Thank you for all your input!

[allaces]

My problem was with my graphics card driver. I uploaded a new driver as was sugested by a respondent and voila! It now works as it should.

 

Thanks again!

Ray

 

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How do I set Mastercam to be able to completely view a large file that's over 3 1/2MB?

This file won't completely come up on the screen when "all levels" are turned on.

There is a lot of surfacing in this drawing.

I have to disable a few levels (surfacing) or the program will bomb

(apparently over some kind of file size limit)

 

I tried uping the values in the "screen", "configuration" menu

but it does not seem to help.

Is there another menu area for setting up larger file limits?

 

Thanks to anyone responding.

Ray

 

[ 03-31-2002, 04:23 AM: Message edited by: allaces ]

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I ROUTINELY have/use/view files well over 10MB and have no problems with them.

 

You mention that you have to hide certain levels? What types of data are on these levels? Is it possible there are corrupt solids on these levels? Are these files imported? What Version of Mastercam are you running? WHat OS(Operating SYstem ex. WIndows 9x, Win NT, Win2k Pro, Win ME, Win XP, etc...), How much RAM do you have? What Video Card are you running? What Graphics Settings are you using? Has this problem always existed or is it something that just started happening? Sorry for all the questions but I really don't have enough information. To accurately answer your question as I've never know this type of problem to happen.

[Charles Davis]

Definitely something wrong with your computer, graphics card, or lack of RAM.

 

3.5 MB should be a cakewalk. I've worked with a lot of file 10-20mb with no problems. Know of one customer working with a 50MB plus files (now that will bog any PC down!).

[cadcam]

I had a customer that had dups of surface for programming the file was 80megs now that slowed my computer down.

[beav700]

Looking back for last two months, the smallest file I had was 7MB. Average file size for me is 30 megs. Had IGES file once of entire mold all in surfases at 132 megs. Had to Winzip it in order to put the file on my 100mb disk.