Dissapearing Crosshair

[John Angeli]

We are having problems with our crosshair/cursor not showing up. After you stop moving the mouse if you hit the ALT key it will show up, but as soon as you move the mouse again it dissapears. We have a class of 30 students and they are becoming very discouraged, not a good intro to Mastercam. Please help. Does anyone know how to fix this???

[gcode]

John

 

Are you running V9 or X

Are you running ATI video cards?

[John Angeli]

We are currently running v9.1 and soon upgrading to X, and I'm unsure of what video cards we are running, I'll try and find out.

[ArtemanSteve]

John,

Go to screen, config, screen turn off enable open

GL. If that doesn't work turn your Hardware acceleration down.

Steve

[John Angeli]

I tried all of that and nothing has been fixed. Does anyone have any other ideas??

[PBpaul]

I had a problem where pre-selected geometry was turning white on a white a background, in effect making the geometry and crosshairs seem to "disappear" whenever the crosshairs passed over anything. I'd try changing your crosshair colors and/or background color and see if that helps.

[eatnbugs]

Jon

I have the same problem. I recently installed mastercam on a new computer running XP. It worked just fine on my old computer running 2000. The Cross hairs disappear when sitting idle and flicker when moving the mouse around the screen. I turned down the accelerator and it made it worse and disabling the open GL had no effect at all. I know another guy having the same problem so I am surprised that it isn't a more popular subject in the forum. Anyway if anyone knows the answer to this problem I would appreciate the help.

[Ken Erman from CNC Software Inc.]

We have had this show up in a number of computers, especially with V-9 and some ATI cards. In V-9 it is generally solved by experimenting with the Mouse and Graphics settings. Don't use Mouse trails, turn off shadows, fading menus etc until you find the trick that works for your card. These things work on many cards but not all. In V-9 you may have to resort to turning down the graphics hardware acceleration. We have improved the reliability and speed of OpenGL considerably in X, but there are still issues that crop up. At least in X we can turn off graphics acceleration for Mastercam only without affecting the whole system.

 

I don't want to sound like i am making excuses, but graphics are difficult to stay up on. So much depends on the graphics driver, the OS, and the hardware. The card to buy for the best price performance changes from week to week sometimes.