X3 - slow toolpath generation

[Leigh @ Kodiak]

Somebody please help me here....

 

My computer is smoking fast, no issues there. Verify runs great. everything in Mastercam works fine. But toolpath generation time is super slow. A simple 2D contour takes over a minute to generate!!

 

If I look at the task manager while it's generating, it shows VERY little load on both my ram, and my CPU. Can anybody point me at things to look at?

 

NOTE: this is a recent thing....X3 was fine up untill a couple of days ago.

[gcode]

Have you rebooted recently... some guys never

shut down and a memeory leak can slow things to a crawl.

Are you on a network??

Is your MCX file on a network?

If so try working off the C drive and see if things speed up

[Leigh @ Kodiak]

I actually figured it out. Just so people are aware, what was causing the problem was that in the stock definition for this machine group, I had a very large STL selected. After I changed it to be a rectangle, everything was just fine.

 

WHY Mastercam looks at my stock definition for a 2d contour operation is beyond me...

[Mark H]

This just happend to me, but instead I had a solid selected in my "stock setup". It took 5 minutes to a generate simple 2D toolpath. Did you report this to QC at Mastercam?

 

Funny thing is you can see Mastercam looking at the solid even though its not needed for this 2D toolpath. What I mean by "looking", its redrawing the solid as if to shade it.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

I get this whenever I have a solid or STL file selected as stock. I reported it a few weeks ago and was hoping for a fix in MU1, but no such luck.

[Chris Bell CNC Software]

Hi guys,

 

I logged this as bug number cnc00039522. Thank you.