Trouble running multiple sessions.

[MetalFlake]

Something has changed within my configuration or somewhere else I suspect. I can no longer have multiple sessions running without it affecting my Operations Manager. Must be some kind of conflict...but it wasn't always like this. It seemed to be like it is now about the time I pasted in a new MC9RS.DLL file in my MCAM9 folder. As I understand, the new MC9RS.DLL has been tweaked to 'enhance' mcam....things like new gui style buttons in the operations manager and the solids manager etc.

 

I thought I read that I can have different configurations for each session to help get around conflicts. Can someone please shed some light on this topic for me?

 

Many thanks!!

 

MF

[MetalFlake]

....This is the error I get:

 

[Tim Johnson]

I think it's a RAM issue. When I get that I save the .mc9 file then reopen it. No need to reboot. Sometimes I have to regen the toolpaths, sometimes not.

[MetalFlake]

Any body else -BUMP.

[Fig sign]

I also think it is Ram connected or harddisk problems (may be swapping )

BTW ,can you see and copy teh mentioned file

May be you opened your MC file more than once (very bad idea |.

I am happy with multisessions all the way from ver7

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

You may want to change the temp directory on the other session. When I was running a Dual CPU rig, I had two icons on my desktop for launcing MC. One had the temp file located in one folder, and the other was in another location. This cut file corruption down to nothing.

 

HTH

[Sandybar]

+ 1000 James

 

I also have to icons assigned to different temp dirctories. I have seen the above error many times befor I finally put in individual temps.

[Tim Johnson]

James ~ Sandybar,

Thanks for the tip. I always thought it was RAM (only 512k) and having 20 windows open.

[MetalFlake]

James, Is this the correct way to do what you're describing? If it is, I can't get it to work. Windows 2000 seems to not like the format or something and it's not executing the app.

 

Here's the help I'm referencing:

 

 

 

 

Thanks for any help!!!

 

MF

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Metal, You'll need to do a couple fo things. Fisrt edit your config file (ex. Mill.cfg or somename.cfg) to your liking. Save it. Go to My COmputer/Explorer and find that *.cfg file and make a copy of it. Open up the copied *.cfg file in a text editor, search for the lines that are like this

quote:

---

416. Temporary data path? c:mcam9temp

---

and create a different path (ex. c:mcam9tempvf2)

Then go to the shortcut on your desktop and copy it. Now select one of the icons, right click, properties. Edit the target to include the cfg file you want (ex. C:Mcam9MILL9.EXE copyofvf2.cfg). Save everything, and you should be set. Windows 2k could care less about this stuff. You'll need to create a seperate folder for every session you want to run simultaneously. What happens is each session of MC creates temporary files that it uses for performing various tasks and they delete once the session closes. If you open multiple sessions, and you close a session it could delete the files from the other session. So by creating multiple temp files and multiple cfg files pointing to different temp files you eliminate the possibility of files getting mixed up at the temp file level.

 

HTH

 

 

HTH