91sp1 lathe , mill problems

[Andy]

I just now (finally) upgraded 8.1 to 9.1

Mill and Lathe.

Also downloaded and ran patch files today.

Problems:

 

1: In lathe ops mgr. I delete an op and the ops manager box goes nuts, (can only see parts of it.)

Back out, and choose ops manager, it comes back perfect with 1 op deleted as desired.

 

2: In lathe verify: all seems to work until I choose display holder, or turn true solids off and try to run that and MC locks up and have to Ctl Alt Del to end task to desktop. Every time.

Also, if in verify, I try to change the lengnth of stock, by changing the x or z max, it has no effect on the graphics.

 

3. In Mill none of the above happens, with the exception of Verify turn off true solids. I then get an open GL error, and crashes to the desktop.

I turned the open GL off, to no avail.

 

Anyone have these problems?

After 14 hours of install and trouble shooting, Back to 8.1 for now.

[cadcam]

Andy just do a straght install of 9.1 do not install the SP1 then give it a try.

I have been progamming well with 9.1 I am still going over SP1 my self.

[Andy]

Actually, I had the problems before the sp1 and did the sp1 to see if it would help. It did not.

 

Another clue: In Lathe verify, the colors do not match the tool, stock or cut. Nor can I change them. Also, Translucent selection crashes MC!

 

[ 07-06-2003, 11:25 PM: Message edited by: Andy ]

[Trevor Bailey]

Andy,

 

I tried to go thru and duplicate every problem you said that you had. I could not get my system to crash. I tried it with V9 - 9.1 - 9.1 with new patches. You may just need to update your drivers for your graphics card.

[Andy]

Trevor,

Thanks for trying those things.

I suspect video also. You know V81 works perfect though.

Try drivers is my next effort.

Thanks,

Andy

[gcode]

Andy,

What video card are you running?

I'm running an NVIDIA Quadro card and

have not had any of the problems you mention.

Try turning your hardware aceleration off and see if things improve.

[Zero]

Yeah, I would suspect video card issues as well. I would say turn down your hardware acceleration, but you obviously were running well before this at these settings. New drivers might help.... what card are you using?

[Andy]

NVIDIA GeForce MX-400

I tried Hardware Acceleration to no avail.

[gcode]

Andy,

If you do a search of this forum for the NVIDIA MX

card you'll find that people had all sorts of trouble with them running Mastercam V9.

I think you need a new video card

[Greg McKay]

Andy,

 

I am not sure this will help.

 

I would run cncreg and reset everything on the first screen.

 

I have seen the problem described in opsman.

 

 

When Mastercam is installed graphics card settings are used to control placement and control of some dialog box functions

 

If grahics card settings are changed when Mastercam is running it can have a negative effect on performance.

 

Close Mastercam before changing gcard setting.

 

[ 07-07-2003, 01:34 PM: Message edited by: Greg McKay ]

[Andy]

Greg,

When I ran cncreg first page, chose lathe 9, and reset the three buttons, the third button (Dialogue positions), crashed cncreg (cncreg caused error in mfc42.dll ???

[Greg McKay]

I will ask the programmer who wrote the install.

 

Greg

[Andy]

In the end, after trying different drivers, and windows not allowing it, I put the original Vcard CD in and tried to install that driver and machine crashed. Wouldn't boot, emergency floppy no boot, computer was taken to shop. They did a temp fix, tonite I back up important recent stuff, then back to shop, Format C: D:, Windows 2K

install, and TI4200 128meg new card install. Then I get the enviable task of installing all my programs, and tuning up all for untold hours, and eventually me be happy I hope.

I will report results as I know them.

Thank you all.