translating surfaces in Router 8.1.1

[Mike Annetts]

Hello

 

I am having trouble translating surfaces with this version. Anyone else having problems? I keep getting an error message and the progrms automaticaly shuts down. Computer is pent 3 450 with 128 ram and lots of space on harddrive. Ihave changed the config file to allow plenty of memory for the program. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Mike

[cadcam]

Mike are saying when xform translating a surface?

[Mike Annetts]

Hello jay

 

Sorry I didn't know you replyed. Yes I am trying to xform-translate. anything I seem to do with surfaces causes the crash.

 

Mike

[cadcam]

Mike I have to ask the normals what are you using for a video card and waht is the OS (example's Win98 se Win2K)?

[Mike Annetts]

Hello

 

It is a ATI Rage 128 GL Agp and I am running windows 2000.

Mike

[cadcam]

Mike have you tried lowering the Hardware Acclaration?

[Mike Annetts]

Yes I have. It helped with other problems likegarbage left on the screen, etc but not with the surface problem. I have it turned all the way down.

 

Mike

[ProductDevelopmentGuy]

Is it lots of surfaces? Does it crash with only 1 surface? What about non-surface entities? Are they associated with toolpaths? Does it work differently with trimmed and untrimmed surfaces?

Sorry about so many ?'s, but I'd like to try to narrow this down a little.

PDG

[Mike Annetts]

Hello and thanks for the reply. I am quite new to surfaces so I can't really tell you if it occurs with one or more that none, etc. I took an online course a couple of years ago with 7.1 and we used multiple surfaces as part of the course with no problem at all. Since then I haven't used them until Router 8.1 on a couple of files and they both shut the computer down. They are not associated with any toolpaths. I just fired up router 8.1.1 and made a rectangle with the surface creation nurbs on. I did not shade it and translated it down an inch with no problem. I turned the shading on and it immediately crashed and shut the program down. Restarted it and did the exact same thing with a parametric surface. Same thing happened when shading was turned on. Fired it up again and opened another file (turntable) on ftp site. Shading was on and it worked okay, Went to trim surface to surface and it crashed immediately as I clicked on the command.

 

Thanks

Mike

[Glenn Bouman]

Have you tried the same procedure on any of the other half dozen systems that you have at your school?

[Mike Annetts]

No iI haven't as I am trying to learn it on my home computer with my instructors copy. I do not have time at school to learn the surfacing features of Mastercam so I must do it at home after supper. I have played around with surfaces on a few of the computers at school with no problem. Very simple things like creating a rectangle and translating it but thats about it.

 

Mike