Mastercam X2 Maintenance Release 2

[crazy^millman]

Read my response in the other thread.

[Newbieguy]

Yeah, I saw that Ron. I'm just annoyed that another "maintenance release" rolls out with bugs. Sure would be nice to get releases without bugs.

 

And before anyone starts ragging on me, we've been using MasterCam since it was shipped on the big 5.5" floppy discs (back in 1989). My username "Newbieguy" only refers to me being a newbie to the forums.

[Kannon]

Walcott, Iowa

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And before anyone starts ragging on me,

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These guys dont rag on ya...especially if your from Iowa

[Thad]

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I'm just annoyed that another "maintenance release" rolls out with bugs. Sure would be nice to get releases without bugs.

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And before anyone starts ragging on me, we've been using MasterCam since it was shipped on the big 5.5" floppy discs (back in 1989).

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Then you shouldn't be suprised that software has bugs.

 

Thad

[Ed@Elite]

gcode

Did you download and install

vcredist_x86.exe

first??

 

 

Yes I did. I had MR1 working on the computer with no problem installing that from the web.exe install file. So I dont know what was going on, but like I said it worked when I made the CD from the MR2CD1 ISO file I got from my reseller.

[Newbieguy]

"Then you shouldn't be suprised that software has bugs.

 

Thad"

 

 

Ahh Thad - you got me there! So true!!!!

[Tinny]

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Ok did not say what video card is. Also what are the settings on the Video card?

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Yeah I did in the post above. Quardo 3500, it has standard settings

[Rob_Bish]

Not renewing the maintenance contract any more. Company has decided to freeze solidworks, mastercam at this point in time, as we cant see any justification for the added expense.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

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Not renewing the maintenance contract any more. Company has decided to freeze solidworks, mastercam at this point in time, as we cant see any justification for the added expense.

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Then you shouldn't be surprised when you can't open your customer's files in a few months. SW2008 is rolling out now, X3 should show up probably sometime next year, and I'm sure everything else is putting out new versions too. Up to date translators are a prerequisite to doing business.

[Sonya Kasper - Cimquest]

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I installed MR2 over my MR1 installation. What a mistake. Continually get a "Unhandled Exception Occurred - Mastercam execution halted" error and bombs out my program.

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I am having the same error. It worked for one day with no problems, then suddenly this error and X2MR2 won't open. Trying reinstall.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

If nothing else, AT LEAST keep one or the other updated. Transators alone are worth the cost. Case in point, company I know of (I heard this from a friend), a company they farmed work to, they did not keep up on maintenance for either Solidworks or CADKey, anyway, they imported about 75% of their work, going from drawings or sketches the remaining 25% of the time, well, half of their customers (representing about 2/3 of their workload) said they "...would not convert their files to ANY format. You read our native files or no more work from us...". Long story short, they nearly had to re-pay for their Solidworks/CADKey seat to get it up to date.

 

Moral of the story, be prepared to loose work not being able to read in customer files.

 

JM2C

[D Ford]

I'm have trouble with MR2 crashing while tring to edit a tool path. Dealer subjested to delete older version. The problem still persits, called dealer friday at 1pm, still no answer from dealer.

I'm not happy with the responce.

[Guest]

Can you recreate the problem the same way every time?

 

Is this only happening to one file, have you tried the same thing in another file?

[D Ford]

I'ts happened on several files so for.

I down load the up grade and had it do it's on location.

[Rob_Bish]

We only produce parts for our own use so no problem there.

[gms]

FIRST thing I checked..... Stupid Xform STILL defaults to "COPY" instead of "MOVE"!!!!!!!!!!

 

My number 1 pet peeve wasn't fixed???!!!!! C'mon, guys, let's HOLLER a little louder!! :-(

[ToolMan184]

WE Can HOLLER all we want to, it will fall on deaf ears im afraid.

[beej]

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FIRST thing I checked..... Stupid Xform STILL defaults to "COPY" instead of "MOVE"!!!!!!!!!!

 

My number 1 pet peeve wasn't fixed???!!!!!

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if that's the only thing wrong with it. They did good. Personally I kinda like the copy default.

[sharles]

Well I just got back from vacation and I thought I'd take the jump into MR2. Brrr! Maybe I'll jump back out. MR2 keeps crashing on me for NO reason. I mirrored a part with toolpaths and I couldn't get a good contour program from the one curve even though I reselected the curve, remade the curve by putting points on it and then creating a new spline, remade the curve using different adjoining surfaces. I finally got a good contour program after wasting 1/2 hour or more.

 

On backplot/quick verify I have to hit the button twice before it will display the entire toolpath???? I also get the veeeeery slooooooow start up like others are getting. My prompt for toolpath names, even though set to "always" doesn't prompt for the first toolpath of each group.

 

Well done, though, on fixing the create curves bug! I was so ready to move up once that bug got fixed but now it crashes so much that maybe I'll just stay in X2 SP1 longer.

 

I do like some of the new features, but I don't understand this insane rush to add more and more features when mastecam can't produce a product with minimal bugs. In my opinion X MR2 was the best release and I'm still kicking myself for moving up to X2 when I lost how smooth_running that version was. How about just one maintenance release that would focus on killing the majority of the bugs that are infesting mastercam?

[gcode]

Scott.. its got to be something with your setup

I've got MR2 running on 4 machines here and one at home.. we have yet to have a crash.

So far its rock solid.

[LaszloK]

I don't have a problem with the copy default. Half of what I xform I want copied any way. Also, X2mr2 has been very stable here. No crashes on 2 systems.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

+1 to it being VERY stable.

 

When I have a ton of Transform Ops it gets slow, or very slow, but it still does not crash. I just have to give it it's time to complete whatever it needs to complete and all is well.

 

Personally I'd re-install it, or rather, do a complete un-install, deleted the mcamx folder, check the registry and clean if necessary. It should be clean but in case it's not, do it. Then re-install.

 

JM2C

[kkominiarek]

if i downloaded and installed mcam x2 mr2. do i still need to download all patches, add-on's and updates for mr2?

[sharles]

Ok, do you suggest I completely unistall it and do a whole new install or just get rid of the config file that I brought in from my x2 sp1 and start with a fresh config file?

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Don't think it would hurt to start a new config file. Could save a new install.