Toolpath manager unresponsive

[Jbrown17]

I have a file that the tool path manager seems to be stuck. When i click on any part of that window I get a warning ding from the computer. I've tried re-opening, rebooting and re-opening, with the same result. I had just exported my toolpaths to a similar part file just before this started happening. Would anyone have any idea whats going on here?

I just opened another file and it is doing the same thing.

[DUM1]

IF YOU ARE IN MASTERCAM DESIGN TOOL PATH MANAGER WILL NOT WORK

 

[Jbrown17]

After checking the obvious things like; having the correct machine selected, making sure I was not in Design ( as mentioned above), there was still no response from the toolpath manager window.

I called CNCsoftware tech support and they fixed me up in about 3 minutes.  I had to go find the my mcam 2018 folder and rename it. This resets the defaults. It worked fine after that. The down side was I had to re-customize my screen setup.

[David Colin]

I had a similar issue recently. It was workspace file (in myMcam/config) which was corrupted. Of course, rename or delete it will force Mastercam to recreate a new default at launch but you will loose all customizations as you said.

Workspace file is XML style so you can edit it with a text editor. I had a saved workspace file but it wasn't up-to-date.However I compared both files and I just copied <Docking...> XML section values from saved file toward corrupted file and my toolpath manager got back to life.

I guess if you don't have a saved workspace file you can try it with a default one too.