Well now I installed the new graphic card on my system, my system data is now:

MS XP Pro SP3

Dell Precision T5400

Intel Xeon CPU

E5410 @ 2.33GHz

3.25GB ram

Nvidia Quadro FX1800, 768mb ram

It didn't help, the system still crashes But the graphic on the screen is much more fluid now, that's nice

Next step is to install win7 64bit on the system and 8gb ram, dont know if it have any effect, but I will give it a shot.

Please do.

 

When I was having so many issues with X2, and then X4, I was told several times that our video card was inadequate and most likely to be causing my problems. We purchased the Quadro FX1500 thinking that it would solve allot of the issues but guess what. It turned out that the video card didnt solve anything. It did speed some graphics up and made some things in mastercam and solidworks more enjoyable.. (grin). It turned out that it wasnt the magic that I was hoping for.

I will try to install the graphic card on the MS XP system first, so that I can confirm if it has any effect at all, I realy hope it do, I have had 20 or so crashes today

I have purchased a NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 today, when i recive it I will write a comment about how it behaves.

I have also purchased windows 7 64bit and 8GB ram, I hope that mastercam will be able to use a little more ram then.

Well it is not the newest box's anymore but the system info is:

1.

MS XP Pro SP3

Dell Precision T5400

Intel Xeon CPU

E5410 @ 2.33GHz

3.25GB ram

Geforce 8600GTS

2.

MS XP Pro SP3

Intel Core 2 CPU

6700 @ 2.66GHz

3.12GB ram

Geforce 8800GTS

3.

MS XP Pro SP3

Pentium 4 CPU @ 2.8GHz

3.12GB ram

Geforce 6200

The only thing that mastercam support recommends is the geforce graphic cards, the don't recommend any special geforce graphic card.

What would you recommend as a minimum graphic card?

When I transform toolpaths it offen occurs that mastercam crashes.

When I use mastercam I press ALT+t so that I can see my toolpaths, I also press the icon "Show only selected toolpath" (I think that is the name) in the operations panel. If i start mastercam and don't press ALT+t and "show only selected toolpath" then I will be able to transform without mastercam crashing

We have three mastercam stations and the problem is the same on all stations and I belive (as far as I remember) that I have had the problem in mastercam X3, X4 and X5. I have talked with the danish support team, they have never heard about the problem before...

Have anyone had the same problem? I'm soon going nuts

Now I have tried the new file (inch), this gave me another time, our main system

Asus P5D MB

4GB ram

Intel core 2 duo 6700 2.66Ghz

8800GTS video card

Mastercam X2 MR1 sp1

Did the calculations in 6min 30sek, quite nice actually

Our second pc system

Dell Dimension 5000

1GB ram

P4 2.8Ghz

Mastercam X2 sp1

Did the calculations in 13min 20sek

We plan to by a Haas SL30 CNC lathe in the near future, do any one know anything about these machines? Does it perform well, does I have any issues I should know about?

Yes my time seems to be a bit to fast, I have just received a mail whit the file (inch) i'll try that instead, tomorrow

I found the file im the metric version, i used a total tolerance of 0.00254mm(.0001") on all three operations, time: 4min 11sek

System

Asus P5D MB

4GB ram

Intel core 2 duo 6700 2.66Ghz

8800GTS videocard

Mastercam X2 MR1 sp1

I quite agree with you bogusmill, I realy hope MC will go multi threaded in X3, that must give at kick in performance, just think, to go from a single core to quad core, kabooom....

Could anyone try to mail me the test file HST-CORE-HORIZONTAL-RASTER.MCX, I would realy like to try it on my system, to find out if my system is as bad as i suspect it to be my mcx disk 2 has an error

mail: [email protected]

What do you mean by after testing you was able to cut 65%, after testing different hardware or setting up the system?

I started this topic: the other day, Running mastercam X2 on a core 2 duo processor do you think that there would be any adavntage by using a quad core processor?

We bought a new pc not long a go, it's a intel core 2 duo running at 2.66ghz, 4gb ram, asus p5 mb, nvidia geforce 8800gts if i remember correct.

Our old pc a dell p4 3.0ghz was getting a littel slow, so we went for the new one, but it isn't as fast as i hoped for, when i open the windows task manager - performance, i can see that the to processor cores is running at a max of 50%, dosen't mastercam X2 mr1 not support 2 processors or could i have a problem with my configuration?