Your on to something here man! Relevent replies spaced thru your posts......
I swear Iv'e tried job after job to make use of levels. I always end up finding a better way. I can usually use blank and colors to do the job.? In Smartcam I used them on every job, working with an autocad design group. But not a piece of software since have I found a purpose. Of course, I model and cut, not just one or the other so (jack of all trades master of nothing) kinda thing.
You talk about two minitors like its a bad thing? I used to have 2, I would open explorer, drag over to secondary monitor, shut down explorer. Then when I open it, it opens in the secondary monitor. Then drag explorer back to the main And literally turn off the secondary monitor. You have created a poormans popupblocker. Imagine posting and the code pops up in the mini monitor, or email allerts in the other window? Sounds geeky, but its actually prety cool. Close the main explorer window and ALL the popups diapear.
What Ive noticed lately after mr carroll opening my eyes is the software is limiting my speed on graphite. Mastercam outputs code thats rough on the machine. I ran some mastercam code thru a Camaix filter for hsm and I went from 30-40 ipm to 140 inches perminute. Super smoothe, super accurate. Im not sure what its doing but I assume each individual segment is connected to the next in a tangent manner. IM guessing.
MAstercam 0 and Mastercamx2 needs the Camaix/cimco high performance HSM pack addon to evencome close to a premium system. There is a difference, a big difference.
Im not impressed with any of them. Trying to put too much data in one place. And I'll admit, the x interface is not my favorite after using a bunch. Havnt used gibbs, and cant tell from just looking. But we need a radical new approach to listing and organizing individual operations. Maybe stop making them individual? Make is more graphic? I don't pretend to know how to change it, but they all suck. Especially if you started on smartcam version1 and ever since the dam things on the opposite side?
Sorry to play devils advocate, it seems the best way to get meaninful dialog flowing.