V9 Solids problems

[kccadcam]

Has anyone else been having problems with solids in V9??

I've had multiple drawings crash on me.

I'll work on a drawing and then resave it, then try to call it back up and it will either give me all kinds of parasolid errors or completely crash Mcam9.

[kccadcam]

Forgot,

 

win2000pro

Mcam V9SP1

oxygengmx1

[kccadcam]

Also, if I write out a parasolid file and bring it back in it seems to be fine but I lose the History!

The parasolid will come into Solidworks and CadKey fine also.

[kccadcam]

It seems to be "SHOCKER!!!" operating system or video card related.

Tried them on other PC's and get different results every time!

[P_Scott]

Kevin,

 

FYI, whenever you write a Parasolid file from Mastercam the "history" is not written with it. That's true of all CAD software using the same Parasolid kernel. Is your surface shading turned on as you attempt to work on the solid? A lot of the video card's resources are being used if the shading is on. Try to update the drivers for that video card. See if you can find a current mature Open GL driver for that card from the manufacturer's site. Have you increased your data allocations or kept them on the default values? It could be any number of things. If you are getting different results on different computers, than it isn't a software issue. HTH

[TheePres]

Kevin my system that was working fine on Win98, ceashes at any attempt at solids after upgrading to Win-2K.

[kccadcam]

I've noticed that win2k and especially xp are very picky when it comes to open gl drivers.

 

But I'm also noticing some parasolids problems with saving files and calling them back up and them being corrupt,I originally thought was operating system related but now I'm not sure.

 

Same thing on different computers, but only sporadic.