to work on a new part. Anyhow it works for me, I am able to pull off some great designs. Been able to model an organic looking dragon biting the barrel of a paintball gun inside mastercam. So basically you can do anything you want if you understand it well enough.

I know people complain about modeling in Mastercam, but I prefer Mastercam to most anything else. I can do things faster than my counterpart in Solidworks. Especially if I have a similiar product and I just want to modify. Now I do wish we could pull solids from a linked location like solidworks does. So if I make a change it would modify all the reast of the files using that file.

This was it, Thank you!

This on my verify is just making it under cut instead of showing the shank rubbing. If I turn it on, it just verifies like it was cutting the material.

The title says it, Anyway to get Verify to stop as a collision instead of just showing it cutting material? I thought it did a ways back.

We currently have 2 5 axis machines. Both are a Matsuura, MX520, and MAM72-35v. I am still a rookie in 5 axis machine, I am competent in programming them. James form the forms, came here through Selway and did an amazing job helping us get moving. Right now, how we are setup, we have one g54 work coordinate. And with the post through camplete. I can do any angle and the post moves the work coordinate around in g68.2 and such. Very nice to have one work coordinate and make sure complex parts. If the parts needs to move, we can probe it and it will be moved around appropriately in any angle. My question is our next machine purchase. I am stuck between 2 machines. Mx330 which would be an easy drop in to our work flow, post would be complete, and our understanding of the equipment would make it seamless to me and our shop. As much as I love Matsuuras, I feel a Brother U500XD1 would be a better machine for the parts we want to setup for this equipment. The brother should make the product line we want much faster. So I am trying to understand how the brother would work. Do I need to now setup a new coordinate for every 5 axis location? They have g68.2, But if I am understanding right, they are not doing what the Matsuuras are doing by finding center of the rotation. Does anyone know how the brother 5 axis would function? is it possible to use a postability post and have it adjust g68.2 everywhere so we have one coordinate? Appreciate any help, my dealer is not being as easy with information.

That makes sense why I am getting this behavior, just did not realize this option was effecting the start position. I did go check, and yes this is changing the g01 and g00 at the start of the path. I thought this option was just for connecting the paths inside the tool path, since I am clicking it under the clearance blend spline option in linking. I did find another way around it, and placed a point tool path to position the tool first in g00. Then the tool path will continue with the feed rate as originally set.

Not sure why it is only multi axis paths, but for example on a multi axis deburr path. It will position in G01 at a high feed rate, and carry this high feed rate up till the path. Which when proofing a program, and the machine moves at a high rate towards your pallet when you thought the rapid was at 10%. Well, quite frankly, will make you pucker. This is a modified mpmaster post. Is there somewhere to change this behavior? T49 M06 (0.125 SPHERICAL / BALL-NOSED ENDMILL) M22 (UNLOCK) G01 G17 G90 G56 G94 B270. X-1.1144 Y-1.7801 S10000 M03 F3811.51 G43 H49 Z1.8603 T46

Just ran the benchmark for my latest cam system, cleared 1 min 52 seconds. also while doing a file transfer backing up my NAS system. Mastercam 2022 some of my other programs that used to take 6 minutes to regen, finished around 3 minutes 15 seconds, huge improvement over my last system.