Mastercam Lathe v5

[Tintivilo]

I just started working with a mfg company, and one of the machines using mastercam lathe 5 just starting getting a framing error, any ideas why/how to fix this?, A prompt appears with the options to quit or ignore the error, i am going on limited information so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[robk]

Tintivilo,

 

Welcome to the forum.

V5., wow it's been years since I have even used version 5. Not sure if I could be of any help here. Your boss should think about upgrading.

When you say the prompt tells you to ignore or quit-- Is it a mastercam prompt or windows?

What do you mean by "getting a framing error"?

Please be mor specific.

 

Rob

[Tintivilo]

thanks for the quick reply

 

The prompt is a win ui prompt, i am not familiar with this program, does it use win ui for all its prompts or its own? The prompt says the following

 

`FRAMING ERROR: Click OK to QUIT, or CANCEL to IGNORE`

 

When asked if this occurr's at specific times or when X is done X happens, etc, i was told most of the time, since no one is at the machine 24/7, when they need to use it, they come back to it, to find the error displayed.

 

ignoring the error doesn't stop the ability to use the program, but it would be preferred to remove this problem asap, at this point upgrading is i dont think an option, perhaps in the future, i am not quite sure if all of the machines are running the aame version also. thanks again!

[Keith Graydon]

Tintivillo, Hi!

 

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i am not quite sure if all of the machines are running the aame version also

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Is Mastercam installed on the lathe controller or is it the typical offline installation on a PC?

 

 

-Keith

[Tintivilo]

offline pc installation

[Greg McKay]

When I have seen framing errors in the past it has related to communications.

 

Does this error appear when you are trying to run an nc file. Cut parts or send file to machine?

[Brendan P]

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When I have seen framing errors in the past it has related to communications.

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I also agree.

I have only seen this when trying to upload or download to and from the machine control.

[Tintivilo]

2 people here are going to watch it as much as possible and check the connections and ill see where i can go from there, thanks for the help