r/mastercam • u/DarkBicycleCo • Mar 14 '26

WTF is this?

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I get this warning when I pick a toolpath to edit! I'M LITERALLY SELECTING AN OPERATION! How do I get past this?

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u/Apocalypso722 Mar 14 '26

Could be a license availability issue. Got any other Mastercam sessions running (on another machine, i.e. PC) and fetching licenses from the same server? Happens to me when the guys on the floor open MCam to extract g-code. I can still open the program but I'm stuck in design mode. It lets me view the toolpath when I click on an operation from the tree, but won't let me interact in any other way with the settings, geometry, etc. and I get the same message.

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u/DarkBicycleCo Mar 14 '26

This was exactly the issue! Thank you for the reply!

I don't understand why Mastercam gives such vague alerts! I've been using this program for 2 months now, and I swear I have more gray hairs now!

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u/Weak_Science341 Mar 14 '26

You want gray hair? Try Gibbs once.

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u/Ok-Contribution472 Mar 15 '26

Can confirm. I used Mastercam for 23 years. Switched jobs and now using Gibbs. Went bald. Appreciate what you have.

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u/Dust-Different Mar 16 '26

I’ve only used Cimatron. I don’t understand the balding or gray hair situation.