Mastercam 2017 crashing seleting tool and regen - fixed

[Thee Rickster ™]

I had a problem with a file that i am working on in 2017.

 

First i designed the 6 components in SpaceClaim.

 

I had a windows error that when saving a .stp file that there

were too many characters in the file name string. seen this many times and

it is a widows problem they are aware of but wont fix(in win 7 anyways)

the location on my customer data server has to many characters in all the

folder name and in the name of the file i am saving(whether it is Spaceclaim or excel.)

 

So normally i back space some characters until it saves, and im good to go.

 

Well when i opened MC 2017 started importing the 6 step files i would get weird errors

like .mcam file does not exist and it would crash.

 

So i reopen the file and proceed until i eventually get all the .stp files in the .mcam and save.

 

So this morning i create a boundary and make an area roughing path with a bull mill,

hit go, and it crashes instantly. hmmmm, reselect machine definition and get a

.cam does not exist error and crash. so i try importing the same operation from another

file and regen, crash.

 

So, also  everytime i open the file and hit regen on the only path, it crashed immediately.

 

(scratching head i drag the file to my desktop)

 

I open the file and hit regen......BINGO, it regens

I create another path....BINGO....

 

So I get IT manager to shorten the names of the folders,  in the file string of folders, on the server,

by about 20 characters.

 

I open the file that keeps crashing and repeat what i did with the file on my desktop

and VIOLA i completely finish everything WITHOUT one single CRASH

 

Phew..... what a morning

 

So i thought i would share that in case anyone ha seen the cannot save, name too long

error in which any file being saved. (Excel, word, MC or what ever.)

 

 

Regards

Rick

[Chris Bell CNC Software]

Hi Rickster,

 

Could you email me ([email protected]) what the name of the crashing file path was? Could you send the part file too if possible?

 

Thanks!