mill8.exe error

[jwpainter]

Has anyone had this problem?

 

You get in the groove and are flying though toolpaths and .mc8 files like the wind and all of the sudden, WHAM, you forgot to turn off the shading before saving the file. Now you have the "mill8.exe has caused an error and will be shut down" problem. I now get to do everything all over again.

 

Is there a fix for this or do I have to get out of the groove and turn off the shading before saving my work?

[Christian Raebild]

Try the following procedure:

 

Go to the Windows Start menu, Programs, Mastercam, CNCReg.

 

Got to ActiveX/DLL components.

 

Select mc8view.dll (or mc8view2.dll if that is displayed instead), mark "Regiser Control" and click "Apply".

 

Repeat that for mcbitmap.ocx and mclstctl.ocx, and then restart windows.

 

Your problem sounds like a graphics driver problem, and that procedure usually solves such problems. If you are using Windows 95 or 98, you might also try to replace the Mfc42.dll found in the Mastercam directory with a newer version for your Windows version, that file has also been known to cause problems on some setups (primarily early Windows 98 versions and OEM versions of any Windows version).