X2 OPENING WITH A DIFFERENT MACHINE THEN THE DEFAULT

[DANC]

X2 OPENING WITH A DIFFERENT MACHINE THEN THE DEFAULT IS SET TO. MY DEFAULT MACHINE LIBRARY IS SAVED ON MY NET WORK NOT ON MY C DRIVE. I TRIED SAVING A COPY TO THE C DRIVE BUT STILL OPENS WITH A DIFFERENT MACHINE. RUNNING XP PRO. ANY IDEAS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ?

[Guest]

How is it opening?

 

Are you trying to go file new with an already open file or is it a problem on start up?

 

If you already have a file open, go into design first and then file new, then when you load a machine def the default will start

[DANC]

ON START UP, I ALSO HAVE MY START/EXIT SETING SET FOR THE MACHINE THAT I WANT. I WOULD LIKE TO START MASTERCAM AND HAVE MY MACHINE SET.

[pip]

Please turn off your caps this is classed as shouting in neticet.

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...=1;t=024212;p=1

try this?

[DANC]

sorry, thanks

[DANC]

must be doing some thing wrong. Ware am I adding in the command line argument? I tried at the end of the "target" box under the desktop icon properties, that didn't work

[pip]

In target line after mcamx.exe "C:mcamx2?????.cfg" must use the quote marks, I think..

[DANC]

not that either

[Mike Gates from Barefoot CNC]

In settings, configuration, Make sure that under default machine the one you want is selected for that type of product, but also make sure in start/exit, the default product is selected also, it is usually defaulted to design.

[DANC]

i have all that set but still a no/go comes up with (MILL 5 - AXIS TABLE - HEAD VERTICAL.MMD)

[Elmo Crow X]

I had this same problem. My I.T. guy had all my permissions turned off had him give me the permissions now everything sticks

[Guy Arseneault]

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ON START UP, I ALSO HAVE MY START/EXIT SETING SET FOR THE MACHINE THAT I WANT. I WOULD LIKE TO START MASTERCAM AND HAVE MY MACHINE SET.

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This should be set in default machines, there is no setting for machines in that tab you have stated, if I'm reading you right.

[crazy^millman]

If it starts with one you dont like and you want to get rid of it. Make the one you want below it. Then move the one you do not want after that one and then you can delete that machine group. Sucks that you can not erase a machine group if it starts with the wrong one, but this way does get rid of it without you having to restart a session in design to get what you want.

 

HTH

 

PS: if you want it to only start in design you have to do what was suggested point the shortcut ot start in design then you can pick what machine you want from there.

 

[ 01-03-2007, 02:58 PM: Message edited by: Crazy^Millman ]

[DANC]

This is what I have been doing to change the machine group with out adding then deleting a group.

In the operations manager open the machine properties.

Click on the "files" folder then the machine group properties box will open.

Click on the "replace" folder in the machine- toolpath copy field.

Next pick the .MMD file that you want.

Then click done.

You will see the machine def. is changed

[Guest]

Whenever I start a new file , my config is set so my start up product is design.

 

 

I go machine type >> design

 

File >> new

 

I get a new file with no machine def, now I do a file save as, I save the file under the name I will use.

 

I add my machine def, it pickes up my filename and toolpath group names based on my settings.

[stanektool]

We had this same problem, and there seems to be a bug in the way mastercam saves the config file. Take a look at you .config file on line 25000. (Mill Machine Definition) and see if the path and filename for your Mill Machine Definition are correct. For us all the options within MasterCAM seemed correct but when we looked at the .config file in notepad the path was correct but the filename was incorrect. It was odd, and I still don't know why the config within mastercam remains correct even with an incorrect .config.

 

-Craig

[stanektool]

Oh, I forgot... once we changed line 25000 to the correct path and filename within notepad everything worked fantabulously!

 

-Craig