Mastercam X5 question

sisabdulax · May 12, 2016

Hello all,

Gotta probably a simple question. I never had any formal training on Mastercam but stumble thru pretty decent. I was wondering When writing toolpaths how do I delete a single tool path? I have tried in the past and wiped all of them. Nervous to go through that with amount of tool paths I currently have written.

Thanks in advance.
Mike

zero_divide · May 12, 2016

sisabdulax said:
Hello all,

Gotta probably a simple question. I never had any formal training on Mastercam but stumble thru pretty decent. I was wondering When writing toolpaths how do I delete a single tool path? I have tried in the past and wiped all of them. Nervous to go through that with amount of tool paths I currently have written.

Thanks in advance.
Mike

Select a toolpath by clicking on it.
Make sure the one you want to delete has a green check mark on it.

You nuked them all probably because you selected the whole group.

sisabdulax · May 12, 2016

I am pretty sure I only had one, which is why I asked. First time I did it I did select them all! Learning curve! Thanks

FeatureBoy · May 12, 2016

Yep, every path that you have selected will have that green check mark, so just make sure that the one you're deleting is the only one you have selected and you'll be fine.

sisabdulax · May 12, 2016

Thanks guys that was it must have hit the nuke button in past!!! been nervous since. Thanks for the quick replies

Larry Dickman · May 12, 2016

there is also an icon for deleting all toolpaths. perhaps you hit that button.

Evenglischatiest · May 12, 2016

As stated above, the X means everything. When you hit delete, it won't do anything to any tool path without the X. But that X doesn't always end up where you think it should be. So stop and look, every time.

Selecting the tool paths can be a little random. Sometimes it catches, and sometimes it doesn't. It seems to depend somewhat on what's currently selected, and what you've done with that tool path. There's a pattern to it, but I haven't fully worked it out yet. What always works for me is to select a random tool path first. Not the one that's currently selected, and not the one you want to delete. Don't backplot it, or verify it, or change anything, just select it. Then select the one you want to delete. If I do it that way I always get the one I want.

mkd · May 12, 2016

delete button on keyboard?

tay2daizzo8 · May 12, 2016

Sounds like you hit the dynamite bar...or had all tool paths checked green

goooose · May 13, 2016

To make things less stressful...save your file before you delete anything. If you delete the wrong toolpath just reload the file.

cpifer3 · May 13, 2016

If you do select the wrong tool path and you catch it right away , you can select undelete to retrieve it. Of course I would practice this and anything else you are are not sure about on a sample file.

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