if you set your clearance to 2.25 say shut off your retract set your feed plane to .2 INC your top of stock to 0.0 INC and you should be all set.

When trying to make a toolpath from the art program i get this error right after it asks the nc file name.not sure what is causing it. any help would be greatful.

thanks,

Scott

Chris 1+++ with the DNC max we also use it and have the full editor with the G Code verify. Save my butt a few times.

Thanks for all the info.

Scott - It was my "Disable Hardware Accel."

Mick - look at you "Disable Hardware" in system config - Screen and its towards the upper left corner.

Crashed when I was trying 1 op crashed when I tried all 15 ops. Crashed with a solid crashed without a solid. It will crash here it will crash there it will crash any where.

Sorry about that Dr Suess got stuck in my head.

Thanks for the input though

John,

It still Crashed. I even tried alittle larger and poof!!! screen is gone.

Does anyone know if microsoft added a patch or update that might be causing MC to crash in verify.

It just started to happen this week. I'm running vista 64 bit

AMD 9750 quad core

ATI Radeon HD 3200

Thanks in Advance

Scott

OK Pete what do think this could be a sim gone bad?

OK Pete what do think this could be a sim gone bad?

Tried running the hasp X and it doesn't even know the sim is in my PC. Since CNC is closed today I'll have to be patient and bug the hell out of them tommorow.

I did try reloading the hasp drivers. It is just one sim that isn't working. Our Mill 3 works fine. Looks like we'll be getting a new sim on order.

MEA must be part of MU3. Just started after loading MU3.

Thanks I'll re-install a different bootleg copy and try that.

I tried are other hasp and it works fine. Must be a bad hasp?

My purple USB Hasp is flashing when I put it into any of the USB drives on any PC that has mastercam. Just started anyone know what it might be?

Thanks in advance

Thanks to all for the info.

Especially to Pink for the warm butter knife tooling. I'm having problems getting the butter knife to stay in my collet holder though.

Chris -Glad to see you and the monkey back

any one cut or cutting this material? What kind of tooling are you using and speeds and feeds. Do you use coolant?

Thanks in advance for any help from the best forum on the web.

You can use the rotary sub in the contour toolpath to do this. just need to know dia of ring fairly easy to do.

Chris,

Just got my PC back on line and read this. Glad to here that your recovering from what could have been far worse. Best wishes on a full and healthy recover I'll be watching to read how things are going.

I use both the Cimco editor and DNC-Max with my Okuma. (Which has DNC B option)and run molds that take 138 hrs from start to finish and have never had a problem with losing code.

Well worth the price since you can back plot your G code in the Cimco editor and see any post errors that might not be seen in mastercam verify.

If you are running a Hasp 3 then you'll have problems you need to have a Hasp 4. You can go and run the Test Hasp from mastercam website to see if you have a Hasp 3 or Hasp 4

The STOP function wasn't put in until X so you have to unplug your PC to get it to stop spinning.

This is a bug or a beatle anyway here is the log for it cnc0002792.

John, Good talking with you yesterday. Brett wasn't at the booth when you stopped but did wanted to meet the "Infamous" post xxxxe himself. we filled him in so your OK.

No Pete's at the show today and Thhursday. The rookies only get one day at the show we have to watch over the cookie jar.

Stop By and say "Hi" where located in building 5 booth 5245

Beej,

You can go into the machine def and open the "Edit General Machine Parameters" then open the "Coolant Commands" tab and check the "support coolant using coolant value in post processor" this should fix your problem with the coolant.