X4 freezing and crashing when enabling 'tip comp'

[E3CADCAM]

I've had this happen five times already this morning. When creating or editing a drilling op, changing the tip comp checkbox sporadically causes x4 to crash and burn. Anyone else had this scenario yet?

[gcode]

Check your file paths and make sure you are

really using the X4 tool libraies..

If you are using your own libraies, make sure

you have updated them to X4 with the

File/Import function

[E3CADCAM]

So far the only tools I've used have been from 'mill inch'.

[gcode]

Make sure you are using X4 "mill inch"

not X3 "mill inch"

[Brian B 74]

Having the same problem. In regards to the X3 tool libraries my X4 doesn't recognize any tools in my X3 tool library (shows it empty).

 

This has happened to me twice today and I am using an X4 tool library.

[Chris Parish]

To All:

 

Change your hardware acceleration... I had to do it between x3 and X4 (set it to "full" )... It will then work

[Brian B 74]

And where do we find this "hardware acceleration"?

[FP1]

In XP, right click on desktop,properties,settings,advanced,troubleshoot tab?

[MotorCityMinion]

Change hardware acceleration in Windows to get the tool tip comp to work in a drilling op? Gotta luv MC. For the last three weeks , I've been reading the forums daily, instead of the comic section. Watching this take place is even more entertaining than the X3 fiasco.

[Leigh @ Kodiak]

Although I do truly believe MC needs some (a lot) of work in the graphics department, I would hardly call X4 a fiasco. I wouldn't go back to X3MU1 if you paid me!

[gcode]

My current project is over 40 meg

containing 60 solids and over 300 operations

200 of which are drilling ops with and without

tip comp. I've been working on the file

off and on for a couple of weeks and it has never

froze up or crashed. I turn tool tip off and on

all the time.

Furthermore I absolutley refuse to turn down hardware acceleration. I pay big bucks for high end Quadro cards and I will not turn them down.

So far X4 has been rock solid. I had some crashes

in the early betas, but the last beta and

the current public release have been rock solid.

 

my2cents

[gcode]

2 things to check..

make sure you are using an X4

tool library

make sure you are using an X4

machine def/control def and post.

If you open an X2 or X3 file in X4

the X2 or 3 machine def/post and

tool library are still active and

it can cause you trouble.

You need to load an X4 machine def and

tool library.

[kool]

[E3CADCAM]

disappointed... I'm no professional software engineer by any means, but I wish there was a little more QC before a new release. Someone inevitably has to pay for lost time, am I supposed to include that into the quote, MC crashes and lost data??? Just frustrating...

[FP1]

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just frustrating

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Erick, so did you try any of the suggestions above? Did any of them solve the problem from your original thread?

[strabe]

I started a new thread on this subject not knowing this one was here until later. I did what gcode and the others said to do in this thread and everything was fine until the end of the day yesterday, when I clicked on Tip Comp, MC crashed and burned. I made sure that I'm using X4 tool library so now I'm stumped.

[Brian B 74]

I guess an alternative is to use the tip calc button next to the depth setting under the drilling Linking Parameters tab until they get this fixed.

[Scott Lundin Shopware Inc.]

Guys, this is a known bug. Goldorak has the work around in this thread

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tip comp is a listed bug [Wink]

 

i simply click the green check , them return add tip comp , this is annoying but it works

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