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I don't think so, but no worries I got it figured out. I do appreciate it though! Message 46 of Message 47 of Message 48 of Message 49 of Hi Mathew, I never saw a response. Message 50 of Neal Feay Tools. Message 51 of Bret11 sorry i missed this message. I will try the conversion now. Message 52 of Bret11 attached are the converted libraries.
Message 53 of Hi Mathew, I never saw a response but I'm still interested in conversion of the tool libraries I posted please see them posted earlier in the thread. Thanks, Mark. Message 54 of I thought i sent yours through email? I will get them over the weekend and convert. I apologize When you hold down the [Ctrl] key to select all holes with the same diameter, Mastercam calculates the top based on the direction of the hole. The result can be undesirable with multiple holes pointing in different directions.
In previous releases, you had to individually select the axis inside the hole or select and then re-select each arrow to change the direction of the vector. In , the vector arrow is larger and is selectable to make it easier to manage directions on a small set of holes.
Direction options The new Direction options allows you to change the direction of the holes. Use Opposite to flip the holes opposite of the direction determined by the Orientation option. Select Include blind holes to flip the direction of theoretical blind holes, but not true blind holes. A true blind hole has a physical bottom inside of the solid. A theoretical blind hole passes completely through a section of the solid.
Orientation options Use the new Orientation options to determine the direction of the top of the holes. Select Cplane to orient the top of the selected holes to match the positive direction of the Z axis of the current Cplane. Now, you can undo and redo up to twenty-five Model Prep functions using the new Undo and Redo, located on the Solids Manager.
They only affect changes made using the Model Prep functions. Applying a history-based Solid function to the model clears the Undo and Redo memory stream and makes any previous Model Prep changes permanent. Solid Enhancements Solid Sweep Solid Sweep now has more options and controls than in previous releases.
Solid Sweep operations from previous releases will still have limited features when edited in Mastercam Only newly created Solid Sweep operations will support the new options. Each profile must have an equal number of entities, but the profiles do not need to be chained in sync. The chains must contain the same number of entities, even if the shape is different. Guide Chain Use a Guide Chain to influence a Solid Sweep operation by introducing a chain that alters the shape of the results.
The images below depict the orange wireframe being swept across the blue wireframe. The green wireframe is the Guide Chain. Guide Chains are not limited to the same plane as the Along Chain. New alignment options Two new options have been added to control the alignment between your profile and the Along chains.
Previous releases always kept the same angle relationship between the Profile and Along curves. You can choose one of the following: Normal l l Parallel Normal maintains the original angle relationship between the profile and along chain. Parallel keeps the cross sections parallel to the original profile. The ability to control this relationship makes the exact placement of the profile in relation to the Along curve less critical.
In Mastercam , the profile geometry easily runs along sharp corners. If any sharp corners are encountered, Mastercam miters them. This enhancement gives you greater flexibility and precision when modeling. You can control the angle of the twist as well as its placement along the sweep. There is no limitation on the angle of the twist, and you can use the following options to apply the twist from a certain place: No twist Twist l The start of the Along Chain to the end l The start of the Profile Chain s to the end of the Along Chain l The start of the Along Chain to the Profile Chain s 69 What's New in Mastercam — Design Enhancements Solids Manager New icon A new icon has been added to the Solids Manager that represents solid bodies with operations that have been rolled back and are dirty.
This is especially helpful when there are many solid bodies and the bodies are collapsed so the history is not displayed.
Stop Operation placement There is now a simpler way to manipulate the Stop Operation inside the history of a solid. You can now place the Stop Operation by selecting the operation you want to be last and selecting Move Stop Op here from the rightclick menu. Keep solid feature color Mastercam now retains a solid's face and feature colors even after you have removed its history. Solid face masking You can now use the standard color masking tools found in the Quick Mask color selection to select solid faces when creating a surface from a solid.
Transform Enhancements Listed below are enhancements made to the Transform functions. Control start position Rotate and Mirror now include a new option, Translate, which maintains the same start position of a closed circle when rotated or mirrored.
If deselected, the start position of the circle moves as it did in previous Mastercam releases. Select Metric or English in the Uniform group to scale your geometry. Wireframe Enhancements Listed below are enhancements made to Wireframe functions. These new features will help in the creation of more accurate containment boundaries. Ignore shared edges off Ignored shared edges on Only outside loops Curve All Edges now allows you to create curves from only exterior edges of a solid and ignores the inner edges when you select Only outside loops.
It is only active when solid faces are selected. Previously, these functions only supported creating geometry in 3D mode. By supporting 2D geometry creation, geometry created from the selected edge can be projected to the current Cplane and Z depth, instead of requiring you to use another function, such as Project. Create Letters is now in a function panel, allowing you to work simultaneously within the graphics window.
This also means that the letters are now live entities, so when you choose a new font, reposition, or edit the text it now shows the results in the graphics window. Use Edit Spline to refine and prepare splines. You can move, rotate, or lengthen the tangent vector or move the control point.
For more control and a finer adjustment of the curve, you can add or remove node points, or increase the number of control points.
Helix and Spiral Helix and Spiral function panels now include locks for specific fields. The fields you can lock are Revolutions, Height, Pitch for helix creation, and Initial Vertical Pitch for spiral creation.
Locking a field does not prevent you from changing that value, it simply establishes which field is constant and which two are calculated.
Select this option to create a line by selecting two points. The first point selected will be the midpoint and the second point will define one end while the other end of the line is a mirror in the opposite distance and angle. Modify at Intersection allows you to trim, break, or create points with lines, arcs, and splines where they intersect with surfaces, solid bodies, solid faces, and solid sheet bodies. This is particularly useful when modeling or prepping for Multiaxis toolpaths.
Select Modify at Intersection, and then use any selection method to select the wireframe geometry that you want to edit. After selecting the wireframe, select an intersecting surface, face, or solid body to display the function panel. When trimming geometry, Mastercam keeps the wireframe on the Normal side of the surface or solid by default. To change this, click Reselect.
Improved Inch and Metric Support Mastercam now supports mixing inch and metric tools and holders when building tool assemblies in Mill. You can use metric tools in inch part files and inch tools in metric part files. This includes proper tool compensation and scaling in Backplot and Verify. Note: This does not support scaling operation parameters when changing system units. This launches another dialog box to allow you to select the tools you wish to import.
The cloud icon in the second column indicates that the associated tool assembly has not been validated. If the tool assembly passes Mastercam's validation tests, you will see a green checkmark indicating that it can now be saved. If Mastercam detects problems with the tool, an icon will display indicating the severity of the problem. A red X indicates that there is a critical issue that must be resolved first. A yellow exclamation mark indicates a non-critical warning.
Use the hyperlink in the description field to review or edit the tool in question. The importer does not connect to a server process; instead, you import ZIP files containing your tool assemblies using the Open button. Similar to importing with CoroPlus see "Importing with CoroPlus" on page 80 , all assemblies must be validated before they can be used in Mastercam. This includes improvements to the 2D, 3D, and Multiaxis suite of toolpaths.
General Enhancements Listed below are enhancements that apply to Mill toolpaths in general, not just 2D or 3D toolpaths. Drill point sorting Sort by name has been added to the Drill Point Manager right-click menu. This allows you to reset the sort order to the original selection order or in the order you have named the drill points. When the cutter moves through outside arcs, the perimeter of the cutter is moving through the material slower than the center of the tool, which results in a decreased chipload on the tool.
Contour The following enhancements apply to the standard 2D Contour toolpath. Click on on below button to start Mastercam Free Download. The program and all files are checked and …. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Select and then de-select an option from the bottom "Settings' of the Merge Dialog.
This slowdown can be avoided by changing Visibility from shaded to wireframe prior to merging. Because the origin of the file typically corresponds to the origin used on the machine, it is important that your geometry be located relative to the origin such that it is appropriately located on the machine. Working far from the World Top Plane Origin in Rhino or similar applications will often cause the geometry to be located far from the origin in MasterCAM, so it's best to catch this issue early, before getting too far along in MasterCAM.
Your geometry should be located within the positive X, Y, and Z quadrants, with the stock modeled such that it has a corner located at 0,0,0. The gnomon and axes visible on the screen should help to verify whether the geometry needs to move in order to satisfy this condition. Machine dimensions vary, as do the lengths of their respective axes of travel. Make sure your geometry fits within the dimensions of the machine you intend to use.
MasterCAM will use the input stock size when simulating, so it is vital to ensure that dimensions are true to the physical material that will be placed on the milling table. In the toolpath manager pane, expand the properties subgroup. Choose stock setup , and the machine group properties window opens. The stock box is represented by a dashed red rectangular prism. Enter the as-measured dimensions of your stock into the X, Y, Z fields. Default units are inches. Tick the display checkbox to show stock box in MasterCAM model space.
After defining stock dimensions, u sers MUST manually update machining heights to reflect the stock thickness for each operation individually. MasterCAM will not auto-update these values. Inaccurate values cause collisions during verification. A roughing operation is used to remove large amounts of material rapidly and to produce a part geometry close to the desired shape. A roughing operation uses large diameter tools and coarse settings, and should not cut all the way down to the drive surface s , instead leaving a small offset for the finishing operations to clean up afterwards.
When stock thickness exceeds the shoulder length of the tools, the surrounding uncut stock may interfere with toolpaths drawn on the perimeter of the part, causing collisions. In this circumstance, it is necessary to partially clear away the stock outside the part perimeter before proceeding to the finishing operations.
The Contour 2D operation may be used for roughing as follows:. Note that the Contour 2D operation is not context-aware. Nearby parts may be gouged if there are multiple parts being machined from a single stock. The Surface Rough Parallel operation moves the tool in equally spaced parallel passes in the XY plane across the surface, cutting down incrementally in multiple steps.
The toolpath can be drawn as One Way best for anisotropic materials with grain direction, slower or Zigzag best for isotropic materials, faster. Note that all surfaces except stock extents are assigned as Drive surfaces in a typical MasterCAM file. A finishing operation follows roughing and is used to achieve the final geometry and surface finish.
Most MasterCAM files need at least one and frequently several separate finishing operations to produce an acceptable part. Finishing operations clean up the extra material purposefully left behind by the roughing operation. Finishing operations must be employed on a case-by-case basis, as the utility of each operation type varies from one file and geometry to the next.
See reference pages linked above for a detailed explanation of concepts and usage that are common across all operation types. Commonly used finishing operations are listed below. Users must review them and determine which operations are appropriate for their geometry.
The Surface Finish Parallel operation moves the tool in equally spaced parallel passes in the XY plane across the surface. The toolpath can be drawn in any angle relative to the XY origin. This operation is often used with varying stepovers and machining angles to create surface patterns on site models. Used primarily to clear material from vertical or steep features. The Surface Finish Contour operation cuts geometry by offsetting toolpaths away from the drive surface at incremental heights.
As sloped geometry becomes steeper, the toolpaths get closer together; as that geometry becomes more shallow, the toolpaths are spaced farther apart.
This operation is often paired with a flat endmill for use on vertical building faces. Note that the horizontal surface building top is the Drive surface. Used primarily to clear flat areas, such as stepped terrain or building tops. The Surface Finish Shallow operation cuts geometry whose slope angle does not exceed a threshold users can set maximum.
This operation is often paired with a flat endmill for use on stepped topography and building tops. Users can dramatically reduce machining time by strategically using larger diameter tools to cut open areas, while targeting small diameter tools to narrower channels. Used primarily to clear sloped areas, such as rolling topography.
