Mastercam 2022 and Mastercam 2022 for SOLIDWORKS Public Beta 1 available

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    I started using Mastercam on X2.

We purchased MC right at the beginning of X and had both V9 and X installed for a few years before we reluctantly moved to MC. When I say reluctantly, I mean the guys on the floor.  Not in the front office.  

I started pulling assemblies in to X2 that I had been working on in Cimatron.   It was a memory leaking crash fest.    

I didn't start having confidence in MC until about X6.  I think that if I had started on V9 I would have given it more of a chance.

lol at starting at x2,
so theres this new option on dynamic mill for chaining, automatic...
I clicked it, nothing happened!

[Tim Johnson]

    I started using Mastercam on X2.

We purchased MC right at the beginning of X and had both V9 and X installed for a few years before we reluctantly moved to MC. When I say reluctantly, I mean the guys on the floor.  Not in the front office.  

I started pulling assemblies in to X2 that I had been working on in Cimatron.   It was a memory leaking crash fest.    

I didn't start having confidence in MC until about X6.  I think that if I had started on V9 I would have given it more of a chance.

X5 was a good version other than the Dynamic milling.  It was ok but for milling tough material you had to expand the material line to do three empty loops before hitting the material corners. If you didn't the first corner would be a 40 to sixty percent cut.

[neurosis]

Looks like PB3 is available.

Is anyone using this regularly?  I'm curious how stable it is at this point.

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Yeah, we are jist full out using the beta on 10 pc(s) with no issues.

The enhanced mesh interaction is good, mesh primitives etc..

Model prep across multiple bodies..

I wouldn't go back to 2021..

[gcode]

I'm using it on some jobs
It's been rock solid.
I've had some minor graphics issues with very large solids, but have
not checked to see if PB3 has fixed them.
I've found the new suite of mesh tools extremely useful.

[gcode]

I'm using it on some jobs
It's been rock solid.
I've had some minor graphics issues with very large solids, but have
not checked to see if PB3 has fixed them.
I've found the new suite of mesh tools extremely useful.
I didn't think it was a big deal, but it turns out I love the new auto regen button.

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Many of us have been using auto regen by gunther for years,
It's a great improvement.

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One bug advantage for the end user is that there is now my mastercam/add ins folder which acts as a second chook folder,
So u dont need to be admin to hook in.
There is also a new scripting system nethook using charp builtt  by mastercam, for quick solutions and deployment.

[Jim at Gentex]

[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=7515 time=1614266407 user_id=50]
lol at starting at x2,
so theres this new option on dynamic mill for chaining, automatic...
I clicked it, nothing happened!
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Some of us started with VERSION 2.
Not X2, but the OG DOS version on floppy disks. (early 1990's)
(Raise your hand if you thought CadKey was the shit back in the day!   )

We've come a looooooooong way from that!  

Having said that, I still don't mess with betas.
I did that once probably around X4 or X5 and ended up digging myself into a hole I didn't need to be in.