Mastercam X3 Pre-release

[Chris Bell CNC Software]

As a little thank-you for all the excellent feedback that the users on eMastercam community provide, we would like to extend a special invitation to download the X3 Release prior to its official roll out which is scheduled for next week.

 

The maintenance cutoff date for X3 is June 30th, 2008, so you must have maintenance on that date or later to run X3. To check your maintenance expiration date, click Help / About / Hasp in X2 MR2 (or check HASPX.exe in the Start menu) and that dialog will display your maintenance expiration date.

 

To download and install Mastercam X3, click here. Save the file to your local hard drive, and when the download is complete, double-click on the self-extracting *.exe file and follow the installation instructions.

 

Please feel free to post any feedback in this thread or email [email protected].

 

NOTE: If you are running Microsoft Windows XP x64 or Microsoft Vista x64, please note that to install this download, you may need to install a recent Microsoft Hotfix that will allow the self-extracting *.exe to run. You can download the hotfix here.

[Guest]

WOW

 

 

Aren't you guys lucky

[cobra95kev]

Thanks Chris,

Props to you guys for all of your hard work.

 

[Thee Rickster ™]

Cool

 

Dloading now

 

Do you recomend a side by side install?

 

Will all the little extras like moldplus, X+, view fit, Ai utility and the verisurf note pad work accordingly.

 

(or do we have to wait for updates)

 

Thanks Chris

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Rickster,

 

All those little extras you mentioned are not ours, but I'm betting you will need updates just like during other major releases. Sorry.

[Thee Rickster ™]

thats cool

 

I can use moldplus in X2 Mr2 and open the file in X3 to program it.(till an update is available) that the main one i need

 

I prolly won't need alot of those extras in X3.

 

Cheers

Rick

[rdshear]

Thanks Chris. I'm eagerly awaiting our download to finish. Now if we can just get our IT person out here to do the install...

[Chris Bell CNC Software]

Rickster,

 

Also remember that if you migrate, you will get lots of start-up MTB error messages if you have all of those 3rd-party apps loaded in X2 MR2. They will go away if you use the new "Purge" function when the errors pop up.

[cobra95kev]

Chris,

You are referring to migrating custom tool bars and such right?

[Goldorak]

DL now !!!

 

my reseller will be here tihs afternoon, i will check with him for install

 

 

good timing

[heavychevy2155]

WOW!!! I'm downloading as we speak, I have been waiting on this!!!!

[gcode]

Chris... we need to put up the edits required

so mpamster based posts will function..!!

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Cobra,

 

Yes. All 3rd party applications and chooks are NOT migrated to the new version as many will probably require a rebuild of some sorts. The problem stems from these non migrated apps being added as toolbars to your mastercam interface and now when the MTB files are migrated they have icons pointing to functions that do NOT exist in the X3 install which is why you get these errors upon startup. You can continue using mastercam and just ignore the errors or use the purge function on the startup error dialog to clean out the MTB files.

[ROB]

thanks Chris can't wait to install it.

[cobra95kev]

Thanks Jim.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Chris

 

i always start fresh and re-create instead of migrate toolbars etc(personal preference)

I'm on salary

 

Rick

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Gcode,

 

We will let In-House post these changes to the forum just in case there are other issues that we are not aware of. That way everything can be documented in one shot and even links to their updated posts can be included.

 

A heads up on posts though. No update is required from X2 to X3. There were some changes to the Parameters codes for X3 so if your post uses parameters and you are not getting the correct output, please refer to the Mastercam X3 Post Parameter Reference PDf file in your the X3 documentation folder.

[Ocean Lacky™]

WOOHOO!!!

 

Got first crash while converting Operation Defaults on a X2MR2SP1 file I was working on this morning!

 

 

Here we go!!!!!!

 

 

But seriously, Good Work guys!

[rdshear]

I'm still waiting on our IT person For anyone who has done the install, How big is the documentation folder? Is it small enough someone could zip it up and e-mail it to me or put up on the FTP? I'd like to start reading on what is needed to make the move from our current X2 install to X3.

 

Thanks,

 

Rick

[cobra95kev]

Rick,

Even zipped it is 164 megs. Even the whats new file is 12 megs. I can try and E-mail that but I bet it is still too big.

[rdshear]

Yeah, I don't think the email would handle that. Oh well, I guess I wait a couple more hours for our IT person. I really wish they would just let us have administrative rights on our local pc's here so I could do it myself. Thanks for the effort though cobra.

[Thee Rickster ™]

I see no lag issues and the verify is outstandingly

better, shaded level open and closing no lag, etc...

 

I can play with this thing all day(might even get some work done)

 

Btw I tried the migrating when prompted on install. I got errors when opening up but deleted the 'x+' tool bar and a few unnecessary ones and the errors are gone

 

rick

[Hardmill]

quote:

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(might even get some work done)

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Thats total and complete

 

 

 

PEACE

[Thee Rickster ™]

yup, it sure is

I am at home today

boss gave me the day off

[Kannon]

dont forget those X3 users to update your siggys..

 

I would have put it in Thads sticky but for some reason its locked.

 

how bout a X3 icon