Mastercam status bar colour

[ChrisVermaak]

How do I change the status bar color (bottom of the screen) on 2022? I have this white there and can barely see the wireframe display icons in the right hand corner. My status bar is white. I can see the planes and levels text but not the wireframe display icons unless I hover above them.

[Aaron Eberhard]

Right click on the ribbon (anywhere) and choose "Customize the ribbon"  go to Options.  That bar is the "Accent Color" if you use the White theme:

 

I recommend using the Dark Grey theme, though

[ChrisVermaak]

Thank you very much

I have changed to the Dark Grey theme and that worked. Now I know to change that colour

Could you also help where when I import Solidworks model into the Grey Theme with shading left to right then in some views the grey of solidworks steel part and background are so close I cannot see the edges of imported model. Is there an easy way that works to change the import model colour so it accentuates nicely against the Grey Theme.

[gcode]

I don't think you can change the color of imported model by default

You can go to

System Config/Colors and change the default color of solid edges from the default color black to something more visible.

 You will also need to be sure View/Outline Shaded is set.

Caution... with large or complex models Outline Shaded =On can cause a pretty severe video performance hit

if you do not have a powerful video card. 

[ChrisVermaak]

I had X5 until December. 

Then upgraded to 2022.

Wonderful I can open also X5 files in 2022. 

However: 

All Mastercam files on my pc associate the X5 "Icon" (left of the file name) also on new files type *.MCAM  extension and of course still on *.MCX5 extensions. 

Thus all my mastercam files (of both versions) has this look:

"X5"*.mcam  and "X5"*.MCX5

This is quite annoying and my local Mastercam tech support also could not fix this problem. Is there some clever IT specialist on here that could resolve this for me

I attach picture of what my Open dialog looks like in MCAM 2022 (funny the Solidworks part I imported retains a pic of the model)

[crazy^millman]

On 1/10/2022 at 8:40 AM, ChrisVermaak said:

I had X5 until December. 

Then upgraded to 2022.

Wonderful I can open also X5 files in 2022. 

However: 

All Mastercam files on my pc associate the X5 "Icon" (left of the file name) also on new files type *.MCAM  extension and of course still on *.MCX5 extensions. 

Thus all my mastercam files (of both versions) has this look:

"X5"*.mcam  and "X5"*.MCX5

This is quite annoying and my local Mastercam tech support also could not fix this problem. Is there some clever IT specialist on here that could resolve this for me

I attach picture of what my Open dialog looks like in MCAM 2022 (funny the Solidworks part I imported retains a pic of the model)

Can get the icon changed, but not show the picture in recent. You can hover you mouse over the name and see a picture. The icon issue is a Windows issue. Look up the process to change File Association Types and you should run across something that will show you have to change the icon type.

 

[ChrisVermaak]

Thanks but not solution

Here I open files from location with both X5 and mcam2022 files,  via 2022 (see MCAM2022 icon left top of pic) 

I selected as option this time All Mastercam Files (*.mc*)

And the X5 files in large icons indicate the actual view of file but the 2022.mcam files show the large X5 icon

I will look up on File Associations to see if there I could get something done. But I am IT limited (actually IT retarded)

Thank you

[CEMENTHEAD]

Back in 2016 I used the "convert" to update all our Mastercam files to mcam2017. only like 25thousand files. all the way back to X8 2002. 

 It was for the better. had to do it in stages by year. and keeping a backup. went easier than you would think. didn't lose anything. 

Our IT guy freaked. LOL only like a few months later. apparently he used to "audit" the files ( watching who did what and when. ) fixed his xxxx as well.  

 

Did it because mcam was stopping all support for I think was X9 and older.

[Seedy steve]

On 1/8/2022 at 2:49 PM, ChrisVermaak said:

Thank you very much

I have changed to the Dark Grey theme and that worked. Now I know to change that colour

Could you also help where when I import Solidworks model into the Grey Theme with shading

here is what I do,  black is badass.

the arrow points to the control for the toolpath manager scheme.

Windows has a good dark theme too.

[gcode]

I run dark themes on everything I use, if it's available

its much easier on the eyes

[Guest]

23 minutes ago, Seedy steve said:

here is what I do,  black is badass.

the arrow points to the control for the toolpath manager scheme.

Windows has a good dark theme too.

Don't forget the chromium dark mode extension for the chrome browser, very good as well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-mode/dmghijelimhndkbmpgbldicpogfkceaj

 

Especially for websites with no darkmode support..

[BissTool]

How do you get the preview pic to show when hovering over icon?  We have 5 seats of MC2021 one is stubborn.

 

[crazy^millman]

23 minutes ago, BissTool said:

How do you get the preview pic to show when hovering over icon?  We have 5 seats of MC2021 one is stubborn.

 

Give the Mastercam folder full permissions for the user account in the C:\Program Files\Mastercam 2022 here is a screen shot form 2021, but I have done this since Windows 7 came out. Since Windows 7 we are users with limited admin rights. Need to go to your user account and give whatever programs you want to have full control over just that. Administrator in anything past Windows 98 is not that and had not been since then.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Since we're on the subject of Windows Permissions, you should take Ron's advice one step further and set the permissions for:

"Shared Mastercam" & "My Mastercam" folders as well. You want the user at the keyboard to have "Full Control" over these folders & subfolders.

[BissTool]

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Right clicked on a Mastercam file in explorer, click on properties, click on change and select McamVersionSelector.  thx for the help!!!!

[crazy^millman]

1 hour ago, BissTool said:

Like I said to those who read this at a later date it is a windows issue and how it is doing the association process. Where having the different extensions for each release prevented problems like this, but since Mastercam had to follow what every other CAD/CAM company does they went back to one extension for each release. I have 5 versions of Mastercam on my system right now and it is driving me crazy. I do my best to remember to save files that are being used across different version with the year behind the file name, but soon as I forget that file is lost to previous versions past a certain point. Being hip and cool going with the flow is nice and everything, but when you have to do real world work and support it decision like these with extensions across many different versions of Windows come into play. We know the year each version of Windows is released and if the extensions were still based off the release then some could quickly know what version of Windows that Mastercam file was originally done it. We have customers with 30 years of Mastercam files. When it was per version on the extension they have a good idea what OS made those file. Do the same for 10 versions sharing the same extension? We have had 4 different OS come out in the last 10 years with Mastercam files all sharing the same extension. Can someone tell me the difference between a X9 or 2022 file? Guess neither can windows, but we all need to know when working with older files. 

[ChrisVermaak]

On 2/10/2022 at 6:27 PM, crazy^millman said:

Like I said to those who read this at a later date it is a windows issue and how it is doing the association process. Where having the different extensions for each release prevented problems like this, but since Mastercam had to follow what every other CAD/CAM company does they went back to one extension for each release. I have 5 versions of Mastercam on my system right now and it is driving me crazy. I do my best to remember to save files that are being used across different version with the year behind the file name, but soon as I forget that file is lost to previous versions past a certain point. Being hip and cool going with the flow is nice and everything, but when you have to do real world work and support it decision like these with extensions across many different versions of Windows come into play. We know the year each version of Windows is released and if the extensions were still based off the release then some could quickly know what version of Windows that Mastercam file was originally done it. We have customers with 30 years of Mastercam files. When it was per version on the extension they have a good idea what OS made those file. Do the same for 10 versions sharing the same extension? We have had 4 different OS come out in the last 10 years with Mastercam files all sharing the same extension. Can someone tell me the difference between a X9 or 2022 file? Guess neither can windows, but we all need to know when working with older files. 

Ok Ron I did this and now my MCX5 files and MCAM2022 files all look the same in explorer. But the icon is just ugly black square.

Is there now a way to change this icon to something nice.

 

[crazy^millman]

4 minutes ago, ChrisVermaak said:

Ok Ron I did this and now my MCX5 files and MCAM2022 files all look the same in explorer. But the icon is just ugly black square.

Is there now a way to change this icon to something nice.

 

Here is a step by step on this web site.

How to Change the Icon for a Certain File Type in Windows