multiple hard drives & 8.1

[J.Taylor]

I received my update to version 8.1 yesterday, and I am now trying to customize my toolbar, hotkeys etc. I run mastercam off my C:drive, and save the mc8 and nc files to my D:drive. As soon as I modify my .cfg file to save the .nc file to my D: drive, I am unable to post from inside my operations manager. We updated from ver 7.2c, and it worked fine there. Any suggestions to what I maybe doing wrong?

Thanks

J.T.

pen 3 450mhz, win nt, 384 meg

[Mark H]

I run Mastercam the same way you described, with Mastercam on the C: and all of my MC8, NCI and NC files on D: and I am running V8.1. When you say that you can't post, are you getting an error message, or...?

[J.Taylor]

There is no error, when I hit post inside the operations manager, the operation manager flashes from the screen, just like it is going to post the file, and pops back up after a couple of seconds, and doesnt post. The post works fine if I set it to save on the c: drive.

Thanks,

J.T.

[Mark H]

I knew this sounded familiar...

I do not have this problem, but I have heard of this recently. I had contacted Technical Support at mastercam.com (unrelated question) and they had accidentally responded to me with the following (I edited it for brevity...)

quote:

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Subject: RE: Error with Posted Mastercam file

If I understand it correctly, the Post Processing dialog box does NOT display when the Post button is clicked from the Operations Manager. So you have this set of steps:

Operations Manager

Click Post

"flash"

Right back to Operations Manager

If your customer has a different scenario, please tell me what steps are taken and what happens.

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They have obviously been working on it and may have an answer now. If no one here can help and your reseller doesnt have the answer, contact [email protected].

Like I said, I think that you are supposed to contact your reseller before contacting Mastercam directly. Although I dont have the answer, I hope this helps.

[This message has been edited by Mark H (edited 03-14-2001).]

[J.Taylor]

Yup, thats exactly it.

J.T.

[gcode]

Have you checked that your paths are correct

on the Sceen/config/files page??

[Allan]

Look at the screen after you choose post.

Is the save nc file button checked? Mastercam ITIW has defaulted it un-checked.

Without the button checked it does exactly what you describe.

 

[J.Taylor]

When I change the path of the file is when I get the problem. And I also do have the save .nc and edit active. Like I said earlier, the post works fine if I have the path in screen/config set to the c:, as soon as I change it to the d: it will not post inside my operations manager.

Thanks,

J.T.

[BernieT]

Hello,

I just ran into the same problem today. I set the NC file path to A: (Just finished installing Ver 8.1) and it did exactly what you say. Worked fine in Ver 8.0. Changed path back to C: and it works fine. It does work from NC Utilities/ Post Process to the A: drive.

Hmmmmmmmmmm

BerTau

 

[cadcam]

wow thats strange i post my files to the server over the network and dont get that problem even with ver 8.1..

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