Glad you liked it!

Most welcome

Ya, for soft material it's not so important. Heck, you may as well run 70+% stepover at which point climb vs conventional is moot.

"thanks for the video.." You're welcome!!

You'll have to switch the material type for the part/fixture. You may have it set to glass initially which when you then enable Material, everything is showing as glass.

If you are running a dedicated video card, which is the minimum recommended hardware, you should not have to make any changes to the graphics settings. This setting will make Mastercam perform poorly so the system can run it. It is not recommended or supported. You should look into a laptop with a dedicated video card, if you have one make sure Mastercam is using it and that the drivers for it are up to date.

whats "beefy" to you may not be "beefy" to me. CPU? RAM? GPU? SSD or HDD?

@@flawns It was a software issue. Mastercam 2021 wasn't that great. I installed 2022 and it works flawlessly

@@cheeriomartinez ohh okay that makes sense. Thank you for correcting me! I was too fixed on specs and not software

Haas UMCs have DWO/TCPC. Basically options that allow you to put the part anywhere on the table and the machine can compensate. Machines without this, you have to program with your part in the same position in CAM as on the machine, relative to Center of Rotation of the rotaries.

@@CamInstructor is this the G254/G255?

Ya, DWO G254, TCPC G234.

I don't think they are in the acquisition business. At least I don't remember them doing any prior, but I'm not in a position to know of these types of events.

@@CamInstructor It’s just my dreams about ideal CAM software that could become Mastercam. I use Camplete at my work, but I’m afraid that Autodesk will kill it one day as they did before for most of software they purchased.

@@ov3753 I've had the same thought in the back of my mind, let's cross our fingers they've learned from their mistakes by now.

The 3D toolpaths will always look at the part normal to the Z plane. This doesn't mean this is how stepovers are calculated though, that varies from toolpath to toolpath. 5X toolpaths, sure they can see a part normal to the surface it is cutting. Stepovers again are vary. Maybe the best answer here is a question, what is it you're trying to do?

@@CamInstructor Well because having it look normal to Z rather than normal to the drive surface causes wonky things to happen sometimes, which would be solved by looking normal to drive. They aren't insurmountably wonky, of course, but still.

Example?

Not everyone wants to look at it or give it screen space. Having the choice to show or hide makes everyone happy!

@@CamInstructor but maybe it could be added as an checkbox option? just a one liner at the bottom would be enough.

I would suggest hitting your reseller first for a post/machine for the laser you are running. Once you're good there, you may want to walk before you run...as in don't dive straight into 5x if you have no Mastercam experience. We have training you can look into, nothing laser specific though but it does go from 2D to 5X.

Might be seeing a step up being done.

Thanks

Have not heard an official day for release but I'm guessing within the next month?

@@CamInstructor thanks!

If you make any changes to the toolpath it will recalculate the stock each time based on those selected stock defining toolpaths. By referencing a stock model, that stock calculation is done and immediately feed to the toolpath.

We have courses available on our website... caminstructor.com/mastercam-courses

If they think they can make it as streamers. more power to em. Give it a shot, maybe they'll make it. Many kids dream of being pro athletes as too , nothing wrong with that. But to think there are no headaches in any specific job type is naive. Machine shops dangerous? They can be but they are way safer today than even 10 years ago. Pay? If you averaged the income of all streamers vs income of all machinists, I guarantee machinists will be higher. (there are millions of streamers who make nothing)

This video is from an event, the files were available during that event but not any longer, sorry.

I'm not sure why having Module Works driven simulation is a bad thing? The stuff they make is top shelf and I'm glad Mastercam has it included.

@@CamInstructor Don’t get me wrong. I like modules from other places as long as they work. Especially from ModuleWorks, i found them many times better than their analogs from original Mastercam modules. I just hope that inside Mastercam Machine Sumulation one day I could choose mine Matsuura MX520 and will get right simylation without Camplete or Postability

@@ov3753 i think Sprutcam has a built in machine simulation which uses the generated gcode.

@@ipadize I'm not in position to change CAM system right now. Also there is no Sprutcam in North America.

@@ov3753 yes, there is.