Glenn? You are dead on man thank you very much. It solved the problem

Thank you... the only change that took place on the station is the installation of edrawing viewer. I just removed it and restored my station to last weekend and all is good... what a scare eh? Thank you though greatly appreciated

Good morning guys mastercam just stopped working and every time I try to launch it is gives me an error saying « failed to initialize COM! » however if I turn on the internet it does work! What happened? What changed? Please help. thanks

Hey Guys i got some .sldprt files from a customer and he is telling me I can pick the holes informations from his solid he doesn’t wanna print out PDF files. Is there a way for mastercam or a converter or whatever it is to be able to click on the holes of his solid and be able to tell if it’s 1/4-20 tap or 6-32 tap and so on? I hope am making sense. Can mastercam do this? Thx

Hey Thad thx for the tip but I tried that and brought it in as surfaces... same thing the Colors were reset to the mastercam default. Thx though

thanks man... at least I know its not something weird going on only on my station.

I don't have a STEP for this file... I get some in IPT and some STEP and some both. sorry. what color was the part when u opened at ur station?

hi Pete... thanks for the help bro. mastercam technical support emailed me and I sent them a sample file to see if they can figure it out. that's the file... if you wanna take a look at it, now this should be blue all of it except for the inside of the holes. sample-file.ipt thanks guys

yep... am not even sure what that option is for. checked or unchecked... result remained the same

Hey man customer provides only .IPT and .STEP. in both cases when I open the files on mastercam; Mastercam resets the colors of the solids to its standard setting color default. been playing with the configuration since yesterday trying to stop it from doing so but I failed so far. thx man.

this is horrible news man... I can't afford to buy a second software it took me years to save for the mastercam license I bought am I contractor programmer. Customer is big manufacturer; he doesn't accommodate for you, he replaces you. anyhow man thanks for the help and I hope I find a fix for this.

hey man. I am using MC2019. I don't have inventor but I had to install inventor View 2019 for the mastercam to be able to open the .IPT files. When I open the .IPT files in Mastercam however, the solid color changes into the default mastercam solid color setting and it doesn't preserve the original color from inventor. I don't think I can send out some files though. I tested a file in FUSION just to see if I get the colors or not but had to delete the file right away cause its on the cloud and that was a no no. so sharing a file ..? i'll see what I can do. however I don't think there is a solution as I contacted mastercam about it since yesterday and am still hanging without answer other than to try to save it under different setting in inventor. But I don't have inventor, I receive files made in inventor and customer doesn't accommodate to every shop he gives work. thx man.

nop… tried that. doesn't do nothing

Good afternoon guys This could be a very simple fix that am not aware of or ….! I got a client who uses inventor to design and he had sent me a table explaining what each solid face color means. Like RED face, means leave 0.01 for example, Green means machined finish etc. however all .IPT files mastercam opens are GRAY. the colors are lost in the translation. Help? is there a fix to this or something I can do to see original colors? thanks guys

thanks...