Mastercam 2027 Everpath Alpha

[SuperHoneyBadger]

And of course, this year there's a little more than the regular Tech Preview releases to test... 

Is the GPU fuelled verify in there?

[neurosis]

Shameless plug to please please please join the technical preview program if you are comfortable with spending some time to look at early software and give us your thoughts.

I had access to the early releases years ago but at some point, lost it. I think they had a thread about people losing access on the official forum when it happened. Maybe it was emc?  I never reached out to get it resolved. I can't remember how long ago that was but I'm pretty sure it was pre-2019 era?

[Dylan Gondyke]

Is the GPU fuelled verify in there?

The GPU Verify will be going out in a mid cycle release for 2026 a little later this year.

[Dylan Gondyke]

I had access to the early releases years ago but at some point, lost it. I think they had a thread about people losing access on the official forum when it happened. Maybe it was emc?  I never reached out to get it resolved. I can't remember how long ago that was but I'm pretty sure it was pre-2019 era?

Back then they had purged the list of people who didn't respond to surveys/etc for 1-2 product cycles. We've since worked to make this program a bit smoother to get into and I'd like to court especially the active forum users with active opinions to jump back into this if they have the time.

[neurosis]

Back then they had purged the list of people who didn't respond to surveys/etc for 1-2 product cycles.

That makes sense. I never responded to a single one of the surveys.

[JParis]

Back then they had purged the list of people who didn't respond to surveys/etc for 1-2 product cycles. We've since worked to make this program a bit smoother to get into and I'd like to court especially the active forum users with active opinions to jump back into this if they have the time.

While my recent time has been difficult,  this one is intend to jump into tomorrow

[CNCAppsJames]

It's a new subforum that those who are in the technical preview program can access.

As someone who had to deal with the one who shall not be named on the Solid Edge forums early on in my CAD career, I am hoping to avoid references to said individual.

Free fiss.

 

[CNCAppsJames]

To be fair....unspoken name didn't always have terrible ideas. His way of presenting said ideas really needed some polishing.

Yeah but mythbusters pretty much proved you couldn't polish a turd.

 

[CNCAppsJames]

Back then they had purged the list of people who didn't respond to surveys/etc for 1-2 product cycles. We've since worked to make this program a bit smoother to get into and I'd like to court especially the active forum users with active opinions to jump back into this if they have the time.

I might be willing to jump back in... can those tech preview versions post out NCI? 

If I'm gonna do it, I've git to at least be able to do that. It'll cost me a little extra time in projects but... if I can do that,I may just be able to justify it. 

[gcode]

I might be willing to jump back in... can those tech preview versions post out NCI?

I opened a 2026 file in 2027, posted some NCI, then imported it back into MC2026 and tried posting it.
It threw an axis combination error but the posted code looked OK

In this alpha release, it looks like only the finishing tab has been ported to Everpath.
Once I imported my workspace and config files, the rest of 2027 looks just like current production releases

[JParis]

As they desrcibe in the video, those toolpaths are all new.....

It does cause a bit of skittishness as breaking in new paths requires watching everything closely for sudden and unexpected bahaviors in toolpath operation.

[gcode]

I've watched several of the videos now.
I'm liking the new linking and am looking forward to testing the <cough> graphical tool path editing <cough>
once it gets hooked up.
There is a lot of potential there.
It's early days, but it seems like an awful lot of clicking, opening windows, and expanding drop downs going on to get a toolpath done.
My biggest concern is, will we have to open all those fields up one at a time to review a completed toolpath?

[JParis]

My biggest concern is, will we have to open all those fields up one at a time to review a completed toolpath?

I suspect in time, that will become like the tree dialogs, we know which ones we need to hit...once there is some familiarity and OP defaults are set, my thought is it'll get minimized in how much needs review

[Dylan Gondyke]

My biggest concern is, will we have to open all those fields up one at a time to review a completed toolpath?

The expander fields will stay open if the user has messed with settings in them. If you look in any of them, you'll note that every field that's tucked away in those areas has an "Override" or on off switch. So if any field in the expander has been turned on, then the user needs to see that and it'll be open if the user ever visits that tab. If nothing in the expander is turned on, the tab opens up with it collapsed.

[Dylan Gondyke]

These tech preview builds can post, and the Alpha items are postable through any existing mastercam post that can handle chook operations. Yes, these are brand new toolpaths with from-scratch technology to take full advantage of multithreading and GPU calculation, so with all that newness comes the potential for some interesting motion. But all the motion ends up in the BNCI in the same manner, so it can be verified/simulated like normal if the intent is to run a machine with it.