You can also hit the right mouse button inside the toolpath manager window and pick expand and collapse from the menu there.

Don *.tx# is a post created text buffer file extension. When you fmt a text buffer the : fs 1 0 1 80 I think its the second number being 1 instead of zero tells post it is an existing file to open.

Don In your fmt statement you do not have an output address so it defaults to var name Try: fmt "" 12 day or if you want: fmt "-" 12 day

Couple of things to try. First right click on desktop, properties, settings, advanced , troubleshoot, turn graphics acceleration down to 1 bar above none, ok. Second go to appearence, effects, turn off use the following transition effects, ok, ok. Hope this will help.

Cuba84 is correct. Go to settings configuration, screen. And make sure where it say's Group Colors, use entity is checked. If you set this the entities should no longer come in red. My way was just a work around.

Try screen, clear colors. If that doesn't help it may be grouping them as it comes in. To fix this go to all, group manager, now delete the merged group. This should show the original color now.

Go to Mastercam.com, support, downloads, X2, there is a sample file and Art library download there.

I'm too slow.

Make sure all the toolpaths have the same .nc name. You can do this by selecting all operations, right click in toolpath manager window, edit selected operations, change nc file name, this will change all nc file names to what you type in, try posting again.

You may be able to get it close by using the spacing, then you may want to xform, scale, check the xyz box, put in X scale factor(measure the length of the ruler and divide by the length to the last letter), this should stretch it out in the X direction to fit the numbers in the ruler.Just play with the scale factor to get the best fit. Hope this helps.

On the corners you are worried about chipping/breakage, you may want to do a (climb rough) back cut(leave about 1/32) of about 1/2 inch in length to relief the corner, then come in from the conventional direction for the cleanup pass. This way you don't get any pressure on that last bit that would splinter/break at the edge. With only having 10K spindle speeds you may want to try a 3 wing cutter, around 100-125 inches a minute, between 3/8 to 1/2 depth cuts. If it looks like it is burning the edge you'll need to raise the feed rate till it doesn't.

If for some reason Thad's suggestion doesn't work. You may want to try doing a system restore back to a time before he messed with anything to see if that fixes it.

Try right clicking on desktop, properties, appearence, set the color scheme to default blue. Hopefully that will take care of it.

when using mask on arc you are selecting a specified dia. arc search, it will only look for arcs of the size of the arc you pick to use as a search example. So if you have a drawing with 10 .25 dia. holes the process would go like this. Toolpaths, drill toolpaths, mask on arc, pick 1 of the arcs(it should turn yellow), now you have to use mouse to place a window around all the arcs on your drawing, once you click to set the window all arcs should turn yellow, now to start the search for .25 dia. arcs you need to hit the enter key, a box will appear in graphics window showing how many arcs of that size it found and plotted the toolpath to, hit the green check mark in the drill point selection box, the toolpath parameter box should pop up to let you pick tool and set parameters.

After you toggled it on did you go to toolpath manager and under properties go to file, under machine definition pick replace, pick the machine def that matches the control def you just toggled, this loads the newly changed control definition.

You will need to go into the toolpath manager under properties/tool settings/pick the material/pick edit/now set up the feed settings here. When you are done go out and pick the open the parameters page for the operation you want to change/pick edit the appropriate tool/now pick speed/feed calculation and you should see the change.

In MCAM X got to settings/configuration/screen/graphics support/there is a check box there for disable front buffer.

1. Have you tried right clicking on desktop, go to properties/settings/advanced/troubleshoot/ turn graphics acceleration down to 1 bar above none. Try this and if it doesn't help put it back like it was. 2. If 1 didn't work you can try going to settings/configurations/screen/switch to GDI instead of open GL. Restart and see if it helped, if not put back like it was. 3. What operating system are you running? There have been several issues with Quadro FX cards working in some Windows 2000 systems.

You may also want to check this. Go to start/all programs/mcam/nhaspX/ make sure hasp is checked and not nethasp.

Being a small shop this probably isn't the issue but just to be safe, do you have full administrative rights to that pc? If not you need to be signed in as administrator and reinstall.

You may also want to try turning off menu transition effects. From desktop right click/properties/appearance/effects/make sure transition effect checkbox is unchecked.

It should have popped up at the very end of the side by side install you did the first time. Were you able to get MR1 working again with the system restore.

Do a system restore to a previous day that has your MR1 like it was. Then do a stand alone install of MR2. Make sure to look in your c:/ drive after the restore and if you have a MCAM X MR2 folder delete it before you try to do the new install of MR2. I had to do this after updating one of our training computers and having trouble with it.

No problem. Glad I could help.

Don this is from the help menu in MCAM X. For some reason it is not supposed to work on lathe. Removing chips from a verified part Removing chips after a verification makes it easier to see just the part or the "chips", which are pieces of uncut material left from the machining simulation. This option is available in Mastercam Mill, Router, and Wire, but not in Mastercam Lathe, and is only available in TrueSolid mode with tool and holder simulation. Removing chips is especially helpful when verifying parts in Mastercam Wire. The following graphics show a Wire part before and after chip removal.