mastercam x6 unavalable again

[mig]

mastercam x6 unavalable again ????

What kind of game it is?

Please explane what is going on there ?

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

If it's not available... consider it not available. They evidently found some problems with the release so they pulled it down.

[Mic]

CNC sure isn't very informative on this matter.

 

What about all the user who already upgraded to X6. Should they go back to X5?

 

An official statement from CNC could be nice.

[Goldorak]

CNC sure isn't very informative on this matter.

 

What about all the user who already upgraded to X6. Should they go back to X5?

 

An official statement from CNC could be nice.

 

 

yep , it's frustrating

[DavidB]

Yep I downloaded it too should I use it or not? If they pulled it down it makes me think they found something major not just a little bug. So my guess would be don't use it until it's up for download again.

[shazam/TPP]

i would assume all of you still have x5 mu1, so delete x6 and go back to x5 until cnc puts it back up for download. this isn't rocket science people

[neurosis]

Not everyone reads this forum that has downloaded and uses X6. Maybe after a few people have contacted them regarding machine crashes due to botched clearance moves, they will release a statement warning not to use the software until further notice.

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Sorry for being late to the game here guys, but I have been out of town on vacation and just getting caught back up on these issues. We ran into a couple of issues that we didn't like and wanted to take a quick look at them so we disabled the downloads.

 

The issues we are looking at are:

• 0 value for vertical arc entry in Optirough Toolpaths is causing the tool to hit the part. 0 was valid and working in X5 MU1. Entering a small vertical arc value makes the tool clipping the part go away.
  
• Problem using the parameter save function inside a toolpath corrupting your default file - Seems to be only when using the updated defaults function inside the toolpath parameter page of a 3d HST toolpath. If you are using X6 just back up your default files in case you updated them by mistake in X6 and they get corrupt. Even if they get corrupt, you can still continue creating the toolpaths you will just see a error dialog every time the defaults are accessed - just click through it.
  
• When selecting geometry that has points from some toolpaths (facing, circle mill, etc) using Pickoff / pull/cutoff feature in X6, the points are being lost in the original operations and the ops dirty dirty. You have to add the point geometry back in or do not select the points during geometry selection.
  
• X6 file association is broken - causes X6 files to not be associated to the X6 functions - ie - double clicking on a MCX-6 opens X6 but with a blank file and not the part you double clicked on. You can manual edit the registry to fix this one.
  

 

We are looking into what is required to fix these and determining if a patch is sufficient or if we need to re-release the X6 installs. I will post again as more information becomes available.

 

Jim

[Tony35]

thanks for sharing that info with us Jim

[JMWorks]

Sorry for being late to the game here guys, but I have been out of town on vacation and just getting caught back up on these issues. We ran into a couple of issues that we didn't like and wanted to take a quick look at them so we disabled the downloads.

 

The issues we are looking at are:

• 0 value for vertical arc entry in Optirough Toolpaths is causing the tool to hit the part. 0 was valid and working in X5 MU1. Entering a small vertical arc value makes the tool clipping the part go away.
• Problem using the parameter save function inside a toolpath corrupting your default file - Seems to be only when using the updated defaults function inside the toolpath parameter page of a 3d HST toolpath. If you are using X6 just back up your default files in case you updated them by mistake in X6 and they get corrupt. Even if they get corrupt, you can still continue creating the toolpaths you will just see a error dialog every time the defaults are accessed - just click through it.
• When selecting geometry that has points from some toolpaths (facing, circle mill, etc) using Pickoff / pull/cutoff feature in X6, the points are being lost in the original operations and the ops dirty dirty. You have to add the point geometry back in or do not select the points during geometry selection.
• X6 file association is broken - causes X6 files to not be associated to the X6 functions - ie - double clicking on a MCX-6 opens X6 but with a blank file and not the part you double clicked on. You can manual edit the registry to fix this one.

 

We are looking into what is required to fix these and determining if a patch is sufficient or if we need to re-release the X6 installs. I will post again as more information becomes available.

 

Jim

 

 

Anxiously awaiting a fix