Mastercam crashes when surfacing or finishing

[altek-inc]

Mastercam has been crashing on my system when im surfacing or finishing.

 

Here is a picture of the error

Mastercam Error

 

Error = Mill9.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. An Error log has been created.

 

Were are using Mastercam 9 Mill SP1

Computer:

2ghz P4

1gb RAM

60gb HD

Oxygen Video Card

[BK]

I have had this happen in the past and the only thing I can tell you is that it usually occurs if there is something wrong with the surface (or solid) model. If it's a surface use the analyze function to check the surface geo. If it's a solid there are now some tools to verify a solid in V9. If you're not running V9, Creat a surface, from solid, then use the surface checking tools I mentioned to verify the geometry. One thing I do is to create a surface machining toolpath I set all of the parameters (stepover, filter, etc) very big and see what happens. If the software crashes it is almost always due to bad geometry. That is when you need to take a closer look at the model. I've actually had solid models (Parasolids) that imported and had "holes" in them. These were usually models that had been through several different cad packages before going into MasterCam. Sometimes you have to Band-Aid em to make them machineable.

HTH,

Bob

[Joe S.]

I agree with BK on possible solutions,also I would like to add the standard answer that I

got............check for an update on your Video

card.This was a problem with my system (Windows XP)bombing out......until I got the update.Now I run pretty much error free.(I still get a stray error about every 3 weeks)