vista and mcam9.1

[Guest]

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i had to print a setup sheet for the setup guys in the shop and this thing was huge in X2. but it says its customizable...! by people with small knowledge such as myself or it means i'll need to contact captech and ask them to fix it the way i'd like to have the setup sheet?

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Yes, if can not or don't have the time then asking some one to do it is what needs to be done for customization.

 

You might check out the In-House HTML sheet that is available as a trial on this site and reasonably price, contact your reseller for pricing from In-House.

 

or

 

Do a search for X+ there is a free chook available that might do what you are looking to as well.

 

on the "bubbly thing"

 

I wouldn't do WITHOUT one.

 

If you do 3D work, for only 2D it might be a little overkill, this thing ROCKS!!!!!!!

[cadcam]

James I am with you. they are a must I have one for every programming box I own and that more then one.

 

Elraiis now you have to try dual monitors to.Like my home office.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

Dang Jay, you're office is just way too neat and tidy! I've got 4 monitors in my home office, just on 4 different PC's.

[cadcam]

Todd in my home office that if I turn 360 in my chair that I can see. to 2- 22" wide,1- 20" wide,1- 19"Wide,1- 19" standard and a 1- 15" standard that I can see.Now that clean? I need bigger desks I have three and a long trainning table in here.

[elraiis]

lol... hey guys...what are you saying 2 and 3 monitors? i can't get myself more than the 17" am working on... and i have to ask... why 2 or 3? yes at times i do have about 5 different windows of MC running but not all at once i minimize and jump back and forth! why not get a 60" plazma?

 

heyyyyy... bubbly is what i called it cause i had no other name for it. and i wasn't referring to the one ur using cadcam thats located to the left of your desk but the one to the right... left one is a little too expensive to look at unless one day i learn the programming as much as u guys. but 450$ for a mouse..

 

hey do u guys actually designe using MCX or another software then convert? i had to ask sorry.

[cadcam]

the one to the other left is the cheaper one can be had for about 99 bucks.

As for drawing I have used MC for it all for almost 20 years now.

But I am playing with Solid Works now for fun.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

Jay, you and I are TOO MUCH alike. LOL

[elraiis]

am tempted to order the small one..

[cadcam]

Elraiis, come to the FUN SIDE order now.

Yes we are Todd that is why we have the passion for this.

[elraiis]

there are 2 small ones.. one for 70 and one for 130! the only difference i saw was that for the 130$ one they say its compatible with pro e and a list of softwares.. and the technical support!!! would any of them two work?

[cadcam]

There are 4 diffrent one total and all work with MC. I have three of the 4 for now.

[elraiis]

hey guys... what difference is there between MCX and MCX2? i started the transition with X and today its being updated to X2... I thought i had X2 but i guess its the MR2 or whatever.. is there a remarquable difference i should fear or the difference is in the higher lvls like multi axes and such? anyone knows please?

 

thanks

[cadcam]

From the first MC-X to X2 there have been tool paths and lots of changes on how you use the system add sense the start of X. if you are going from MC-XMr2 there will not be a drastic change that would throw you off.

[Lars Christensen]

Cadcam,

Stupid question..........the dual monitors.....how are you using them to gain advantage over single monitor, I guess I think it looks really cool, but I can not see how the heck it improves anything.

 

Thanks

Lars

[elraiis]

First accident in a machine took place with me today and thanks to X2. xxxx it. u know it updated my customized PST files from MC9!!! well.. i guess it does one **** up job when it updates those files, my drilling cycle is all screwed up upside down and for some milling operations as well... it looked mostly good but towards the end there.. it decided to BOOM. I'm to be blamed as well as the technician who showed me how to convert it who didn't point out that this new system could be catastrophical upon updating posts.

[iowajim62]

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First accident in a machine took place with me today and thanks to X2

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Did you run all ops thru verify before running a part or review the code that was produced after posting before you went to the machine to run parts ? New PC,new software,updated posts would be enough for me to stop and check a few things. Like creating a simple drilling and milling op and post to review the code is right would be a safe way to make sure it's all good.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Lars,

 

It's like having a bigger desk to spread your work out on. I generally have my MC graphics window on the left screen, and all of the other MC windows (Ops manager, levels, ribbon bar, toolpath parameters etc.) on the right on top of my email. When I'm working from a PDF print I put that up on the right so I don't have to tab between them. When I'm tweaking code I'll have PFE32 on the left and NCPlot on the right, which gives me room to have several programs/subs open at once to cut/paste/compare on the left, and then I can drop code into NCPlot for instant backplotting.

[Jayson Kramer]

Lars like some of what Matt was stating along with some time two MC on one screen and the other on well the other. then you can also copy and past from one session to another. also when I do quoting on one screen while programming on the other.

 

[ 11-14-2007, 12:26 AM: Message edited by: Jay Kramer @ Precision Programming ]

[Lars Christensen]

Hmm, sounds very interesting, we are going strongly in the direction of upgrading to X2, and I have a feeling that I have to upgrade my graphics cards when that happens, so.....maybe

 

Thanks guys/

[elraiis]

yes Jim i surely did verify and check my program before sending it out.. in the verify it looked perfectly fine.. and so it did in the backplot. I didnt say it wasn't my fault as well.. i scaned through the code though and it looked fine.. it's more than 98 to 99% good.. i donno what went wrong.. well.. the post went wrong that much i know but the why i donno. and guess what hence the post is causing trouble in X2... boss said go back to v9.1 ! just when i was actually starting to like X2 ya? it has some cool features.. however i still don't see how working with it will beat the speed in working with 9... no way on earth i'd say.. lol.. i know me saying this pulls some sensitive strings for some guys here..

[iowajim62]

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it's more than 98 to 99% good.. i donno what went wrong.. well.. the post went wrong that much i know but the why i donno

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98-99% isn't good enough for this business

sounds like you would be better off building a new post from scratch using latest MPMaster,and like I said about learning on your own time DO IT. You only benefit yourself and your company. Be lucky you get to use Mastercam, I am not right now and miss it ALOT.

[gcode]

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the post is causing trouble in X2

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some of the toolplane stuff is different in X

If you weren't careful, that can bite you

[elraiis]

yep, it bit me alright... here is one confusing thing that came up in X2 with me the other day... I create a machine groupe and although when i click on use the coolant, pick etc.. my tools don't have coolant do i have to pick coolant on manually all the time for each tool or is there a way to turn it on in the configuration that im' missing? and second in the machine group lets say i do op1 group then i created op2 group where i used another WCS...!! now what happened is that as soon as i did this all ops in OP1 group needed to regenerate and the WCS changed in them as to what i have specified in OP2!!! the only way they didn't happen with me is when i created a SECOND Machine group!!! am i missing something? can i have more than one WCS per machine group?

 

last question and sorry for all that guys.. you know the logitec mice? like sometimes they have the zoom and all that and some extra bottons? anyone uses those? i was wondering if i can assign a keyboard key to one of the keys on the mouse like ALT, CTR OR SUCH.. anyone knows if thats doable? doable? looked like diablo thanks all for all

[Guest]

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my tools don't have coolant do i have to pick coolant on manually all the time for each tool or is there a way to turn it on in the configuration that im' missing?

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If you are using old style V9 coolant, there is no way to set your OP defaults. What you need to do is set your tools to all use coolant and the default to "Use tools, step, peck and coolant"

 

Otherwise you have to use the X style coolant and then you can set your OP defaults to the coolant on condition

 

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can i have more than one WCS per machine group?

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Yes you can, I am not sure what you did or how you set it up but it sounds like you physically moved your part, that will make your ops go dirty.

 

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last question and sorry for all that guys.. you know the logitec mice? like sometimes they have the zoom and all that and some extra bottons? anyone uses those?

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My suggestion on this is, while possible, I would not, there have been some issues with 3rd party mouse drivers and it seems using the "generic" driver is the best way. That won't give you the ability to program them for special functions.

[elraiis]

thanks for the reply man but i didn't get it much.. whats v9 style and X style coolant? sorry i didn't catch up there...

 

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Yes you can, I am not sure what you did or how you set it up but it sounds like you physically moved your part, that will make your ops go dirty.

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ok, as long as u say its possible i'll say i did something wrong which is probably the case.. although all i did is click on WCS and select bottom then fit to screeen, pick a pocket and select the plane... and thats all i did. But again.. i donno i may have mis clicked something i donno thanks though...

 

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My suggestion on this is, while possible, I would not, there have been some issues with 3rd party mouse drivers and it seems using the "generic" driver is the best way. That won't give you the ability to program them for special functions.

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am not really a computer wizz... do u mean to say its doable but won't function properly type? who is generic driver? sorry i really don't know what ur referring to... thanks alot

 

ehy guys, am feeling special hence am having all those weird things happening lately let me add one thing and can someone tell me if they got that same error.. when i double click on MCX2 icon, which was working perfectly fine for the last week, it jumps to this blue screen dumping physical memory or whatever!!! anyone seen this? We have MCX2 LVL 1 and the pc is new DELL quad core 3Gbs ram i donno what video card but supposatly someone quadro or whatever am not sure sorry... is it vista? is it.....vista? no seriously anyone knows what am i dealing with here?