I just finished updating windows xp and now mastercam won't start up. The error message I'm getting says "The application has faileD to start because OPENGL32.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Please help. I did a search on my computer and found the opengl32.dll file but mastercam isn't finding it for some reason. tia

gcode, What you suggested worked. Thanks a million.

Thanks gcode, I'll give that a try next time.

I'm running an okada graphite milling machine with a fanuc control. Whenever the z rapids to the clearance plane, instead of going from point A to point B it splits the x and y axis into equal moves and then finishes the remainder of the longer side seperately. Heres an example of the code. G0G49G80G90 T1M6 G0G90G59X4.Y-2.S14000M3 G43H1Z2.M10 G05P10000 G0G90X4.Y-2. Z.1 G1Z-.25F100. X-4. Y2. G0Z.1 X4.Y-2. (here is where it moves to approximately X0. Y-2. and then to X4. Y-2.) G1Z-.5 X-4. Y2. G0Z2. G05P0 M30 % Anyone have any ideas. I'm pretty sure it's in the machine. The code looks fine to me. I ran a highspeed toolpath the other day using minimum retract and it gouged one the ears on my electrodes. I switched it to full retract and that worked but it took alot longer to run.

It use to take about 15 seconds. I shut everything down and ran a disk clean up and now it's back to the way it use to be. Thanks

Whenever I startup mastercam it takes approximately 30 seconds for it to come on. Is there anything I can do to fix this. It didn't use to be that way. Thanks in advance.

Thanks Nils, that worked like a charm.

Is there a way to create a spline or a line from a bunch of points by window selection. Theres 4206 points on this file and I need to create a spline to wire from. Is this possible?

Your welcome, just glad I was able to help someone else for a change.

The activate solid selection icon is on the general selection tool bar. There's a drop down arrow for chain, window, single etc. It's two places to the right of that. It's a blue box with a green check mark on it. Man I got to learn to type faster. Mine doesn't show up until I select the create curve on all edges function.

I had that same problem just a bit ago and finally realized that I had to activate solid selection before it would work.

never mind, I figured it out.

How can I copy my toolbar state from X4 to X3 and load it so that they are both the same?

Ok, thanks John. You da man.

I have a hasp that will only work with X3 that has a solids package on it. I'm running X4 on my computer. Can I install X3 as well and swap out the hasps to learn solids without it messing up X4? Can I have both hasps in the computer at the same time?

Thanks John for the help.

on my computer under documents and settings/administrator.TOOL/local settings/temp/mastercam/ there are a bunch of folders one is called 1000000176. In it are files called BNCI.BIN, editmachinetool.temp, 1ds1fd.tmp and 1ds1ff.tmp. There are 5gb worth of these files and then theres another folder with a folder called msohtml1 in it's a bunch of folders called wer23e5.dir00 etc. etc.. In each one of these are files called mastercam.exe.hdmp and mastercam.exe.mdmp. What are these files. Can I delete them. I did a disk defragmentation and the report said that it couldn't defrag them. Thanks.

Thanks John, that did the trick. You da man.

I want to have my clearance in my program before my first x,y move. Here's what code I'm getting, :G0G90G17G70G94G40 G99 T1M6 G0G90H1X-5.9049Y-3.156S2000M3 Z2.M8 G81Z-.2R0.W2.F1.5 Y-5.656W2. X-3.4049Y-6.906W2. And here's what I want, :G0G90G17G70G94G40 G99 T1M6 Z2.M8 G0G90H1X-5.9049Y-3.156S2000M3 G81Z-.2R0.W2.F1.5 Y-5.656W2. X-3.4049Y-6.906W2. Here's a section in my post, ":G99", e$ ptoolcomment comment$ pcan if stagetool >= zero, ":", *t$, "M6", e$ pindex if mi1$ > one, absinc$ = zero if nextdc$ = 7, pcan1, pbld, n$, *sgcode, *sgabsinc, pwcs, pfxout, pfyout, pfcout, pgear, strcantext, e$ else, pcan1, pbld, n$, *sgcode, *sgabsinc, pwcs, pfxout, pfyout, pfcout, *speed, *spindle, pgear, strcantext, e$ pbld, n$, pfzout, scoolant, next_tool$, e$ #"G43", *tlngno, absinc$ = sav_absinc pcom_movea toolchng = zero c_msng$ #Single tool subprogram call I'm pretty sure that the line/ pbld, n$, pfzout, scoolant, next_tool$, e$ is what I want to move, but I don't know where to move it to or how much of it to move. Please help, thanks.

Thanks for the response. I tried your suggestions and they helped tremendously. I only seen one move where it slowed down.

Im cutting electrodes on an okada using a waterline hst and whenevery it gets to a curl up or down move it slows to a crawl. What am I doing wrong?

pip, You were right. I looked at the post and the top of it states 4 axis only. Thanks for the response I appreciate it. Looks like I'm gonna have to contact my reseller.

I can get a program to post as long as it's just the A axis tilting but if I try to use the C axis rotating also it doesn't put in the code for C. I looked in my post and it has some stuff in it for C axis but how can I be sure this post won't output 5 axis?

I went to a 4 axis class and I'm writing some sample programs that look good when I backplot them. The problem is whenever I try to post a program written in the right construction plane I get errors when posting that read only single axis rotation is possible. Is this a post problem? We have two roders machines, one of them is just a 3 axis mill and the other one is a 5 axis. It's an rxp 800 ds. I only have a machine def and post for the 3 axis. My instuctor said I could just change my machine set up under the machine def to have both machines in it. I would rather copy the machine I have and rename it roders5axis and copy my post and rename it and then make the changes I need in them, the only problem is I can't figure out how to get the machine configuration set up properly. Every time I try it I get an error that says something about the axis not being set up properly. My instuctor said I should have xac set up under the table group and zy set up under the head. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?

It'll probably take me a while to figure out X+ cause I don't get that much free time to play with stuff like that. But I'm sure it'll be much better than the way I've been giving the edm guy's their info. The picture you posted above is really full of information, I may copy it and save it for future reference. Thanks again.