Thad, That is the same problem I have. I will check the allocaiton settings and increase them as you sugested. Thanks for your reply, Keith

Thad, That is the same problem I have. I will check the allocaiton settings and increase them as yuo sugested. Thanks for your reply, Keith

Hello, Every time I try to use any surface toolpath Mastercam has it (Mastercam) will lock up or shut down and I'm back at my desk top. All of the other toolpaths that I have used so far seem to work fine... just can't get any surface toolpaths to work I sure can use a little help with this problem. Mastercam V9.1 with sp1 and sp2 installed Windows Nt 4.0 Plenty of RAM unsure of what video card is being used if that is needed I can get that information Monday Thank's to anyone who can help, Keith

Thanks to everyone who replied, It looks like I will contact our re-seller here in Georgia. MC was purchased from a Re-seller in Florida but this company closed up shop there and moved everything to north east Ga. I had some help from these guy's a few weeks ago with a post for a Bostomatic CNC we use mainley for electrodes. Thanks again, Keith

Hello, I started a new job a few weeks ago with this shop that has MC V-9 Loaded on there computer just as it came straight off the CD. I tried to use it for the first time last week with no luck at all. The only tool paths that seeme to work are just the simple 2-D. All the wireframe tool paths looks like they work but when backploting there seems to be a stock statement value being used even though I'm not using one. To make matters worse every time I try to use any surface tool path MC crashes. I'v been using MC since V-5 came out through V-8 so I understand why the patches are used and how to install them. My problem is that there are so many I'm not sure about witch patches I need and the correct order to install them in. This company has everything MC sells Mill with mold-plus and all options Wire Router Lathe Design The computer's operateing system is Windows NT I'm not sure about the video card or mother board if that would make any difference or not. Thanks in advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction. Keith

Hello, I would like to know if anyone in this forum has had a chance to pull out a few electrodes with Mold Plus? I spend about 60% of my time programing electrodes & the way I have to do it I spend 3/4 of my time just drawing the darn thing! First let me say that I work in a mold shop & when I start a new job the designers where I work will give me a mold split consisting of a core & cavity surface files complete with wire frame. The mold split are done with Pro-e. I get my surface file set up, centered & start programing & machining. When everything is done there are usaly some areas that I could not cut for one reason or another.This is where the whole job starts to be a big pain in the neck. IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE ELECTRODES!. I take the surface file i'm working with flip it upside down & use these surfaces to make my electrodes.I creat a rectangle where the trode will be & coppy the rectangle suffaces & some of the wire frame I need to another level & start triming the wire frame to the rectangle , use what surfaces I can & remake the rest. As you can see by the length of this post I'm having a huge problem creating some of these electrodes. The more complex the part the more complex the electrode.Programing the trode is not the problem. Just getting the darn thing drawn correctly is. I hope I didnt bore all of you to death with my problem, but if anyone out there uses Mold-Plus for electrodes please reply & let me know if you like it. Also are there anyone offering classes on Mold-Plus in the southeast U.S.A. that could train me in the use of the electroder maker part of Mold-Plus?(Atlanta area) Thanks for your time, dnkmartin

Hello, I have used Mastercam for the last 4 years now. I started with V-6 & it was a giant leap foward compared to the software I was using. That software was a dos based system that only had basic 2-d tool paths along with multi-surf for the more complex parts The company I work for builds molds. mostly compression & compression injection sometimes we get a injection mold but not verry often. I'v been in the trade for about 22 years & been programing cnc since 1983. I'v always used some kind of software to make my programs, never had to fat finger a program into a control. When version 7 came out I hated it ! ! It was totaly different from V-6 when it came to tool path's. I mean picking the surfaces or your 2-d wire frame was no problem but it was the simple stuf that gave me fits.Right click to choose a tool, pick my tool & man look at those feed rates ! change the feed- rates to what I want no problem.Oops I used the wrong tool number. Change the tool number to what I need & everything's fine right? WRONG!! Look at your feed rates they changed! after several days of fighting one problem after another I gave up so back to V-6 I go & that's where I stayed until this week. I just loaded Version 8 & I read through the book a little. It still looks like there is a lot of operator input to achive the results that is so easily made with version 6 but i'm sure that once I take the time to set my system config., Tool tables, & tolerences most of my problems with V-7 will not happen in Version-8 I know I will be a frequent visitor here & who knows one day I might crying about how different version-9 is from version-8 Ha Ha My best to everyone dnkmartin