Nhasp & command line switches

[WWFCAM]

We have 3 seats of mcam

one L1

one M1

one M3 with full 5ax

one Solids

 

the mill seats connect properly when using /m1 /noL

or /m3 /noL

 

but the lathe seat using /L1 /noM

doesn't restrict user to only the lathe it acutally fires up M3 & L1

 

one seat (better computer)is set with

C:mcamxmastercam.exe /m3 /s /x5 /v5 /c5

 

but if the lathe guy starts mcamX before I do then he gets my mill3 seat

 

is this a bug in mcam or the nethasp?

 

when we first installed X the only way to control who uses which seat was to use the command line switchs

 

any help is appreciated

 

thanks

 

win xp pro

mcamX MR1

mcam v9.1

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

works here, MR1

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

I'll run some tests here...

 

-------------Edited------------

 

I think I see what might be happening. When the lathe guy starts, he's in 'Design' - no Machine Type selected. But Mastercam needs to check something out from the NetHasp and it looks like it might grab the mill license. If the Lathe guy switches to a Lathe Machine type, that should free up whatever it had grabbed (so now the Mill guy(s) can have it) and grab a Lathe license.

Maybe the place where we're saying "we gotta check something out but we don't know what yet" isn't looking at the "/noM".

If this is the case, you should be able to grab that Mill license after the Lathe guy switches to a Lathe machine type.

[brilu397]

This also relates to the lathe config thread, but it would be nice if we could set our config file to load a lathe as our default machine. I think that would help with both issues.

[WWFCAM]

thanks Pete

I'll try today and see if it works

 

brilu397, I'll search for this lathe config thread

thanks

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

I duplicated this scenario and when checking out "any license" (since the Lathe user hasn't picked a Machine Type yet) we do indeed grab a Mill license (without looking at the /noM). Its logged as bug #17566 and will be fixed for MR2.

[WWFCAM]

thanks for investigating

 

we'll just have to work around this until MR2

[Tom Anderson]

Thought I'd add another question to this OLD thread.

 

Can you use command line switches to retrict a user from a level of a certain type of license?

For instance can we use /NoM3 to prevent a user from getting a level Mill3?

[Guest]

A switch with

 

/M1 will limit the startup to a Mill 1 seat

 

/M2 - Mill 2

 

/M3 = Mill 3

 

Beyond that there is no way I no to permanently restrict a user if he overrides the switch

[Colin Gilchrist]

Guys,

 

You can use the Mastercam Launcher program (you'll find it in your Start > Programs > MastercamX4 folder) to configure a desktop icon with the correct switches.

 

You can restrict the Mastercam session with the switches, and the user will NOT be able to check out a license manually if the icon has the restrictions in place. We tested this recently because we have both Mill and Router licenses on our NetHasp.

[Tom Anderson]

What is happening is, if we specify the /M1 by command line switch, but no Mill1 is available, it rolls over to an available Mill license? Like Mill3? That's why I was hoping to use "/M1 /NoM3"