We're looking to add a CAD package here. I have Mastercam and Rhino right now, we're doing more design work and need something more. I 'm looking to demo solidworks and spaceclaim. Our current projects are trim fixtures for aerospace. Any thoughts, suggestions, ease of use on these CAD packages?

I use gradient background, horizontal, start 0 - end 253. (black to a dark blue)

I went back in and checked again and did fine that in the Configuration files > Default Machines> Mill Machine Definition was on the wrong one, replaced it and so far everthing works. Thanks Colin and Todd

Group machine successfully replaced with machine from: C\users\public\documents\shared mcamx7\CNC_MACHINES\MILL DEFAULT.mm7 I'm getting this message on start up of X7 and can't seem to figure out how to get rid out it. When I check all my settings they seem to be right. What I'm i missing?

And I thought this was just happening to me, Too long a session, too many sessions open or one I’m suspicious of is hit doing the commands too fast.

I've had one like that for years for the same reason, i call it the plunger

Maclaw, can you have "unit/min" and "inverse feed" both checked?

Colin CONGRATULATION on getting married!! Sounds like things are going your way back there. May all your ups and downs be between the sheet1!! Best of wishes to you and your bride

Colin, I'd like to see that too. I'm have some 5 axis projects I'd like to have better control on. Oh and hows it going on the other coast?

I knew you guys would figure it out. Thanks for all the help!

It turns out I had all my ops locked…except one. When posting, it posted up to that one unlocked op then reposted all the other ops as a new post. Locked them all it got them all on one post.

Why when i post separate ops together does it post once then starts over and i end up have two posts? Oh never mind I think i figured it out.

Try blend, that should do it for you.

Ok, that was it. I had Adobe version 10 so i upgraded to 11 and it works now. Oh and you have to down load 11. The update won't up date to 11 from 10 Thank you

I've look every where on the PDF for the cross section tool and can't find it. I check with the help menu and it says you have to activate it when you creat athe PDF., can't find/figure that out either. can anyone walk me through it?

WOW! That is cool. I just made a 3D PDF and WOW!. That will help immensely when communicating with customers. Thank you very much

Yes, all in the same direction and all were pick from the upper left hand corner, which was how I picked them in PROJ 1

I have two projects that I want to clean up the flat flange around my work pieces. the first one "PROJ 1" worked out great. I selected the outer boarder then the island boarders and the tool path did excatly what I wanted. The second 'PROJ 2" I selected eveything the same way but it failed. One row it wants to cut on the inside instead of going around the outside edges. I've tried revresing the chains, didn't work; change sides didn't work. Nothing I do will get it to go around the islands. All chains were pick excacly the same so I'm not sure why one set is cut on the inside the other on the outside (like I want). I looked around and found that 2d Area Mill in the Surface HIgh speed tool paths will get me what I need but I'm still stumbed as to why the island pocketing doesn't work.

That'd be great Aaron

Thanks Aaron, i like that toggle switch

Good information here. Another thing I do is save copies of "my mcamx6" and "Shared MCamx6"

Update for everyone. Did a bit more investigating on this and found I could project on to the model from the top, the left side and the front but I could not project onto it from the right, front or a custom view. I opened another model from this customer and pretty much the same thing. Went back and open a model from a different customer, a car rear end, it has lots of surfaces and very much a freeform shape. Projected some lines on to it and not problem. I could project on to it from any view I wanted. At this point I needed another seat of Mastercam to open and try this so I called my locale MC dealer and he opened my model and tried project lines on to it and got just what I was getting. He took the model and ran it in SpaceClaim and was able to clean it up enough to make a solid. Sent I back to me and no more surface project fails. The whole problem was bad cad work with over-lap’s and spaces between surfaces. So after a frustrating day it all came down to a bad model.

Thanks Colin, I did that already, just check to see if anyone had a similar problem

yes, MU2 is installed

I’ve had X6 installed and working for sometime now and it’s worked fine, be it for a few glitches. Anyway all of a sudden, last week to be exact, X6 crashes when I try to project on to more that one surface. I use project lines/splines (this was a line I was trying to project) to surfaces a lot and haven’t had a problems till now, anyone have any ideas before I reinstall X6. I did a search and couldn’t find anything.