I had to do this once in the past. First download a Hebrew font. Then create a drafting note using the Hebrew font. Then there is a way to change the drafting note into a wireframe....that is the only step I cannot remember how to do.

G90 G54 G0 X0. Y0. G43 H20 Z.1 G95 (IPR FEED) M80 S200 G84 G98 Z-.75 R.05 F.05 X1.9517 Y.112 G80 G94 M9 this works on all of our Fanuc based Matsuura's.

I have discovered that not all dual contact are the same. What you are describing with "excessive deformation" I doubt could happen. Is very common to run both "regular" holders and big plus in the same spindle. What is more dangerous (& I have seen with with a certain well known popular brand ) is a big-plus holder that makes contact with the spindle face before it makes contact with the taper. The holder rattles around & fvcks up the spindle taper.

I realize what you are saying. I get it. The problem I have with defining a facemill is illustrated right here Do a contour toolpath with this tool and it drives it as a 2.94 diameter tool, when it clearly is a 3" diameter.

What I was getting at was something like this: That is a facemill. Not a high feed cutter. Agreed my example was of a high feed cutter.

Ok, what if my 2" diameter facemill has a 1/4" radius? Use a bullmill?

And here is why you don't want to define the facemill as a 1.764 diameter cutter. dynamic face and contour.mcam

Ok, I'll bite. See attached file, nub city. High feed cutters are way easy to duplicate this problem. No I don't want to define my 2" diameter cutter as a 1.764 diameter facemill. dynamic face.mcam

Their voucher program is pretty nice. We don't use a ton of their inserted milling cutters, but you can load up on boring bars, turning holders, inserts ect. It doesn't have to go on the machine that the voucher is good against. Hell we bought a laser & they gave us a tooling voucher for that Their selection of solid carbide drills is among the best.

I just updated the other day. I jumped in head deep & overwrote my old install (after I made a backup) The new UI is an improvement. So far I have not had any issues. Took a minute or 2 to find some of the controls, but not bad at all. Yes there is a MC2018 plug in....the same one that worked for CamPlete 2015 & MC2018 works on the new version. Compared to the V4 CamPlete (which is what I had till this year) the new stuff hits it out of the park.

I take it DME doesn't have a 18" OAL one in stock so they will have to do the cut & stuff thing? MSC has a 22" OAL one, guessing that DME has that one also.

I was pleased to find that a model was included on a CD when we purchased our Matsuura MX-330. Didn't even have to ask for it. Getting one from Mori for our NHX was painful tho.

I saw a CAT60 holder once. The pullstud on it was bigger than a BT30 holder. Made a 50 taper look like a toy. The machine had a jib crane that was used to load the holders into the toolchanger. Was pretty old school, but way impressive. I have heard of an HSK160, which would be that much more impressive

I did figure out what causes this with the help of my reseller. If you do color looping by tool number you will see this. Turn off color looping it goes away. Color looping by operation it goes away.

I see this one all the time. Seems to happen when I use a transform path with a custom tool drawn on a level. More than one custom tool? it pops up for every custom tool you have. So if you have 5, you are going to have to click "OK" 5 times

This.

Sounds like this to me. Have you run EZ-5 and checked to see if there is any difference in your 19700 parameters? Are you running WSEC? Are you probing the part to find location? Is the probe calibrated? Or are you running it old school & setting your work offset at the center of rotation?

Fan of Dapra here also. Recently I tried YG's offering & was pretty impressed. Inserts were much less, but they don't have the variety of bodies that dapra has http://www.yg1usa.com/feature/prodlist.asp?disp=0-10-20&cat_id=1&pre=HIGH PERFORMANCE&pre2=CARBIDE&sub_id=53&name=i-Xmill

You are in 2D construction mode.

Wow...how long did that take to post? I know on some of the larger programs Ive done, posting time was to the point where you thought mcam had stopped responding. (was in earlier versions of X...maybe X3 or X5??)

Yes Ive been down this road with almost every release. Was hoping for a quick & dirty secret. FYI, opening the control def in notepad++ and changing the path there blows things up, lol. With 50+ machines and 10+ seats of Mastercam spread across 4 buildings a network location is the only option.

Years ago when Version X came out we migrated all of our machine def's, control def's and posts to a network location. It is organized like so: Mastercam Machines/Mills or Mastercam Machines/Lathes or wire or mill-turn, ect When 2017 came out, to ease with the migration to the new interface, I decided to give people the option to use X9 for a bit longer or jump right into 2017...So I made a new network location: Mastercam Machines 2017/mills Mastercam Machines 2017/lathes ect..... Now that 2018 is out, I would like to continue this approach and am looking for a way to streamline. So I make a new folder, Mastercam Machines 2018. Problem I run into is when I run the migration wizard, everything runs just fine, EXCEPT the post processor location in the control definition does not get updated to the 2018 folder. It stays pointed at the 2017 folder. Short of going into each control definition (it gets WAY cumbersome when you have 50+ machines) is there a better/easier way to do this? When I made this change to 2017 to a new location, that is what I had to do & it does take a while & tons of patience. (some machines use more than one post & makes it more of a headache) Another issue that is similar is my tool libraries. Many of the tools & alot of the holders are defined in by a DXF file. The file path would be "Mastercam Machines 2017/Tool Libraries/DXF". When migrating to a new location all the DXF file paths do not update. Is there anyway to do this without redefining every tool?

I gave up using them a while back. I use a point toolpath instead....& even those can be picky sometimes.

Pretty sure that isn't an option anymore on the newer machines. I was a pretty cool concept, but the guys Ive talked to from DMG-Mori were less than impressed with the whole setup. Very few cam systems supported it.

Mill Entry is still around also. We have a seat for programming our Laser's. So four different levels I know of. I do know that mill entry limits you to TOP WCS only, no surfacing, I think it will do a pocket toolpath but not sure. But for a laser...2D contour is all you need.