Origin line extends

[Guest]

Does anyone else see this

 

 

Notice the blue line, that is my Z WCS marker. When this happens I have to close and restart, info will all show correct, WCS, planes, depths but trying to work on any geometry and it can't be done, things won't trim, different planes appear to be in use from point to to point. I can not recreate reliably but it happens occasionally. I used to chalk this up to a video problem with the Ati card but it still happens.

 

Anyone else???

[Steve Zirtzman]

John,

I have never seen or heard of that problem. It does not sound like a graphics card problem to me. Have you asked QC about it?

[Guest]

Previously no, I don't "think" this has happened on the work system, only at home, so I thought video issue perhaps. Now with the new card installed it is still happening, so that has been ruled out.

 

 

I am curious if anyone else has seen this.

 

In the mean time I'll drop them an email about it.

[phil darcy]

John. I have had many times when something likes this happens and I have to close and restart.Also right clicking levels sometime causes a high pitch buzzer on my mother board to come on and stay till I restart.

[Guest]

:bump:

[P_Scott]

John,

 

Send me the file and I'll see if it happens on my machine. Or if it happens again while you're there and want to do a "remote support" session with me or anyone else here, it may help to narrow down the issue. That's what we're here for, to help you out.

[Ocean Lacky™]

John,

 

I've seen it both at work and at home....no clue what causes it, though. It's rare, but it does happen.

[Colin Gilchrist]

John,

 

We see system instablilty like this quite often here at work. Try running RAM Saver when you encounter the problem. If that doesn't fix it then you will have to restart Mastercam. That is our basic test to see if there is really a bug or not. If the problem still appears after a restart of Mastercam then you know its repeatable.

 

CNC Software is still fairly new to the Windows world. We have noticed some problems with the "Standard Selection" feature in Mastercam. Some of our programmers will be tooling right along in Mastercam and then all of a sudden none of the entities on the screen will auto-highlight. The solution is almost always to restart Mastercam. I have also seen RAM saver fix some of the problems. I tell all of our programmers to save and restart Mastercam about once an hour. Its a small price to pay for the system stability you gain.

 

HTH,

 

Colin Gilchrist

The Boeing Company

MR2 and Beta test site

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

When this problem happens, all tolerance values are going crazy.