MCAM Crash

[CNCGUY]

While doing a drill cycle,

 

I pick the drill,

Right click to pick depth,

Left click on Z,

Esc. (changed my mind on soemthing) and this is what I get.

 

 

No matter what I do(OK or cancel) it crashes.

 

I can recreate it with any file. Has anyone else seen this?

 

9.1 SP2

[Brendan P]

I use lathe every day and have never seen this.

 

If you want,put it on ftp and I can see if it does happen to me as well.

[chris m]

I just did it in 9.1 with no service packs installed and had no probs; maybe a SP2 prob?

 

C

[Philcott]

Troy,

 

I do not get this error. All I get is the "out of range" box saying -1000000.0 to 1000000.0 and can then escape or put in a value to continue.

 

V9.1 sp1 This may be why I don't have the problem??

 

Phil

[Jody]

I have been getting that a lot the last 2 month in Mill. It did it more when I would shade and unshade the part and use the middle button to rotate the part. I thought that it was a bad memory chip in the old computer. But I have had it with this new computer also.

 

Jody

[mmonica]

I tried it with lathe 9.1 SP2 and got the same result.

[crazy^millman]

Happens to me all the time. I have found that it is a mother board and a Memory problem. I had a new mother board and Memory put in this thing and it worked great for about 1 month and now it is doing it again. I got all kind of answers on how to check it look for the spefic problem you will see I asked about 2 months ago I think.

[Brendan P]

I just tried it v9.1sp2 did not have any problems.

[Harryman]

V9.1 sp2 + maintenance = BOOM

[Fig sign]

It can also be a graphic card or it`s driver problem ,I have no such prob. but I `ve seen it .

[crazy^millman]

Owl was one of the people helping me when it happend to me.

[Phred]

what OS are you running? How much ram do you have installed? what are your allocations?

[Nominal]

9.1 sp1 is ok with it. Just complains that the value is out of range. I'm still waiting for my rep to send me sp2 otherwise I'd try it.

[Fig sign]

This is not directly connected to the topic,may be not connected at all ,but i`ll say.

 

I HATE THIS THING :

Windows 2000 and XP automatic updates .

I never use it and disable on every computer my hand are getting on .

You never know what can happen after next update,

I update only crucial things like security patches and this is my own decision.

You can not be sure that it is not autoupdate changed some dll or something

Deinstall your graphic card driver and install once more .

 

Iskander Teh Kernel panic

[CNCGUY]

9.1 SP2 (Lathe and Wire)

 

Sytem Config

Win 2K SP4

96 MB RAM

AMD 1.1 Ghz

 

 

 

(Now I,m thinkin its the PC, not MCAM)

[wildcat99]

After a new installation of Solidworks2004, I occasionally get this same error when exiting SW but never in Mastercam.

[Zero]

quote:

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96 MB RAM

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Slap some more ram in that box dude!! It might not be the cause of this problem... but I'm positive that its causing you problems all around. You have 55mb of that ram set aside for MC (which IMO is way below minimum for what MC should be running on) which leaves only 40mb for the rest of the system. Windows can use that just idling. You gotta be to not go get another 256mb of ram (at least) for the price it costs these days. Hell, if my boss wouldnt swing it, I'd freakin buy it myself and put it in. Running a system on that much RAM IMO is like doing this :

 

I'd go ask the big man for some more RAM and when he says "no" I'd give him one of these :

 

and go get a stick or 2 myself...

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

ROFL!!!!

 

Those graemelins are hilarious and just what the doctor ordered. Entirely in order for this situation. I just got quoted 1GB of RAM for a couple hundred bucks. Pocket change for the performance gains. Dollar for dollar RAM and Video Memory are the best investment.

 

JM2C

 

Oh, and CNCGUY, get in a few for me too if he won't spring for the memory.

 

[CNCGUY]

Thats kind of what I was thinking (need more RAM). This is the first time I ever checked the specs on this machine. I will pass the on and see what I can get.

 

Thanks for the input.