X7, adding tools to first Mach/Tool group and import failure

[Thee Rickster ™]

Has any one notice any peculiar behavior when X7 is open too long?

 

When it starts to go buggy, you import a an entire toolpath group from another file

or from a group of ops, the 'tool' parameter page is empty.

 

AND all the tools imported in got add to the first MAch/Tool group and gave random

numbers to the tools listed. So say 'tool 3' was 1/2" em, when I went back in there

were drills and different end mills that were also tool 3' that I imported into the different

toolpath groups

 

Same result if you add tools to a toolpath group the imported ones don't show up.

 

they post and you can renumber the tools, but you CAN NOT edit them

 

I showed In-House this but no solution was found.

once I closed MC and restarted it was fine.

We cleared the Temp in hopes that that may help.....

 

This time I got lucky and I closed with out saving and it must have erred

after my last save, the two times before I had to redo all the affect toolgroups.

 

If anyone has seen this and know of a setting or something to stop the problem

from happening. please let me know.

 

Thanks in advance

Rick

[Thee Rickster ™]

I made a mistake in the first post

restarting mastercam does not fix this

 

 

 

Here is a pic proof of this error, bug or what ever it is.

 

I was designing all day.(not in MC)

Open an unfinished job and started working on it.

 

not even 5 minutes into the job it happens again

 

I created the 1/2" bull and 1/2 em from scratch and imported the

9/32 drill and then the 1/4" drill and the 1/4 does not show up

 

If ANYBODY has experienced this and has a solution can you

please share it with me. X8 is too far away and back to X6 cant be my only option....

 

Thanks in advance

 

Rick

 

 

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[Thee Rickster ™]

Here it is not bringing in any of the tools upon import, after restarting MC!

 

Now I have to remake all the needed tools from scratch.

 

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[Mick]

That happened to me yesterday. I thought it was something I had done, (though I couldn't work out what or how I had done it), and I ended up having to recreate all 18 tools.

 

Sorry, I don't have a solution.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Hi Mick,

 

So far the only solution on generic path you use daily is to

save the tool path operations as you make them to an X7 specific

folder.

 

Once this happen in a file i can not import from any previous versions of MC

or any tool paths saved from previous version.

 

Its gonn be a long month not being able to import ops.

 

Hopefully CNC will chime in to find a workaround or a fix or a patch.

[david]

I run into this all the time. We may have as many as 5 different machines in one part file with each one doing a different operation to the part. We have standard tools that are always the same tool numbers for each machine, and occasionally the tool paths imported from the same machine on a similar part will be brought in and the tools will be dumped into the first machine group. And these files were created with X7mu2 so I know there is no conversion from an older version of Mastercam. Good luck on figuring out a solution.

[Thee Rickster ™]

And these files were created with X7mu2 so I know there is no conversion from an older version

of Mastercam. Good luck on figuring out a solution

 

Great, and no fix or MU3 or help from CNC to resolve this.