Ops dirty on file open

[g huns]

Programmed a couple of trodes yesterday. Posted paths for both of them and cut one set last night. This morning I remembered that I needed to change something on the second set. So I opened up the file and all my ops were dirty. The geometery was missing from every one. Some 2d paths, some 3d surfs, some 3d solids. Not a real big deal, but they're pretty big and take a while to regen so it's a real PITA. Any thoughts?

[Chipmakr]

We have had the same thing here. Thought we would wait for MR1 and see if a fix was in there. It is random and not to frequent. Seems to rear its head on larger files though.

[g huns]

It was a 45MB file, which is bigger than normal. Guess I should have broke it up into 2 files.

[Chipmakr]

Our latest file to lock up is only 5.84 MB

It has several solids with lots of faces and fillets. So it was not really that big.

[Müřlıń®]

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Any thoughts?

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Bummer....

Attrib +r only way....

[Bruce Gibson]

Are you using the wcs?

[Namliek_J@TheeCircle™]

all the geometry is still there, nothing is deleted. the drawing looks the same as it always did, just seems that the toolpaths are messed up.

[Ray Culver]

Please send the file into QC. This should not be happening, but if I can get my hands on the file I can step thru and maybe recreate the crime. I may also be able to save the file.

 

We need a praying emoticon.

[Kannon]

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We need a praying emoticon.

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[beej]

I get the same thing alot. I've never sent the file to QC because once I regen the ops they are fine. I can usually tell when it's going to happen though because it gives me a bogus error while trying to regen an op after editing some parameters. for instance I may edit a drill depth in a drill op or a "stock to leave" in a hsm op and then hit OK and try to regen. It will then tell me "error regenerating operation". Then I save close mastercam. Reopen, call up the file again and all ops are dirty. But they will all regenerate just fine. I'm not sure how to send a problem like that to QC.

[Tim Johnson]

I'm also getting the dirty files, but only since my computer was rebuilt so I'm thinking there's a setting somewhere that needs to be turned on/off. Is there a setting that will regen toolpaths on an open file command?

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

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Is there a setting that will regen toolpaths on an open file command?

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No.

 

Check this settings in the Config.

On the Files page make sure that "Restore entire toolpath data in File,Open" is checked.

[Tim Johnson]

Thanks Roger

[JohnA]

Are you selecting your tools individually from the library for each job so that there is only 1 tool one and 1 tool two?

Do you have 2 or 3 different tools defined as tool 1 (in your actual job, not the tool library) and you just assign whichever tool you need to the toolpath. This was the case when I saw this last. The guy was copying the entire tool library that he had created into every job he programmed so there were multiple tool 1's. 2's, 3's, and so on, instead of selecting each tools as he needed it from the library.

Good luck!

 

JohnA

[beej]

I always select the tools one at a time. there could possibly be 2 tool #1's one in machine group1 and one in machine group2 but that doesn't happen very often here.