What am I doing wrong with X6???

[WeGrok69]

Used X6 for the first time yesterday and have had nothing but trouble.

Twice, after creating a tool such as a .03 ball end mill to do some engraving when i did the backplot the tool looked way big and when i looked it was no longer my created tool #3 .030 ballnose but tool #262 a 2 inch ballnose from the library.

I figured some how i messed up and changed it back. I flipped the part over the do so milling on the back side and my engraving from the first side turned dirty.

on the second side I had another tool turn from another created tool to something from the library again - this time i know it wasn't anything i did wrong

Anyway i went back to fix my engraving operation and I can't window the lettering geometry anymore - It will let me chain it but doesn't recognize anything in the window.

My biggest bitch is when i got fed up and went to save it as an X5 version, that is no longer an option. In X5 I can save back as far back as Version 8 but with X6 that is the only thing I can save it as - WHY is that?

When our IT guys installed X6, I they didn't import my X5 stuff into X6 so I came here and go the generic Mpmaster generic 3/4 axis post and definition. So I don't know if that is the problem or if X6 is inherently troubled - from what i am reading it just might be X6 and not me.

What do y'all think?

Nice day here in Boulder Colorado BTW.

-tim

[gcode]

In X5 I can save back as far back as Version 8 but with X6 that is the only thing I can save it as - WHY is that?

 

 

The X6x64 version canot save back to any x32 version of Mastercam..

 

If you have an old x32 workstation lying around, install X6x32 on it...

 

Then you can open your X6x64 files in X6x32... which can save back all the way to V9

 

 

The tool issue ... check the path to the tool library in the machine def..

 

I'm guessing your machine def can't find the tool library so its pulling in a default tool

[Thee Rickster ™]

Did you transform the geometry to machine the other side

or use bottom WCS to do it?

You can't move geometry

that is associatiated to toolpaths, you know that , right?

[Thee Rickster ™]

I get that same problem windowing select for engraving

the longer I have the file open for. Like most minor

nuicences with MC restart MC fixes it.

[WeGrok69]

I used WCS Bottom to do other side - I had three other tools all drilling operations and the are fine.

I see why the 64bit to 32 bit would be the problem. Would I need to buy another seat if i installed X6x32?

I have shut down and reopened several times but still won't window.

thanx everyone

-tim

[?Mark]

Regenerate Display List does it for me, but restarting should also do it, hmm..

[gcode]

Would I need to buy another seat if i installed X6x32?

 

 

no.. just move your HASP to the x32 machine if you need to roll back a file

 

 

 

I have shut down and reopened several times but still won't window.

 

 

what video card are you running.... you may need to dial the Windoz Aero back a notch

[Chris In-House Solutions]

When our IT guys installed X6, I they didn't import my X5 stuff into X6 so I came here and go the generic Mpmaster generic 3/4 axis post and definition.

 

You need to update or migrate your settings from X5 to X6.

 

At the top of the forum there are instructions on how to do this process.

[Aeroguy]

Well your first problem was installing X6 to begin with.

It pretty much goes downhill from there.

[K2csq7]

Well your first problem was installing X6 to begin with.

It pretty much goes downhill from there.

 

+1

 

 

 

[WeGrok69]

Be nice !!!

I copied the lettering to another level and it let me window it but it does the top half of most letters then goes back for the bottom half.

I am going back to X5 we have 5 MC seats - I was the guinea pig - I think we will wait for MU1 before up grading the others

Thanx for all the help

-tim

[fastercam]

When window selecting for engraving, be sure your in "3D", rather than "2D".

Not sure why this should matter, but it does.