stopping operation

[LucasGC]

Is there a better way to do this than opening threading manager and hitting the stop button?

Sometimes if I have an operation that's I made the tol too small on or something I'll try to stop it but it doesn't always stop it and I feel like sometimes takes longer than it would have to let it keep going. I can't save it while it's processing so it's kind of like crashing mcam because i have to end task from the task manager.

 

any way to shut it down?

thanks

[Mark VIII]

Task manager,,,end process

[Colin Gilchrist]

Lucas,

It really depends on which type of Operation you are generating. The Surface High-Speed and Opti-rough paths are all Multi-threaded. Meaning that more than one Operation can generate at a time, up to the number of physical cores your processor has. Go to the View ribbon and turn on the Multi-Threading Manager. This will let you see the Ops that are generating. Also, before you start generating the Ops, you can set the Max # of threads to generate simultaneously. This is a manual setting, and must be set for each session of Mastercam.

The Multi-threading Manager also has Pause and Stop buttons that will let you stop a Toolpath that is in the middle of generating.

For the Old School Ops, these weren't Multi-threaded, until 2019. (I think. Not sure if all of the old school Ops are Multi-threaded yet...)

[Leon82]

Stock models never stop and I just close mastercam in the task manager.

The machining ops usually stop when I hit the button

[crazy^millman]

12 hours ago, Leon82 said:

Stock models never stop and I just close mastercam in the task manager.

The machining ops usually stop when I hit the button

Yes stock models never stop. Best to save the file where it is and kill the session and start over.