Our tolerances are in the attached file. The lines of code are in the other file. This problem, it seems, has got worse with every newer version of Mastercam. I don't know if something was mastakenly changed in the machine definition or somewhere else. It's driving us crazy. We have lost at least 6 to 8 days of work because of this problem. Thanks for the replies TOLERANCES.pdf CODE.pdf

Thanks for the input. We tried what you suggested and it did not work. Any other input would be greatly appreciated.

We've been going round and round with CNC Software and Haas's application department. Once we got in touch with the right people they have been very helpful, we just don't have a solution yet. So, while we are still working that angle we figured we'd post the issue here. We have 3 Haas VMC, super mill, VF1 & VF2SS. We have been getting alarm 304, "Invalid I, J or K in G02 or G03 radius at start must match radius at end of arc within 0.001 inches". We get the alarm on all 3 machines but it is more frequent on the VF1 (oldest machine). The programs we are running are for molds so it is all 3D machining and the programs are one and done. The run time on the programs can be anywhere from 4 hours to 40 hours, just depends upon the complexity of the geometry. We do not believe that it is an issue with our programs because after the alarm is thrown we can delete the section of the program that has already run and typically finish the program with out issue. On some of the longer programs we need to do this 2-3 times. Haas applications seemed to think it was some type of rounding/tolerance issue. CNC Software was able to recreate the alarm with our program and has been trying to make some adjustments to our post file. Does anyone else having any insight as to what might be going on? Is there some type of tolerance/rounding setting that we are not aware of that would accumulate until it reached the allowable limit on the machines? Thanks for your help, Tim

Has anyone had this error before? The explaination for the error is possible corrupted program. It is about a 12 hour program. It got through the first 4 hours and then threw the alarm. We removed the section of the program that had already run and then restarted. No error now. We are running the program off of an external zip drive on a VF1. Tim

We were able to bring the file in on a similar computer we have in house and we did not get the error. We did send the file to our distrubutor's tech department. We have not heard anything back. Tim

That's what we think as well but we can not find anything definative about it so we don't know how to fix it.

While trying to open a .stp file in X5 we are getting the following error "# of boundry points exceeds 32767". We have not been able to figure out what this is and it is not allowing us to open the file. Any ideas? Thanks, Tim

We were having gouging issues and our reseller told us to go into the control definition, under arc, arc center type and switch all 3 to delta start to center. Have not had any gouging since. Instead of R's outputs I,J,K's.

I am having problems chaining. I'm sure I'm beating a dead horse but I can't figure out how to select a single chain out of multiple ones. I have tried selecting the beginning and then selecting where I want it to end but that doesn't work right. I also tried using the shift key and selecting but that does absolutely nothing for me. Everything I have read on this forum on how to select a single chain has not worked for me. Why can't they just put a single/partial chain option in the general selection box? I have been trying to deal with this since I first got "X". They must not be listening to the users because there are quite a few people with this same complaint. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks' Chris

Mike - Old computer has already been dumped and set up in another department within the company. Anthony - We ran the diagnostics on the drive and it came back fine. I should start over by saying that we can send programs to the CNC, it just takes awhile. When we try to change some of the settings in the DNC software that is when we start running into problems. We currently have our settings at the following (which work): Parity Bit - Even Data Bits - 7 Stop Bits - 1 Flow Control - XON/XOFF Baud Rate - 115200 The following settings worked the fastest for us on the old computer but this is the setting that is causing the problem. We are able to get smaller programs out with this setting but the larger ones get anywhere from 40%-70% and the system crashes. Parity Bit - None Data Bits - 8 Stop Bits - 1 Flow Control - Xmodem Baud Rate - 115200

This is the error message that we are getting when the computer crashes: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: d1 BCP1: 0000000000000068 BCP2: 0000000000000002 BCP3: 0000000000000001 BCP4: FFFFFA6009DF4A34 OS Version: 6_0_6001 Service Pack: 1_0 Product: 256_1 We are not sure what it means.

We double checked the cables...everything appears to be good. We can send the programs, it is just taking 8-10 times longer than it has in the past.

We have recently purchased a new computer and have been running for 3 weeks with no major issues. In addition to running MasterCam on this computer we also send our programs to our 3 Haas CNC machines using DNC Software’s SE DNC via RS232 cables. We set up our DNC software with the same settings as the old computer and everything appeared to be working fine. Then this week something changed. It is now taking forever to send programs to one of the machines. 45 minutes to an hour for programs that used to take minutes. And, it is only happening on one of the machines. The other 2 are working fine. We tried to change some of the settings but each time we do that the program starts to load and then crashes the computer. We did get updated DNC software for the 64-bit machine. We are wondering if we need to update our driver for our USB connector. This particular RS 232 is connected to a USB adapter and then into a USB port on the computer. The other RS 232 cables plug into the serial ports. Thanks for your help.

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We recently installed Mold Plus (10.0 SP0). All we get for the standard tool bar is a compressed tool bar with the X in the upper left hand corner, no icons. We can not expand this tool bar. However, we can go in and create a custom tool bar with all the Mold Plus functions. Any thoughts? Thanks -- Tim

Thanks for all the feedback. This is what we needed to know. I was discussing some the comments made with my tool designer and we have realized what one of our issues maybe. We are running individual Mastercams on the workstations but, the data is being saved to a network server. So, depending on the type of HDs on the server that could be slowing us down. I am currently leaning towards the 10K drive, working off of that and when the project is completed saving all of the files to the server. I am reading a noticable increase from the 7200 HDs to the 10K HDs. Is there a similar difference from the 10K HDs to the 15K HDs?

Hi folks, We have spent quite a bit of time researching all the old posts for information on computer systems. Based on what we have read and some input from our IT folks we have come up with the following system: Dell Precision Workstation T7400-64bit - Quad Core Intel Xeon X5482, 3.20GHZ, 2X6M, 1600 - Vista - 1.5GB PCIe x16nVidia Quadro FX 5600 - 8GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD, 800MHz, ECC - 16X DVD+/-RW - C1 All SATA drives, Non-RAID, 1 drive total configuration - 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s, 7200 RPM Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache - Dell 24" UltraSharp 2408WFP Widescreen Monitor - Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic(D), Dolby Digital, WXP - Logitech Z-4 Speaker System There was an option on Dell's web-site to add a second processor. Is this something we should consider? We are not really computer folks and have some trouble running Mastercam on our current system and just want to make sure we don't have a repeat problem. We are using Mastercam to machine injection molds. So we are running 3D surfaces. We are getting into files that are 150-200megs+. We would appreciate any feedback. Thanks for the help. Tim

Thanks, I've tried everything I can think of but it just keeps selecting the surfaces instead of the curve. Chris

Thanks for the help. I had to use the # sign in the post and then it was forced to use "r". The control def. was already set to radius. One other question. When I have a chain around a surface and I'm trying to delete only a partial chain I can't select it. I only get a full chain or it selects the surface. Anyone have any hints so I don't have to keep deleting the surfaces to get at the individual chains.

Hello, I am new to the web site. What a great wealth of information here. The site has helped me numerous times in the short time since I have joined. I am trying to find out how to change the arc moves to an "r" instead of i,j,k. I have searched the site and have not found the exact way to change it. I am using mpmaster for mastercam x. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks