New workstation

Boxx APEXX-2-2401

Benchmark came in at 5:46.725

Big improvement for me.

Thank you Greg,

I will send this off the QC.

Are people using the latest greatest NVIDIA drivers for their Quadro cards, or are they using the ones suggested by the Solidworks website?

Is everyone using the driver suggested on the Solidworks website (http://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/videocardtesting.html)?

I have been getting this error (Unsupported model view matrix values) with X9, after having a session open for an hour or so.

I have a Quadro 2000D card.

It was suggested I update the video card driver to the most current.

Thank you for any input.

Another Update

3 min, 32 sec

X4 MU1

Dell precision 670

Dual Xeon 2.80 GHz

12.00 GB Ram

XP Pro 64 bit

Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI

Thank you John, that has done the trick.

Hello

I have a generic Okuma post that needs line numbers. This post has been working very well for a long time, but it doesn't output line numbers for manual entries.

I have searched the forum and found some old post on adding line numbers to manual entries, but when I try it I get errors.

I am not a very experienced post editor, but thought, if this is simple enough, I would tackle it.

I believe this is the spot I need to modify;

pcomment$ #Comment from manual entry (must call pcomment2 if booleans)

pcomment2

pcomment2 #Comment from manual entry

spaces$ = 0

scomm$ = ucase (scomm$)

if gcode$ = 1006, *n, scomm$, e$

else, "(", scomm$, ")", e$

spaces$ = 1

any suggestions would be appreciated. I have quite a few manual entries and hand editing them is getting time consuming.

Thank you

Thank you for all your help. This is a head/head setup. We will take a look at the post

Hello all,

When I use the 5 axis swarf function, the speed seems to be relative to the tip of the tool. I am sure that in most cases that is what I should want.

In this example, the top part of the cutter is going much faster than I would like. It is leaving a pretty rough finish. Is there anyway to make the speed more relevant to the center of my cut?

I have a similar issue here. This is something I see when I have two MasterCam session open at once.

Thanks gcode, that works as well.

Thank you Ron,

I was trying to use the swarf path from the advancted multiaxis option. I didn't see that option the first time I tried the swarf through the multiaxis drop down.

Thank you, this helps allot.

Hello,

I am trying to use 5 Axis Multi Surf path to cut the side of a block. I want to use a flat endmill, and cut below the block (to make sure it gets cleaned up). The 5 axis swarf keeps a flat endmill from going below no matter where I place the floor or check surface.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for any advise

Just switching to MU1 has taken me from 12 min, 34 sec. to 8 min, 53 sec.

Update

(13 min, 17 sec

X3

Dell precision 670

Xeon 2.80 GHz

3.00 GB Ram

XP Pro 32 bit

Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI)

We have added another 2.80 GHz processor, now my time is 12 min, 34 sec.

Solidworks works well. The part must be something that you could have made using the sheetmetal tools in Solidworks.

13 min, 17 sec

X3

Dell precision 670

Xeon 2.80 GHz

3.00 GB Ram

XP Pro 32 bit

Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI

Thanks again gcode.

Thank you for the advise.

Where would I change that setting?

Hello all,

When I regenerate a simple tool path (contour of a small chain) I see an image of what looks like an STL file of my stock appear, my stock is a solid on a level by itself. Then the tool path slowly regenerates , very slowly.

This seems to happen on all toolpaths, from surfacing paths to simple chains.

Is there a switch somewhere that is telling it to use an STL file when I regenerate?

Any advise is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks for the information guys. I will be sure to save my files when I see this.

Wes

Hello all,

I have the background of my operations manager set to a grey color. Sometimes the folder icons will turn white. It just happened, I was rearranging the operations. I have tried to regenerate, save, close and restart. nothing seems to change them back once it's done.

It doesn't seem to have any affect on anything.

I was just wondering what if anything MasterCam is trying to tell me.

Thanks

Eric, you beat me to it.

Hi all,

I have been reading the posts here for quite a while now, hoping that maybe I might find something to i can offer.

Maybe this will help.

I have seen where there have been views created from "planes by geometry". This will also give you associated geometry. This geometry will not show up when you do a "only display associative geometry" in the ops manager. One way to check for this would be to check for custom views.