Showing drive surfaces.

[Threept82]

Hi Guys.

In surfacing with mill9.1, it used to be that

when I went to check drive surfaces with the show

option, everything would go blank except the drive surfaces now for some reason nothing goes

blank and its hard to find drive surfaces unless

there in plain sight. Can anyone tell me what I

screwed up and how I can get back to blanking

all except drives. Thanks

[jeff]

Could it be that they are showing you the drive surfs in a color that is similar to the geometry color?

Try changing the color of your surfs.

[P_Scott]

THREEPT82,

 

What's the video card on your system? When was the last time you updated the video driver for that card? That's where I would start looking for some answers. HTH

[Threept82]

It worked before.

[g huns]

I now have that problem as well. Started after I got the latest driver for my pos intel graphics card. I just live with it, but it does suck.

[P_Scott]

ghuns,

 

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Started after I got the latest driver for my pos intel graphics card.

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That's because your "pos Intel graphics card" isn't a dedicated video card at all. The Intel graphics is merely borrowing RAM from the motherboard to display graphics on the monitor. If you're only doing office work (word proc., spreadsheets, etc...) that's OK. For graphically intense engineering software, such as Mcam, this won't work. You need a dedicated, mature Open GL driven, mid-range to high-end video card (non-ATI). Link to the Information page at the top of this forum and check out the "discussion on hardware configurations" towards the bottom of the page. Or perform a Search of topics on this forum for "video cards" and I'm sure you'll find numerous threads on this issue. HTH

[g huns]

I know this, you know this, why can't my "I.T." guy seem to understand this? Been trying to get a new card since I got this pc and just get "don't have time", "can't change it", "it won't work", which is all code for "I don't know how."

[kkominiarek]

my default color for show surfaces is "white #15"

unless you changed default settings...you should see "white" surfaces after selecting show surfaces

 

hth

[g huns]

Where do you set that?

[Mark H]

I have the same problem, and I have an Nvidia GeForce2 GTS... It happend after I installed one of the patches.

[Müřlıń®]

Turn back on open GL....unless you are using screen capture scripts that interfere with it...

[Threept82]

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Turn back on open GL....

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Where can I do this.

 

Pete.

This worked fine before, I added nothing new or changed nothing at all. So Mark H must be correct,

only thing done here was added patchs and Pooff

say bye-bye. I think the patch requires a patch.

[Threept82]

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Turn back on open GL....

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I went to screen,config,screen

 

The enable opengl® drawing is grayed out

the box is checked but it will not allow me to do anything with it. Any ideas?

[robk]

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The enable opengl® drawing is grayed out

the box is checked but it will not allow me to do anything with it. Any ideas?

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Make sure your shading is active before going into screen/configure.

[Threept82]

It is.

[Threept82]

Anyone out there in MC land have any ideas?

[Mark H]

We have another seat of MC with a different video card (3DLabs Oxygen VX1) and it has the same problem. So I doubt its video card related. Has to be one of the patches...

 

I wonder if there is a way to uninstall the patch...

[Threept82]

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I wonder if there is a way to uninstall the patch...

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Me to.

[Camdude®]

make sure that shading i turned off before trying to disable or enable the OpenGL function on the config page. i beleive that is what ROBK meant to say.

[Robert Mansour]

I ran into this problem as well, it has been brought to CNC's attention, they are looking into this.

[Threept82]

camdude.

I was able to change the setting but it still

did'nt help. It has to be a MC boo-boo.

[Mark H]

Thanks for the reply Robert. Now we know people at CNC are looking into it. Hopefully it wont divert too much manpower from X.

[P_Scott]

THREEPT82,

 

Installing any new software patch can have an affect like this in older drivers and other software. That is why whenever we perform a Windows update here in the office with our computers, we'll always make sure video drivers and things are updated as well. It doesn't have to be MC related to have an affect on MC.

 

If you would like to send me the file, I will be happy to look it over on any of our systems here. That's the best way to determine if it truly is a software issue or hardware or driver issue. Process of elimination. In fact, I've tried this out on several surface files and haven't seen the "blank" effect you've described. The drive surfaces are a different color than the other surfaces. Perhaps jeff is correct in that the color reserved for your drive surfaces is very similar to that of your other surfaces. I tried this with shading active and not active. HTH

[Mark H]

Peter, the reason you dont see the "blank" effect is cause it doesnt work anymore. Previously when you selected to "Show" the drive surfaces MC would only show the selected surfaces (hightlighted). The unselected surfaces would be then temporarily hidden. At least this is how it used to work. It was a great feature allowing to see if you missed a surface.

 

Currently when you click on "Show" the surfaces are hightlighted but the non-selected surface are still visible.

[P_Scott]

THREEPT82,

 

I received your file and checked it out here on my computer. Mark H is correct. The unselected surfaces won't "blank" anymore. I don't agree that this is "broken", rather a "feature" of Mastercam. The drive surfaces and check surfaces are highlighted as a different color from the unselected surfaces. I don't remember it ever "blanking" the unselected surfaces. I do remember when it wouldn't "show" anything. That I considered broken and they apparently fixed that issue. Perhaps CNC Software will get it back to the way you're used to. I will check it out in Beta X and see if it still does what it's doing now.

 

I've just checked out the file in Beta X. Guess what. It's back to blanking the unselected surfaces. Good news. Just have to wait a little longer for the release of Mcam X.