Does anyone have trouble opening up two mastecams at the same time?

[Jeff2005]

I am having trouble being able to open up two mastercams so that I can be doing one thing then checking on another. When I go to another job, and then go back to the first job the screen is frozen. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

thanks for the input.

 

Jeff

[Guest]

How much memory is available on your machine?

[cobra95kev]

Hmm,

I have not.

 

What type of computer and OS?

 

Kevin C.

[John13]

no problems here. I have at least 2 open on most days

[gcode]

Machine specs , OS and video details would helo here.

I'm guessing you have harware issues. I have

2 X2 files open at the same time on a regular basis.

My next guess is you have an ATI video card?????

[Jeff2005]

Sorry about that.

 

2-3.2GHZ PROCESSORS (XEON)

3 GIGS OF RAM

DELL WORKSTATION

WITH A NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3400

WINDOWS PROF.

I think that is it.

[Hardmill]

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no problems here. I have at least 2 open on most days

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He means 2 Mastercam sessions dumba$$, not 2 emastercam sessions

 

 

PEACE

[MACHINEMASTERG]

do most of you do this ???run 2 open mastercams with no computer power loss

[RObert TImby]

The only time I have trouble, is when I open one while I'm verifing a part. The one running verify will crash. But usally I will open two or three at a time with no problems.

[gcode]

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2-3.2GHZ PROCESSORS (XEON)

3 GIGS OF RAM

DELL WORKSTATION

WITH A NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3400

WINDOWS PROF.

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That's a nice machine, it should run 2 or three

sessions of mastercam no problem.

Do you have your video card's performace

setting on SolidWorks??

[Ployd]

We typically have at least two MC's open sometimes 3 or 4, plus internet, explore, excel, etc

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

One Solidworks, two Mastercam, Firefox, Citrix, QCD (mp3 player), and a few Windows Explorer windows is typical for me. I've had four or five Mcams open at once in the past. Win XP Pro 64, AMD 4000+, 2GB RAM, Quadro FX 540. Your machine should be running circles around mine, so I'd have a techie look at it.

 

Oh, one thing that just occurred to me. If I leave a Mastercam session thinking about something and it's still thinking about it when I switch back, the screen will be frozen and showing whatever was obscuring it until Mastercam finishes thinking and refreshes the screen. If that's what's going on I wouldn't worry about it, it doesn't take any longer to finish thinking.

[LansB]

I was just going to post this same question. I used to have 3 sessions open at a time no problem until I installed MR1 and SP1. Ever since that I lose my machine parameters and selectabilty whenever I open even 2 at a time.....something is wrong here cuz I've done nothing to my machine but installed the upgrades and now it doesn't work.