V7 INTO XMR1

[DavidB]

How can I open a V7 MC file in X MR1?

[3rdstring]

I believe you have to go through V9.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

I thought in X you could still open V7 using the drop down. I may be wrong again though.

[within a thou]

use your drop down change your exstension to "All files" find your file and ya should be good to go I just did it but got a warning saying the coolant settings would have to be updated

[Lee.]

David,

 

I think X on it's own will or as said earlier V9 but X2 for sure cannot.

 

HTH.

[Guest]

I still have X MR2 installed here at home and yup it still lists v7

 

[DavidB]

Why would they drop V7 from X2?

 

Thanks guys I opened with V9

[Guest]

It is dropped from X2

 

Because David, they only support back 3 versions.

 

Period

[DavidB]

OK thanks John

[DavidB]

Does mean when X3 comes out you will not be able to open V9 files?

 

Go back from X2 MR2 3 versions X2 MR1, X2 and X.

[Guest]

X3

 

Should go back to

 

X2, X, V9

 

But X4 will drop, if they keep the current scheme, V9 will drop off at that point

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

X4?!?!?!????? Geez, talkin 'bout getting ahead of ourselves. haha

[Mark H]

I'm disapointed that MC doesnt read in its older file formats. I still have some MC7 and GE3 files that I might need.

 

With my new computer I dont have the older Mastercam versions installed, just X2 (SP1, MR1, MR2). Would there be a problem if I installed V9 now? Would it overwrite some system files that X2 uses?

 

Or is there a Chook out there that will bring in the geometry from the older files in to the current version of Mastercam?

[Thee Dragracer1951]

I reinstalled V9 when learning X. I had no issues doing so.

But I'm old. I forget stuff....

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

The older releases become a support issue. I don't have a DOS box here to be able to support the real old stuff. I don't even have a system here in the office that runs Win 98. Thats where everything is being driven by. Old software = old hardware typically. While I'm a "GEEK" at home, the oldest software I could run would probably be Win 98.

If you have an older system capable of running an older release, do a mass conversion of the files and back them up, then you will be covered. Get them up to at least V-9. Will be "good to go" for a while.

JM2C

[Storkman]

I'd be careful installing an older version behind a newer one. You'd be better off installing version 9 first then X2.

[Hardmill]

quote:

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I'd be careful installing an older version behind a newer one. You'd be better off installing version 9 first then X2.

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I installed V8 a couple yrs back and ended up uninstalling both

because of problems.

 

Definetly not a good idea.

 

 

PEACE

[John13]

definitely install the older version first.

[Roger Peterson]

It's pretty easy to keep all your files up to date with the import directory function. The only problem was updating a bunch of .ge3 files. But, bulliness made a vb script for V9 to update folders and subfolders of .ge3 files to .mc9 files all at once. That vbscript used to be on ftp site. If not let me know I still have it.

 

HTH

[gcode]

Masterm 3rd Quarter Newsletter

 

This issue is expalained on page 11 of the

3rd Quater newsletter that came out last week.

Its called the Sunset program

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

It is still there in the vbscript folder GE3 2 9.zip

[PeterM]

My two cents in this whole process is when you have surface toolpaths in a V7 or earlier file. With the lack of associativity that V7 had you cannot regenerate that toolpath to be able to backplot it, know what drive and check surfaces you used etc. Being able to update that file is of limited use in those cases. In fact I still have V7 loaded on my system for that instance, but V7 will probably become non functional when we eventually abandon XP so I will migrate those semi useless files at some point.

[Mark H]

Thanks for the replies.

 

I thought there was a program for GE3 conversions, when I get a chance I will have to download it from the FTP.

 

As for installing V9 after X2... the forum consensus is not to do that. So I would have to uninstall X2 SP1, X2 MR1 and X2 MR2. Then install V9 and whatever updates it had, and then reinstall some of the X2s... That’s a lot of time and trouble.

 

Anybody have a MC7 to MCX conversion program?

[Storkman]

Actually Mark, just uninstall X2MR2. Install 9 then reinstall MR2. And I think you will be ok. Version 9 will change some files but X2 should set everything right again.

[Mark H]

Ok Storkman, that just might work.