You can backup your configs as far as i know. Then you could import all your settings at the new place.

We're using it with Heidenhain controls and it just lists all the Heidenhain probing cycles. Combined with a Heidenhain manual it's self explaining. I'm pretty happy with it, it does all of the stuff I need to do without any macro programming or modifying code.

It's very cluttered opening it the first time. You can disable most of the docking panes for the beginning and just activate what you really need. And you need to define the stock and other stuff in a different window before starting MachSim. I use both the MachSim and verify depending on what I need.

We're using CIMCO probing, you should be able to get a trial version from your reseller to test.

I like that tip comp is now on the same page but the radio buttons are better. Seems like an unecessary change.

I don't understand the problem. If you have the RAM why not use it?

If you look at the performance, Intel is still the king. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html (I chose single thread so the server cpu's wouldn't be on the list) But if your looking for the better value, in the midrange sector AMD is leading https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html

The newest high performance Intel CPU's are the i7 13700k and the i9 13900k

Seems a bit slow, I don't have much experience with Win11 so far. Are there any energy saving settings activated?

Which Mastercam version do you have? In the newer ones you can edit the meshes. I never really used it much myself. Something like trim by surface would work (I use a german installation, so I don't know the exact names).

It's not bad but compared to the newest desktop CPU's there is noticeable perfomance difference. It's not a real world test but check this comparison: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-9880H-vs-Intel-Core-i9-13900K/m750169vs4129

What CPU do you have? On my System, that's usually the bottleneck. I would buy the fastest i7 or i9 before I would spend a lot of money on a GPU for Mastercam.

On the hardware side there is not much difference anymore. The driver support is different, the drivers for the Quadro cards are made for industry use (not Entertainment and Gaming like Geforce). They're supposed to be more stable but didn't experience any problems in the last years.

The forum is often not working properly, so that's no surprise.

Thanks for your help! The only thing I don't like about this, the tool moves a little bit in the rotational axis. Is there a way to make the tool stay perpendicular to the surface?

I'm looking for ways to programm the easy stuff a bit faster. So let's imagine I have a cube with threads on each side. I want to drill the hole, deburr the edge and then use a tap for the thread. My usual routine would be the 5 axis drill operation for drilling and tapping, where i could just click on all the solid features and that's it. But for deburring I use a 2d contour, which means I have to set a cplane for every side I have a thread. Is there an operation where I don't need set the cplane and use a deburrer 90°. The multiaxis deburring only works with ball mills as far as i know. I have attached an example file. test.mcam

You could also run userbenchmark (https://www.userbenchmark.com/ ) It shows you if the perfomance of your system is comparable with other results with the same hardware.

Try changing the Task manager GPU monitor to Cuda. I don't know what kind of calculations Mastercam does but for example when I'm rendering 3D animations it uses Cuda cores and the graph goes up to 99% for most of the rendertime.

Axile is from Taiwan and is using a lot of Heidenhain/Kessler components for the the important bits. We have an Axile DC12 since this summer, if you have any questions. Besides the Axile we have Reiden and Mikron machines, but they're twice as expenisive.

Looks good! I'm programming moulds with multiaxis paths on a 10 year old pc (i7 and 32gb ram). For sure it could be faster but if you're mostly doing 2D paths and simple 3D paths it wouldn't make a difference. How big are your parts you're programming?

95% I use dynamic toolpaths with high-feed mill, so far it always worked!

Can you share a picture of the solid model and a small explanation of your problem? Maybe I can help you.

We have a Mikron UCP1500 that's still running good after 15 years in production. It also depends where you're based. Based in Switzerland, we still get good support from Mikron but that would maybe be different in Asia or North America.

Video tutorial on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDcaZ-6ZGco This was all I needed to build a 5 axis machine simulation in Mastercam.

The Geforce FX 5200 came out nearly 20 years ago. So I don't know how recent these notes are.