Alt A ???

[Threept82]

Hi Guys

Does anyone out there in MC land have trouble with the Alt-A save option in "X". In Ver9 I have my settings as save using active mastercam file name and promt befroe saving both checked off. So Alt-A and press save MC askes me if its ok to save.

The same settings in "X" and MC doesn't save or ask to save It does nothing.

[dwsz71]

See this topic

 

Problem with Alt+A

[Guest]

If you do a search on this there is plenty of info about it.

 

The short of it is if you use ALT +A as save then you'll have to remap your ALT + A to file save.

 

ALT + A simply activates the autosave feature, it does not do a save as in V9.

 

HTH

[Richard Thomas - Mastercam UK]

If I have a file on the screen, pressing ALT-A will save the file silently in Macm X (although a tooltip message appears briefly... too briefly to read if the file is a simple one!) This is because I haven't got "prompt before saving file" checked in my Autosave settings.

 

Take a look at Screen/Configuration/Files. If you set it to prompt you before saving, then everytime you press ALT-A, the autosave dialog will come up.

 

[EDIT] I did not have to remap ALT-A to Autosave on my system. I will say that I am beta testing the SP1 update, although I doubt if this would change my key assignments.

[Threept82]

OK

Looks like I need to learn not to use Alt-A anymore. It was handy. Thanks.

[Richard Thomas - Mastercam UK]

Threept82,

 

I guess we approach Autosave a little differently - sorry that the change isn't going to work out for you.

 

I actually found it annoying in V9 that even though I did not want Autosave to prompt me before saving the file, pressing ALT-A still brought up the Autosave window... hey I said don't prompt me!!

 

After all I'm the one who pressed ALT-A, so I have already decided that it is OK to save the file.

 

I have to say X is working better for me this way.

[Guest]

Threept,

 

Just remap ALT + A and then whenever you hit ALT + A you'll save your file.

[Threept82]

Thanks jmparis

That's what I did. I also made my F12 key translucent as I did with Ver.9