Thanks for all your advice guys. You are right, it would be faster to run 2-d toolpath on this peice. The reason I use 3-d all the time is because most of my stuff will not produce in 2-d. I guess I get stuck in a rut. The other reason I like to run the surface paths is because it is les time sitting here at the pc. I actually run the company here and set the tools on the machine, parts on the machine, etc etc. So the less time i'm actually playing with the mouse the better. I just thought compared to other jobs i've run it takes way longer. On another topic, has anyone ran in to problems machining from solids only? I get a problem very often where mastercam totally ignores some of the surfaces of the solid, but, when I create surfaces from the same solid, and machine the surfaces ....... Problem goes away. ????? Bug?? Talk soon, Lee.

Hi Jay, I put the file called cadcam.zip in the mc9 files folder. Thanks for all your help. Please try regen on any of the operations and let me know how you make out. Thanks, Lee.

I would like to, could you please tell me how? Thanks, Lee.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Scott, There are no radii on the surfaces, I am letting the ball mill leave me one but mastercam is not wary of this. Thanks, Lee.

It doesn't hang up, but is very slow at the point mentioned above. It happens in regen and fresh paths. Thanks, Lee.

I'm using surfacing toolpaths. Sometimes with a straight cutter, sometimes a ballnose cutter. Thanks, Lee.

I'll see what I can find out.

Hey Trev, I am running separate toolpaths with different step downs. Not at the same time. Thanks, Lee.

The part is approximately 5 feet by three feet and all I am trying to do is pocket and finish approximately 90 holes that are about 2 1/2" diameter with a draft angle on the sides. The part is .75 thick and the holes go through. Thanks, Lee.

Anykind seems to give me greif. I have one toolpath with 0.1 stepdown and one with 0.02 stepdown, seems to be same hangup. Ram on system, 523,808 Kb Mcam settings 32767 6000 1000 100,000 100,000 Thanks in advance, Lee.

I am working on a part that seems to be taking way too long to get toolpath. I am running a 2600+ AMD Athlon, Asus A7V8X Motherboard, and a 32Meg Nvidia card. Mastercam seems to everything really well up until the staus bar says " Creating tool boundaries at **** certain depths, depending on the satrt depth. Any ideas???

I'm really hoping not to have to re-install the program, any other ideas?

No, the same hasn't changed. This is really frustrating. Thanks for your attempts, keep trying.

I tried deleting the config, no change.

i'm not sure? The only thing I can think of is the time change. Help! I really need this to work I'm in a bind.

Mastercam was working fine yesterday and today it won't fire up. I get an error as follows. Afx Rich Edit init failed! I checked my clock settings and still no change. Tried re-booting, still no change. Tried turning off all together and then back on, still no change. Also, the system sees my hasp, Thanks in anticipation. Lee. HELP!!!!!

Thats what I did, and thats where I'm at. Back to square one. Same error. Thanks, Lee.

The directory it's trying to install to is mcam8, I have my program installed in mcam81 and so I re-direct the patch to this directory. Is this ok? Or do I have to re-install everything to mcam8. The program was not running and so i'm confused, please help. The reason I was installing this in the first place is I'm just trying to stay current. Advice, Please, Thanks, lee.

V8.1.1 I hope this helps Thanks, Lee.

Hello Everyone, I just tried to install the latest patch, v8addons_full.exe. When I said yes to extract and overwrite I got an error message: Cannot create output file C:mcam81chookslayout.cnt Does anyone get the same message? Does anyone have an answer? Thanks, Lee

Thanks Mark, I had an idea it was a seperate parameters box. Thanks again, Lee. ------------------ L.K.White Premier Pattern Equipment Ltd Edmomton, AB.

I might be losing my mind here but did this function disappear? I searched high and low for this option and it can't be found, I think. I have a closed pocket and want to machine it with tapered walls, any ideas? Thanks in advance, Lee. ------------------ L.K.White Premier Pattern Equipment Ltd Edmomton, AB.

I agree that this is a windows problem. However I'm not sure how to change the settings in win2000, can anyone help here. I am running an AMD Athlon 650 with 512mb ram. Thanks in advance, Lee. ------------------ L.K.White Premier Pattern Equipment Ltd Edmomton, AB. [This message has been edited by chalkyw (edited 06-20-2001).]

The figure you would use is 0.998828125 to scale from 2.56 to 2.557 ------------------ L.K.White Premier Pattern Equipment Ltd Edmomton, AB.