A simple question

[Millertime]

We run our mastercam seats off a server and all our config files machine definitions and posts are on a seperate server wich crashed today and will not come back up!!!! We try to launch mastercam and it crashes becaues its looking at the server that is crashed that contains our machine definitions and and posts and configs. We have those definitions and files needed backed up on a usb stick. We loaded those configs and machine definitions on my c drive. The dilema is how can we change the destination that mastercam is looking for those files without actually launching mastercam?

 

Thanks

[Colin Gilchrist]

Try making a backup of your Configuration file for Mastercam, then deleting the configuration file.

 

Also, make sure you load the MD/CD files in \Shared mcamxX\ and the posts in the correct (local) directories.

 

When you startup Mastercam, it will detect that the Configuration file is missing, and it will generate a new one with the system default file locations.

[Millertime]

Thanks Colin

[Aaron Eberhard]

Depending on how hard core your sysadmin got in pointing things around, you may need to edit the path in the registry as well.

 

Obviously, know what you're doing, back up the registry, be careful, etc before doing it, but there are two paths (ShareDir & UserDir) located in Hkey_current_user\Software\CNC Software, Inc.\Mastercam X7\. If they're pointed to the missing server, even Colin's help won't do it.