Autodrill bug ?

[Kenneth Potter]

Auto drill crashes " perform illegal operation will shut down" this happens after accept all my parameters, click ok crash suthdown. restart mastercam it loads up only the drawing area. No menus,No Icons.

 

CTRl/alt/del to get out . TRYED to shut down windows & freezes every thing. Kill power & restart computer & got everything back up.

 

Ver8

laptop

PentIII700 256Ram win98mil ati 8meg

I have all the latest patches.

I tryed this several times & get the same results.

Can some one help me ?

Kenny

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[KMaynard]

I have the exact same problem.. I'm running a P-2 450 mhz with 256 meg ram and a revolution 9 video card.

[gms1]

I have that problem as well. Anyone have an idea why this is happening?

1ghz processor

512 mb rdram

Elsa Gloria 2 Pro video card

Windows 2000 pro.

v8 MasterCam mill3

I have about 150 megs allocated to mastercam, if that helps any.

 

Greg

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[KMaynard]

should haved mentioned. Running WinNT4 also.

[ProductDevelopmentGuy]

We found and fixed (for V8.1) a serious crashing problem in AutoDrill. The problem arose when pre-drilling is ON, the pre-drill diameter is LESS THAN the hole size, and the pre-drill diameter increment = 0.0.

[Kenneth Potter]

Thanks for clearing that up sir

So what is the work around , if any ?

And while were on this subject.

the Mastercam Version 8 Mill/Design Applications guide, On page 158 to 159 staring at step #2 the instuctions reads.

Main menu/toolpaths/nextmenu/Circ tlphs/Auto drill/.

 

Step #3

 

Save the NCI file as autodrill.nci "

Now at this point there NO menu selection choice to select a Nci file name to save.So i cant move on to Step #3.

 

The on line help makes no mention of saving a Nci file name during the Autodrilling Selection process.

So i ask Whats up with this ??

-Kenny

 

 

 

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[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

This is why online help exists. On very rare occasions the person writing the manual misses something.

James Meyette

[Kenneth Potter]

James

My point is this. which one is right? The book or on line help.This was my first attempt at autodrill & I chose that Manual as a start. I wasted a lot of time playing around with that.Figuring that Im missing a step somewere. I even created a NCI manualy first then tryed autodrill.Then i bounce all over the on help file looking . So i ask.

Must I have a saved NCI or not!

- Kenny

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[ProductDevelopmentGuy]

I guess you could name it anything you want or just use the default name. Does a later example in the Apps Guide use this NCI file for something? Maybe that's why the Guide suggests a name. Anyway, just use the "Change NCI..." button on the "Tool parameters" dialog to set a new NCI file name.

As far as working around the AutoDrill crash, you can 1)turn off pre-drilling, or 2)leave it on and set your pre-drilling increment to something besides 0.0