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The first HSMWorks 2018 R2 development release is now available. We expect to make the final release within a few weeks. Let us know if you encounter any issues.
We have finally added support for Wrap / aka Axis Substitution for 2D Contour and 2D Pocket among other things.
Note that you can access the development releases from here (click the Development Release tab):
https://cam.autodesk.com/download/hsmworks/
You can also see all of the fixes, changes, and new features.
René Fonseca
Software Architect
@jeff.pek wrote:
Scott, as far as the issues with the selection controls in Inventor, these actually are very tricky. There's some "fancy logic" going on there, trying to be smart about what happens. With the heights, in particular, we were playing a bit of "whack-a-mole" in this area, so have backed off. I looked at this myself recently. We made a couple of tweaks, but want to avoid breaking one thing to fix another. Apologies for not quite being able to get this right. This needs a bit of an overhaul, but doesn't rate above the other important things we're doing.
@jeff.pek Ok. The auto focussing of the selection buttons works in the other tabs, so I incorrectly assumed it would be on easyish to fix. I think you're underestimating it's impact though. It's fine for us because we know about it and are experienced enough to deal with it. But watching new users trying to deal with it isn't good. I feel for them. Especially older machinists who aren't as computer literate. It introduces inconsistency which confuses them... especially when the light blue background showing its active is really hard to see. And the visual cue in HSM that anything is even selected is minimal.
I'm glad to hear that the consensus is that needs an overhaul, because it's another weakness of Inventor HSM vs Fusion & HSMWorks. aaaand this is now totally off topic for this thread.
Scott Moyse
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@jeff.pek wrote:
Hi Scott -
I'm not underestimating its impact. That's why I went in there to see what could be done. It's the topic of a couple of different reports.
Jeff
You're was intended as a collective You. I know it's tough to prioritise all this... I wouldn't want that job.
Scott Moyse
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I used beta mode I believe. It worked great with an earlier build.
The latest build seems to misfit the machining boundary.
Sounds good!
Laurens Wijnschenk
3DTechDraw
AutoDesk CAM user & Post editor.
René for Legend.
Development release HSMWorks2018-R2.42099 / August 10, 2017 is available at https://cam.autodesk.com/download/hsmworks/.
We should have the release officially out some time next week for everybody.
René Fonseca
Software Architect
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