Thanks, I will talk to my computer guy.

MCX4 with NVIDA Quadro FX 3800 I am trying to trim two lines from the top cplane. Simple! However, when I click on the first line my screen goes BLANK. If I rotate the graphics view I can see that my geometry is still there. When I go back to the top view by screen is blank. Has anyone else had this very annoying problem? Thanks, Mike

Hmmm. I didn't create a note but I did have a solid that was among the entities being translated... but I didn't create the solid. I merged it from another file.

Thanks Charles, I just hit the mouse button a couple of more times and it translated so I went on. It is a simple file so I'm sure it will be ok. I just was curious as to why m/c was doing that.

Can someone tell me why I get the message "Warning: entities do not intersect" when all I am doing is translating entities from one point to another. Thanks, Mike

Also, after importing your ops. and saving the file - click on the groups to bring up the groups manager and delete the group that was created when you imported your operations. I started doing this as a precaution after being informed that not doing so was the reason my ops. manager would sometimes get jumbled up. Mike

Pete, I looked at the report and it showed "external files" on the levels that showed an entity. Mike

I would like to add one note of caution. This is a great machine and I would hate to see anyone crash it. GET VERIFICATION SOFTWARE and run your program through it before putting it in the hands of the operator... unless you have one you trust explicitly. I use Vericut and it has saved my *&^% and the machine more than once. I would not leave home without it :-) Enjoy and Good Luck. Mike

I get left over entities even when I create geometry on a level and then delete it later. There is still 1 entity. I showed my reseller and he said, "hmmm". Not much help. I usually wait until I get 3 or 4 of these levels and then delete them all at once.

Has anyone else experienced this? I delete all entities on a level. I open my level manager and it shows that I have 1 entity on that level. I go back to see it and it is not there. I unblank "all" and look again. Thinking that maybe it's in the background color I change "all" entities to red and look again. STILL nothing shows up. So..... Again I unblank all entities. Then I imediately "delete" all entities. I go back to the level manager and the entity is gone. I know that I am not Houdini and didn't magically make it disappear but it's gone. Can anyone tell me what the heck is going on? Not a major problem.... just an annoyance. Thanks, Mike Elliott MCX3 MU1 Windows XP Nvidia Quadro FX 3800

OK. I got the ops manager to shrink by minimizing my window, grabbing the very edge of the manager and dragging it horizontally. I was finally able to grab it in such a way that it rexized and I coulud fit it to my screen...... but now I can't enter operatore in my offset box. Is this crazy or what? I guess I will just have to pick my poison.

HOLY COWPIE! This is unbelievable. I tried entering different numbers in my offset box about 4 or five times and my screen turned WHITE! Then I noticed that the reason was that my Operations Manager window was huge and was taking up the whole screen. I alt-o and it disappears and I can see my graphis in my work area. I alt-o and the Ops manager comes back on and takes up the whole screen again. I use two monitors so I drug the ops manager off to the other monitor. It was so big that I had to grab it by the corner opposite my other monitor and drag it in order to get it to move. I then grabbed a corner and reduced the Ops managers size to about 1/4 the screen. I tried to drag it back and the darn thing immediately blew up and took the whole screen again. I have had many problems but none like this. BTW - Now without having changed anything I can now enter operators in my offset box and it works!!!

I recently got a new computer. They reloaded mcx3mu1 on it and now when I click the offset icon and enter for example 3.75/2 I get 000050000000 to +1.0E38. I was able to do this on my old computer and get 1.875 as an answer. My operators don't seem to work in any of my other functions either. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have an idea how I can fix it? Thanks, Mike

I had a problem with importing operations. After importing an operation my ops manager would be ALL messed up. I discovered there was an issue with importing ops and having groups in your group manager. Now after importing anything I save the file, open my groups manager and delete any groups, and resave my file. I haven't had any problems since going to this procedure. Don't know if it will help you but give it a try. Mike

MCX3 MU1 Does anyone know if there is a way to set the default for the "break circles" function from 2 to 4. It would be handy if i could hit my icon and didn't have to change it. Thanks, Mike

I can think of a few more names for it. What was MC thinking?

I have never used Screen / Combine Views. What does it do? Mike

I am using mcx3. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to prevent the freakin insertion triangle from moving around unless I PERSONALLY move it? This thing drives me crazy. It would be a good addition if it didn't have a mind of its own but as it is I would just as soon not have it. Mike

I have the same problem with creating wireframe from surfaces. If you can bring in a .stp file you will have MUCH better luck creating a wireframe from a solid.

I am getting a new computer at work and it will have a quadro fx 3800 video card. Can anyone tell me how well this will work and whether or not I will have issues... And, what video card would you recommend. It's my understanding that nvidia is the card of choice. Thanks in advance, Mike

In v9 when I created a setup sheet it poped up almost immediately. Now in vx3 when I go to the op manager and right click to create a setup sheet it seems to take forever. Can anyone tell me if there is something I am doing wrong. Thanks, Mike

Thanks, that worked. So, how do we get the fix?

Just switched to X4. I am doing a simple contour with 2 lines selected. I want to do my depth cuts "by depth" instead of "by contour" so the em. will do one contour at one depth then the other contour at the same depth. Then go to the next depth and do each contour, etc... instead of doing all the depth cuts on one contour and then all the depth cuts at the other contour. When I select the "by depth" option mastercam IGNORES it and continues to cut by contour. It doesn't even ask me to regenerate the operation. I exit MC and reopen it and retry only to get the same result. Any ideas? I just started X4 but have already encountered numerous problems. Seems MC keeps taking a step back with each new version. One frustrated MC user!

Here is a picture of what I want to do. As you can see the side opposite the wall that is being cut is being hit by the block on the spindle (which we need to orientate our 90 degree head). I think that if the spindle were spun 180 degrees when it started its cut the head would clear. My question is how to get the head to start C180 degrees for where it is now being told to start by the post. Once this tool is ran I would like to go back to the original orientation. Hope this helps clarify.

Thanks.