Chaining issues in 2017

[ThomasJefferson]

Seems that every so often 2017 no longer wants to chain.  Yes, I checked level, planes, duplicate entities and so forth.   If I exit MC and restart, voila, achaining I go.  Graphics issues, perhaps?

Thanks in advance

[Müřlıń®]

Seems that every so often 2017 no longer wants to chain.  Yes, I checked level, planes, duplicate entities and so forth.   If I exit MC and restart, voila, achaining I go.  Graphics issues, perhaps?

Thanks in advance

yes this is a bug carried over from X9.

 

You have to press auto then press chain again.

[ThomasJefferson]

yes this is a bug carried over from X9.

 

You have to press auto then press chain again.

Weird.  Didn't have this problem with X9.  I'll try it.  Thanks.

[Müřlıń®]

Weird.  Didn't have this problem with X9.  I'll try it.  Thanks.

What I meant was that in x9 when you picked chain it wouldn't stick very long...after using it a few times it would revert back to window..

 

In 2017 you get to pick a chain once, but after exiting the function, the selection bar will still show chain but no chain will select only single.

Selecting Auto will unstick it and then you get to pick another chain.

 

I assumed the 2 issues were related somehow.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

"But" delete chain is now working "Standing on the delete key now rapid fire deletes chains" didn't in X9.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Save/Close/Open... its the long time fix for many, many Mastercam cache memory bogs.

 

Someday they will figure out why MC cant manage the cache to clear properly, while mastercam

is open and in use.

[Thee Rickster ™]

For instance, in X7-6-5-4

after  an hour or so of importing tools, ops and making tools from scratch

 

I'll import a tool and hit properties and it wont be in the list on the tool page.

 

S/C/OPEN fixes it an now i can see the tool to edit it.