That's the thing, it's not fraud if the accident caused damage to your property. Is it still functional? Maybe, but that's still damage that you are paying damage against. You bet that would come off your resale value. Now the level of damage, sure - but depending on the investigator they'll just mark it as damaged, the office will look up the value and determine if you just get paid out to replace.

That's wild Colin glad you and your family are safe. Something to consider too is if say your TV is even scratched, you could submit a claim under renters insurance, new couch etc. It might feel a little bad because your stuff isn't wrecked, but you pay a lifetime into insurance for times like these, and people who are much more well off jump through much smaller hoops. Again glad everyone is safe because those pictures are scary

Just a followup to this - we had the same problem on 2019 pop up on a laptop, the workaround was it didn't have full Admin rights, we had to run as administrator

If you don't have a subprogram and the control is set to subprogram 'BEFORE' main, an EXT file is posted, with a blank NC file. Previous versions MPmaster didn't do this

You ever get this working? I have the path working out okay but it always puts an "NCI" in the the file extention so things post as: *.NCI.NC ... this sucks because it hoses file paths

This is great thanks Colin, I might be seeing what Terrance is talking about as well. In every past version of Mastercam, once I updated the Machine & Control, and Post files, if I sent those files to someone else they could then put then in a folder, and see them on the 'Manage List' window for adding machine definitions to lists of selections. If I use the migration utility to go from 2018 to 2019 or 19-20, this list is populated correctly - but if I then grab these now 'updated' mcam-mmd, mcam-control and .pst (why can't we change that extension already!!!) and send them to someone on the updated version, they can't see those files in the 'Manage list' window.

Frank, I'm having this exact issue on one computer out of six, all running the same 2019 build version of mastercam, all running the same post/machine/control def. I'm sure you got on with your life, but I'm going to try to solve right now and will post back

right good point

Hi Ajmer!

Extend to infinity pretty much what it says it is - take your tool and imagine it is as long as infinity, going back into your machine. It is useful if you have a cut angle that you know might run your head into something - you can add a tilt /avoidance strategy. Also very useful to control machines that don't have a physical tool (like spraying or blasting)

I think he just wants what Roger mentioned outputting vector information can be done in the post but is not for the faint of heart; even experienced programmers will find matrix calculations frustrating at first blush in post. NEThook would be easy enough to write jlw, how bad you want something? If you only need to do this once, and having a unit vector (i,j,k) is okay. You can save the file as a .STEP then open it as a text file. iThere will be a section for each line, you can search/replace everything else to just be left with points / vector (Direction) ie: 104=LINE('',#101,#103); #105=CARTESIAN_POINT('',(0.869525945998740,-1.491090563615069,1.013089119252023)); #106=TRIMMED_CURVE('',#104,(PARAMETER_VALUE(0.0),#101),(PARAMETER_VALUE(1.0),#105),.T.,.PARAMETER.); #107=CARTESIAN_POINT('',(0.618476426778893,0.380408095902425,0.708966688719660)); #108=CARTESIAN_POINT('',(0.618476426778893,0.380408095902425,0.708966688719660)); #109=DIRECTION('',(0.851776802699722,0.523904837143769,0.0)); #110=VECTOR('',#109,1.0);

I'm worried about the grain & knots on that neck. Looks cool but that thing might MOVE

Corian is great stuff!! thanks for the accoya suggestion - I didn't know about that and it looks really solid. We use a lot of mahogany & Sapele - I'm amazed at how well they do outside with little effort. I just made a sign out of Walnut for... some reason - I saw a great walnut sign that seemed to have withstood the San Diego sun, but time will tell on mine

Engraving toolpaths can work, but you can probably achieve that desired look using 2-D pocket & contour, along with an engraving bit to chamfer edges, and use different depths. The nice thing is the things you learn in Mastercam from this are applicable to all sorts of other work

Some tools come and go but the big red toolbox is a fixture in the shop - Happy to have the staff at CNC.