Help or Advise-Running tool paths is Very Slow Mastercam x6-x9

[jt300zx]

Hi I'm JT and Systems Administrator for my company.  So please excuse the lack of terminology.

 

I built a pc specifically for a programmer to test before we make 12 pc investment.  Here are the basics:

i7 5960x

64gig Ram

Nvidea K5200 8gig

Mastercam X6-9

 

We thought this thing would be a burner but preforms no better than three year old pcs with 12 gig ram and Nvidea 4000 when creating tool paths.  Now, the user's profile and settings are to a network drive.  Even when I have the user to first save to local drive, nothing.  Is there anything that can be done?  I built this monster pc and it's not preforming.

[Guest]

I am curious, you didn't list the hard drives....

 

SSD drives are very quick these days......have also had great results running 2 10k drives set up in a RAID 0.........

 

Much can depend on the toolpaths that are being crunched as well......the old legacy toolpaths while providing great results are not multi-threaded, so regardless of how many cores, they will only process on 1 core.

 

The newer surfacing paths will mutli-thread......

 

The information is rather limited on what's being actually being done........I did find in testing that the legacy surface paths do have a limit, where no matter how much more horsepower you throw at them it doesn't matter.

Whereas the newer toolpaths will utilize much,  much more of a systems capabilites

[Machineguy]

Turn your virus software off and see what happens.

Test your network speed.

Latest drivers for the video card. Just for xxxxs and giggles, what would a 980 TI 6 meg card do? ( that may not be doable)

 

Machineguy

[jt300zx]

I forgot the drives SSD  Samsung 850 Pros, RAID 0.

 

That is the hurdle understanding what it is they are doing.  I'm the IT guy and all they can tell me is it is slow.  After I install I don't mess with settings and so on.   I understand the differences in X6 to X9 on how utilize the hardware.  But the programmers are being hard nosed about going to X9. 

 

The first time a toolpath is converted from X6 to X9 it's expected to be slow, correct?

[Guest]

 

 

The first time a toolpath is converted from X6 to X9 it's expected to be slow, correct?

 

I wouldn't give them a choice about going to X9 but that's me  

 

Depending on the type of toolpath, from X6 to X9 there may be little difference.......

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

In system configuration->files make sure that temp files folder and regen folder  points to the directories on your local ssd.

 

HTH

[jt300zx]

Thank you so much, that explains a lot.  But I changed both to local and it is still writing out to the network drive.  So it must have another setting?

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

It writes exactly what ?

Files mc* ?

or tmp and rgn files ?