X3 MU1 crashes when printing and saving...

[Thee Rickster ™]

It happened a few times over the last few weeks.

 

TODAY, 4 times two on each circumstance of hitting

either the save or the print button.(lost approx

15 min each time)

 

I have rebooted 5 times today...

 

a total of 1 hr lost.

 

Anyone else having this problem?

 

Technically you lose an hour, 1 hour to catch up,

and thats 2 hours, 1 hr you could of progressed while you were catching up plus the intial hour

lost!

 

Sorry nothing to cheers about

 

Rick

 

[ 03-03-2009, 12:23 PM: Message edited by: Rickstrap ]

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

Rick, believe it or not I have seen video cards cause trouble when printing. Had a PC with an ATI card that would fail and go white screen whenever I tried to print. Solved this problem by disabling hardware accleration in the settings/configure/screen category. It may not solve your problem but its easy to try out.

[Thee Rickster ™]

I will not use ATI.

 

I use, 'the recommended best brand' Invidia Quaro

FX 1500.

 

I checked the disable hardware acceleration box,

saved and restarted MC. Lets see if that works.

 

Thanks for the tip.

Rick

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

Go to www.solidworks.com and under the "certified" drivers find the one for your NVIDIA Quadro.

[gcode]

Some things to try....

Clean out your temp file

Reload your machine defintion

Turn off the save a bitmap option

Check the "disable front buffer" option on the screen page

Make sure the "Open GL option is enabled

[Thee Rickster ™]

gcode, is there a way to reload the machine def

on all the machine groups at once?

Or do I have to do it to all 20 separately?

"disable front buffer" was not check

 

Our X2 MR2 seats crash more often than mine for

different reasons, will those setting apply to

all 'X' versions?

 

 

Todd I already have that latest driver installed.

How does hitting the 'print Icon' botton(crashing)

relate to the video card?(software developing bug?)

 

Thanks for the tips Gents

 

Rcik

[gcode]

Rick.. you have 20 different machine groups in 1 file??

after checking the "diable front bugger" option, you need to resart Mastercam for it to take effect.

[Thee Rickster ™]

gcode, exagerated a bit.

 

use a separate machine group for each component so I don't have to keep changing the stock sizes for verify

 

Big job example:

 

Core base = 1st (mach group)[Tool group for each]

core insert #1 = 2nd (Mach group)

core insert #2 = 3rd (etc)

cavity = 4th

cavity insert = 5th

slide #1 = 6th

slide #1 insert = 7th

Slide #2 =8th

slide #2 insert = 9th

two stage Core pin #1 = 10th

core ejection plate = 11th

cavity ejection plate = 12th

compound angle slide mount bracket for S1 = 13th

pneumatic cylinder mount block for S1 = 14th

 

When i create a mach group

I always re pick the machine def for each group even though its the 'only one' and default in my system config.

and MC still forgets it sometimes(rarely) and tell me the tool path is wrong for the machine group and I one have the one in there...lol

 

Cheers

 

Rick