I downloaded 2-3 weeks ago and last Thursday I got the documentation and cd's in the mail from my VAR. Good to go now. lynnz

mross, tried all of your suggestions. Nothing changed. I'm using a Nvidia Quadro FX-3400 card. spec, I'm not sure I understand what/where groups you are referring to. lynnz

Has anyone figured this out yet? We have this problem with 3 different PC's. All have different graphics cards, but all are Nvidia cards. 1 of the PC's is 64 bit, the others are 32 bit. This was not a problem until X2 was installed. X1 MR2 did not do this. lynnz

I agree with Greg. Lots of yellow dust. A vacuum is a must. lynnz

Problem solved. I hadn't moved the X+ chook over yet. Did that and error is gone. Thanks again. lynnz

Thanks for the help. I'll give that a try. I forgot to say, but I did a side by side install of X2 along MR2. lynnz

When starting up X2, an error report pops up about reading toolbar definitions. I'm not sure if this has been covered yet or not. I can close out the error dialog box and go on OK. But what is out of whack to cause it to pop up on startup?? Error (L692;C:mcamx2configmastercam.mtb);SPECIFIED command not found. Error L693 " " Error L694 " " Error L695 " " finished reading toolbar definitions... I'm running XP Pro x64. Didn't have any problems like this with X or mr2. Thanks lynnz

If you have Solidworks and have upgraded to 2007, it installed Net 2.0 before it would let you install the Solidworks. So anyone that has SW 2007 shouldn't have to worry about installing Net 2.0 for Mastercam X2. lynnz

Never used powermill, but we've used Mastercam since 1995 with good results. About 90% of our work is 3D surfacing type work producing foundry patterns and coreboxes. Mastercam carries the mail for us. lynnz

We have gotten that error also. But it only happens when we hit the plus button when the operations parameters are completed. If I hit the check mark instead of the plus button, no error message comes up. lynnz

total tolerance in filtering has a big effect on your finish in most all surfacing toolpaths. The ratio should be set to 2:1 and on a finish pass, I have good luck with total tolerance set to .001" or smaller. lynnz

No crashes here for a long time. Actually can't remember last time. Doing 3D moldwork 90% of the time including the new highspeed toolpaths. lynnz

"mine changed to a green color after last update." Maybe you installed the environmentally friendly version of X?? lynnz

Its been a great success since startup 6 yrs ago. Many thanks to people behind Emastercam as well as all the contributors to the forums!! lynnz

Good luck with the new venture, Bullines. We sure have appreciated all the help you've dished out over the years. Big thanks. lynnz

the 2:1 filter setting is what I use with good results. I think it is the recommended setting. Try that and see if that helps. lynnz

Thanks Murlin. I've reported this to my VAR. Hopefully he'll send it to QC. lynnz

In using the new toolpath for Area Clearance, in the parameters for transition, there are 2 choices for feed rates. You can choose plunge or feed rate for either ramping in or helixing into the part. My problem is the default is plunge. When I change this setting to feed rate, I can hit the apply button and the green check to get out of the parameters. When I go back into the parameters, it is still set at plunge. It appears it has the settings for a choice, but will only let you use the plunge choice. My work around for this was to change my plunge rate to a rate close to my feed rate. Just wondering if others were seeing this happen?? lynnz

Yesterday I ran a surface rough pocket operation followed with a restmill op. In the middle of the restmill program there was "F0." that showed up as a plunge rate. It only happened once within the program. Its happened once or twice before since we've been using X and this is the 1st time since MR1. I sent it to my var. Glad it didn't happen on a program that ran lights out. lynnz

xmisu, When I tried it, I had delete surfaces option checked. So when it finished processing, it created no solid and also deleted the surfaces. Which is no big deal in this case as I had just imported it from igs. lynnz

I tried it in MR1 with an igs file. All surfaces disappeared when I tried to make solid from surfaces. On SP1, I created the solid model I used to make this tool with the same igs model I tried today. That was 6 weeks or so ago. So I guess there is a problem. lynnz

Bullines, that was it. Works perfectly now. Thanks lynnz

Bullines, I tried running the script above, but get the following error message: Microsoft VBScript compilation error Expected end of statement IActiveScriptSite:;OnScriptError() Line: Set objLine=Nothing Set objPoint=Nothing What did I do wrong? Did I get something copied wrong? I ran it on a file that had a bunch of entitities that I could separate a chain from the wireframe. Running X MR1 Thanks lynnz

We experienced this on occaision when we ran V9, we're on X now. We had the problem mainly running surface contour toolpaths. Try running the chook tpcfg (toolpath config) and uncheck the fzt option. This may take a bit longer to process the toolpath, but should eliminate the memory errors. This may work only if you're programming surface toolpaths. Just remember to switch it back when done, because it is faster and more efficient on most jobs to have fzt turned on. Unless you get the errors. hope it helps lynnz

Thad, It ran fine on my machine. I did a single surface as well as several. My model was all surfaces, no solid present, although I have the solids addon in my MasterCam Level 3 MR1. All in all this chook is a cool tool. lynnz