Mill6 OpenGL Shading

[mcarson]

We have a computer in our CMM room running Windows Nt4 and MasterCAM Mill6. It has an NVidia Quadro2 Pro AGP card. When we select the video mode withing MasterCAM to GL, it will shade once and only once until we exit MC and open the part up again. Is there a setting I'm missing here, or is there a known issue between the two?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Greg McKay]

Mill6.exe was released May 24, 1997.

 

The Quadro was released last quarter of 2000.

 

possible conflict of open gl standard from 97 to 00.

 

I would like to see how this card works in v9. Any one out there running a quadro card.

 

I loaded v6 into 2 nt boxs with sp61 one an ati card and one a viper v770. The ati worked fine the viper locked up after a verify but worked ok on shade unshade op.

[cadcam]

Greg do you have any good drivers for the Vipper 770 ?I have one on a training box with Win2k,

I don't like the drivers I have.

 

If you upload the one's you have to the FTP that would be great so I can try them.

 

thanks Jay

[mcarson]

I've expressed to the shop foreman to upgrade to at least version 8, but they don't seem to listen very well. Is there any work around with this? Some kind of patch or something would be perfect....I'd rather not swap the cards if at all possible.

[kccadcam]

Try here:

http://www.videocarddrivers.com/nvidia.phtml

 

See if some of the older versions will work better.

I've had bad luck with the Viper 770, almost as bad as ATI!!!

[kwolf]

Hi,

 

Try www.geforcezone.com and under tweaks section you'll find an app called NVMAX ....

There are some tweaks for GF/Quadro chips useful for CAD and 'course GAMES.

[Allan]

When you install V6 it gave you a choice opengl or *** (V6 mode or something) perhaps it has been installed sans opengl.

 

There was a file we use to delete in V6 NT4 the name escapes me now. Can anyone remember?

 

Just a thought

 

Allan

[TheePres]

Allan I remember file to delete as Opengl.dll.

But also one of text files in 6.1 explain what to delete.

[mcarson]

I've looked high and low for those files.....not there.....

I will see if an older driver will work. Thanks.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Mastercam Version 6.13a was the last release for V6.The date on my CD says August 22, 1997. For the "lastest" patches available for V6 go here Mastercam Support Archive but if you are already running Version 6.13a you have the latest available. As far as I know they do not patch older products very often.