Zoomies/Clipping on Curve 5 Axis, Flow, Multi Surf, Port, Rotary and Swarf Operations

[Mr. Saturday]

Can't see most of the graphics on the subject toolpath types. And the fonts look like they're from V9.  

Is this a known issue? I had it on the old laptop and on this new one with a completely fresh install. Win10 on the old one and Win11 on the new one.

[crazy^millman]

Change screen resolution on laptop to a more common monitor size.

[Mr. Saturday]

I've tried everything from 1920x1440 to 3840x2160. All it did was move my operations window to the first monitor. I tried it with the laptop screen on and with it disconnected.

[crazy^millman]

Not sure what to tell you then.

[Aaron Eberhard]

Oh man, that's an old problem...  I'm trying to remember the specifics, as I spent a lot of time on that about 6 or 8 years ago.    As I recall, Matt and I were completely unable to replicate it at CNC, and I was trying to do things like Mastercam on a Microsoft Surface and other low end hardware.  I'm pretty sure that I remember it coming in from one of the European resellers, but I thought we figured it out before Mick retired?  

What version of Mastercam, and what's your computer specs?  What video card are you driving off of?

I'm trying to remember if that was specific to a certain intel driver being installed in the system or if that was a different problem....

[Mr. Saturday]

I'm running a Thinkpad

Mastercam:

 

 Computer

Windows

Graphics

 

[JParis]

I'd lose the license # cap...

Video card...that looks like the culprit..

[SuperHoneyBadger]

You're going to get nothing but bad news with a setup like that, I think. 1.4 GHz clock speed and no supported gpu, unfortunately.

[Aaron Eberhard]

30 minutes ago, Mr. Saturday said:

I'm running a Thinkpad

Mastercam:

 

 Computer

 

Graphics

The Mastercam line didn't post, is this happening in 2025?

TIL that Intel has a new integrated graphics line this year.  Neat.  Here's a review for anyone else learning of it for the first time too:  https://www.pcmag.com/news/first-tests-is-intels-arc-good-enough-for-gaming-on-integrated-graphics

Looks better than HD/Iris, which is, well, not exactly a high bar to clear, but it's still something!

Either way, I probably can't help you here.. Perhaps someone in QC has tested on a machine like this at CNC but you are on unsupported hardware so they probably haven't.   We really didn't have much laying around CNC with integrated graphics chips when I was there.   I remember searching all over the building to test that old Intel Graphics not working with OpenGL applications thing from version V22-V26.  I think I found that Surface in the sales or marketing office.

[Mr. Saturday]

7 minutes ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

The Mastercam line didn't post, is this happening in 2025?

 

Thanks Aaron. I took the licensing image out. I'm on 2022 (24.0.17996.0).

I don't know how I missed this on the quote we got for this. We're not even close.

[Aaron Eberhard]

1 minute ago, Mr. Saturday said:

Thanks Aaron. I took the licensing image out. I'm on 2022 (24.0.17996.0).

I don't know how I missed this on the quote we got for this. We're not even close.

If your maintenance is current, you can try it in 2025, but if my (very fuzzy about this issue) memory is right, it never got fixed because it could never be replicated in house. 

[Mr. Saturday]

Only 2 of 3 seats here are maintained. We all need to update or none of us can.

[Greg Williams]

I thought that was a font issue? something with NotoSans

[Chally72]

Ooh I vaguely remember that. A missing font, was it? I searched and couldn't find a specific defect tied to this.

[Mr. Saturday]

That might explain why my fonts look like they're from v9.1.

I looked for a noto font and coulnd't find one.

[Aaron Eberhard]

1 hour ago, Mr. Saturday said:

That might explain why my fonts look like they're from v9.1.

I looked for a noto font and coulnd't find one.

Take a look in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder.  It will not show up if you try to search from C:\, because, well, Windows I guess..

[Mr. Saturday]

That's a google font. Downloaded and installed, rebooted PC, still have the problem.  

[Chally72]

A dev clued me in to another one to look at- check for MS Sans Serif font on your computer. We were finding that this font was missing from some Windows 10 installs a few years ago and made a change to accommodate for this.. Also, what is your Windows scaling set at?

[Mr. Saturday]

I have that font. My windows scaling is at 100%. I've tried several resolution/scale variants with no change. 

[Aaron Eberhard]

I had another thought (and remember I'm grasping at straws here for ya!).  In windows, you can set the font scale itself separate from the "windows scaling" factor.   May be worth a check to see if Lenovo set yours high?

Right click on the "windows logo"/start menu > Settings > Accessibility > Text Size.

Make sure that the slider is all the way to left?

[Greg Williams]

This was the font that fixed the issue in 2019/2020. Not sure if this is your problem now but certinally worth a try.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xv1ofpmhx782eib7nwd5b/NotoSans-hinted.zip?rlkey=5qnhb209wlmlivn2cpcuc8sth&st=skh1wh6y&dl=0

[Mr. Saturday]

Thanks Aaron and Greg. I might have IT take a look at those fonts, Greg. Don't want to bork my new lappy.  

I tested all kinds of variants of font sizes in both places and display resolution. 

[AHarrison1]

1 minute ago, Mr. Saturday said:

Thanks Aaron and Greg. I might have IT take a look at those fonts, Greg. Don't want to bork my new lappy.  

Sounds pretty borked already 

[Mr. Saturday]

Speaking of borked... did you know you can detach the Attributes Panel on your Right Click menu? I've been doing it for years. 

It doesn't move with the main window. So while I was changing resolution and font scale it went off screen and didn't come back. 

[lathe guy]

vaguely remember something like this from several years ago. these guys had a tech tip about it, but i cannot find it currently. 

 

https://qtemfg.com/