Ok ,I am relieved . You got me with alt.machines.cnc mentioning . I hate that place and you know why ,I suppose . I also programmed from machine zero once ,and I can do it once more if I`ll need and there wouldn`t be other way ,but I `d never like it . I am for better,safer,simpler ways as much as possible . Close to this were some of my really dirty ways of 4 axes work I did once on Okuma with bare hands (pencilCam) ,writing programs by hand while programmer with Cimatron was not able and had no wish to make normal program . In most of cases this style is indication of not healthy and not normal situation ,that`s just my humble opinion .

Easy ,guys ,easy .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some in this forum are starting to sound like they came from alt.machines.cnc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes ,many of us run away from it LOL ! I was there for a long time . What`s wrong ? It seems the dialog can turn to a flame war . To start a new flame out of nothing ? Everyone can say what he likes ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Programming from Machine 0 has got to be THE most retarded thing I've ever heard of in a machine shop next to Endmills that cut square inside corners. The biggest problem with this is that if you don't have the same machine they do you're hosed. Even if it is the same, you're still hosed because every machine is different. It may only be .001 or .002 different but diferent is different. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a personal opinion in very strong words ,but it is not intended to offend noone . I would say it different - I would stay away from it as far as it possible ,but still this is only my personal opinion .

If you do not have solids you can use Volume.dll c-hook FYI: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C-Hook Name: Volume.dll/txt Date: July 8, 1997 Programmer: CNC Software Usage: Calculates VOLUME from .nci, while simultaneously creating a .vol in default nci directory for later recall. Volume in cubic inches and gallons supported. Price: No Charge Notes: Create surface or surfaces with highest point beginning at Z0. Create a multisurface nci file with OneWay cutterpath and 0 degree angle. Rapid height should be set above surface (Ex: 1.0). Run the volume C-Hook (calculates volume in cubic inches and gallons). Temporary geometry written to and deleted from level 255. Examples: VOLUMEC.MC7 / VOLUMEC.NCI (CUBE) VOLUMES.MC7 / VOLUMES.NCI (SPHERE) VOLUMEB.MC7 / VOLUMEB.NCI (BARREL) VOLUMEE.MC7 / VOLUMEE.NCI (ELLIPSOID) VOLUMECY.MC7 / VOLUMECY.NCI (CYLINDER) Distributor: CNC Software 344 Merrow Road Tolland, CT 06084-9970 Contact: CNC Software Phone: (860) 875-5006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ tips to use it This old C-hook works nicely in ver9 too. You mill your model from the inside with tool ball mill 0.01 mm dia toolpath parallel model phisically upper height z0 in posting stage save nci file use it for volume c-hook Example of report file Volume.dll report ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***************************** Total volume = 652.426016 cubic mm ( 0.000652 liters ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a report from Solid area/volume calculation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Current Mastercam File (MC9) Name = C:CNCTRYVOL.MC9 Thu Oct 28 12:40:15 2004 Volume = 654.498469 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You see ,rather accurate calculation HYLI HTH

This is erowa holders ,my holders are more enchanced and universal . As you see ,masters (setting tools) and gripping devices from steel ,holders from bronze . I think it is tin bronze . My universal holder (custom design) : I can grip any round or square part without premilling up to 25 mm ,or any part with 10*10square bar profile length 50 mm min in the bottom or any plate style electrode up to 150*150 .] I made holders for bigger electrodes too I made custom holders (kneeLtype ) ,center-finders,angle splitters and so on all from bronze and alluminium . The bronze milling and drilling /threading is supereasy and fast ,uncompareble to any steel ! I run set-up for 50-100 electrodes from time to time ,milled electrode has no need for set-up in edm ,we keep them gripped in holder till there is no need for changes or repair and use them next time . Bronze have no chance to get corrozion on edm or wireedm ,strong enough for heavy milling of electrodes on mill cnc ,easy and fast in milling , and not so pricey as it looks

Windows Xp sp2 firewall (it`s settings) blocked it +1000 to make a forum search ,it is covered fairly well

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~~~~~~~~~~~ p.s. what's JMHO?? and +1000?? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +1 means me too +1000 means I agree with you ,you are absolutly right ! JMHO just my humble opinion HTH hope that helps HYLI hope you like it

use this ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Skip lines starting with Defines that the lines starting with a particular string and/or characters should be omitted. Multiple strings can be specified using a ',' as separator. If you wish to omit lines beginning with ',', specify with ',,'. ~~~~~~~~~~

Why ,all the instructors are there !

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Methinks you can download the latest version somewhere ~~~~~~~~~~~ +1000 Anyway , if you do not want to do it (no reason not to do it ,JMHO ),I have a solution for you , but I do not like to go into details ,I think do what Chris sais ,much better !

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OK I have been watching and wondering for awhile. Why do you have a negitive post count? -972 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An answer

~~~~~~~~~~~ chris, my ver is 4.21.14 and I don't see any "renumber empty lines" box ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Setup->block numbers

Nc -functions ->remove blank lines

You need to update Hasp driver http://www.emastercam.com/patches/v9/hasp/hdd32.zip http://www.emastercam.com/patches/v9/hasp/hinstall.zip ~~~~~~~~~~~ hinstall.zip - 06/2003 - V4.95 of the Commandline HASP Driver Installation Utility. Signed driver for Windows XP. Setup Instructions. hdd32.zip - 06/2003 - V4.95 of the GUI HASP Driver Installation Utility. Signed driver for Windows XP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

WinXP ?

...MILL OR DESIGNsamplesTitle blocks (the name of a block depends of a paper size you select (A0 ,A1 and so on or A0_mm for metric system ) That`s just my humble opinion .Try and see HTH

Ask your questions rr

I want ot know more spec . What routering ,firewall,proxy ,web browser . Can you ftp ,what your internet security settings and so on ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They tried a registry cleaner on one of them, a spyware program thinking that could be the problem, and it didn't help. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~` You must disable PChealth settings before cleaning in XP Best regards

Bruce ! not db.obf but db.ovf In screen->configure ->files->data pathes ->temporary files specify the right path to your temporary folder by default commontemp Take note :for multyusers and multysessions the best thing to specify to every user his own temporary folder HTH [ 10-26-2004, 03:07 AM: Message edited by: Bunny McRabbit ]

Look here and here for an answer Make a search in Forum ,you`ll find more HTH

May be you have some suppressed features(unsuppress ) or moved up stop on icon (end of the binary tree ) ?!?

It means MC not finds the spec.TTF . Put it in Winntfonts folder

My pleasure. BTW,ask MC specific questions in the Mastercam main forum and you`ll get much faster and better help HTH

~~~~~~~~~~ is there a way other than manually deleting the toolpaths and tools for the original drawing? ~~~~~~~~~~ yes.close it for postprocessing right click ->options ->posting -off HTH

in Operation manager select operations ->right click ->sort ->by tool number Take note -> In most cases this is no way back action ,so before doing it you better backup your file to the other file name HTH