verify problems

[dforsythe]

Mastercam x4 mu3

 

mastercam might crash on me once a month since x4-mu3. the only problems i have are in verify. i sent the below e-mail to my local mastercam reseller and support @mastercam.com. If anyone has any ideas to help please do so.

 

Thanks, Damian

 

This is a relatively simple part. It has 6 machine groups in it. 4 3 axis and 1 5 axis and 1 angle head. A lot of surfacing using surface high speed and surface rest roughing, pencil ect. The file size is around 125 meg. I have tried lowering the resolution all the way down along with the stl tolerance. I have tried ram saver and also tried saving multiple operations as STL files and tried to finish it this way. I have called before with the same issue and the answer I got was “I’m not sure what the problem is.

 

[?Mark]

Had this problem just today. Doesn't happen as often in x4 as it did in x3 (or is it a new computer ). What fixes it most of the time is recreating and stl file that either defines the stock or is used for a restmill operation. Is verifying crashing at the exactly same spot during verification ?

[dforsythe]

mark,

 

No its kind of random, but always near the end of the prog. i will try using cad instead of prev operations for the restmilling. Im 99% sure its a mastercam issue. i saved a copy of the file, deleted the prev 5 ops to bring the file back down to 60 meg and it ran the rest of the way through. its a work around, but i like to have one file, one model and to verify the whole part and use stl compare.

 

thanks for the help.

[nhraguy]

Try going to system configuration,toolpaths and set your "memory buffering" to 99%. this helped me and now i very rarely get this error.

[dforsythe]

FYI from mastercam:

 

, Consider the following workarounds:

 

Move the speed quality slider closer to speed in the verify dialog.

-Click the options button and increase the tool tolerance.

- For stock Model use block instead of a solid or stl file.

- If your model or toolpaths are very complex consider verifying a smaller number of operations at one time.

[Josh T™]

It does it to me regularly when using STL files especially when I save the STL in verify... seems to flip out a lot.

[Code_Breaker]

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The file size is around 125 meg.

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This is not a TRUE verification software ... it is limit to the number of triangles produced in the stl files ...

 

I suggest saving stl after each machine group to start with and use it for the next machine group ...

 

I use Vericut to finalize my programs, but still use this software just to make sure nothing funny of out of the ordinary is going on.

 

So, when I get too big of a file (anything over 85 meg) I will up the "tool tolerance" and "stl tolerance" to .005 in your "Verify Option" dialog box ... move the "speed - quality" slider on notch below quality (sometimes two) ...

 

Again, I only use this to look out for funny move as I program ... Vericut for the real deal ...

 

HTH

[Mick]

This error happens to me all the time. In fact, so often, I have pretty much given up on verify for all but the simplest parts.

 

It is pretty unfortunate, since our posts are pretty dialed, so generally, what you see is what you get. We encounter the error on anything that uses a model or STL file for stock.

 

Verify used to work fine (several versions back) but sadly it seems broken now

[Thee Rickster ™]

Keep in mind it is 3rd party software