Hey Jim, This happened to one of my customers on quite a few occasions it seemd though that he did not undo the dimension but did delete an entity tied to the dimension and he had many hours and many levels into this job and lost it all. Did he have backup on? Yes but you do not know that the file is corrupt until you close out and try to bring the file back. by this time he had all 10 of his backup files corrupt too????? Pete R is trying to save the file for us.

If your part is a solid you can analyze the volume where when a density is added will calculate the mass (weight) Here is the output of the dimensions you stated with a density of .002 Current Mastercam File (MCX) Name = CALEDONIAN 18:53:43 Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Volume = 2269.800692 Density = 0.002000 Mass = 4.539601 Center of Gravity = -0.000000, 0.000000, -1.250000 Cheers Karl

Hi Liz, I know we spent some time going through all your new tool creations,How draw the Tools and set them up and also your block drill creations and how to define them and then how to use them and then your post fixes. Are there more questions or things we need to cover????? Please let me know if there is. regards Her Mastercam Supplier

Not Working in MR2 ??????

lololol I now know how many of you are living a home alone with no friends , relatives nor neighbours. I bet youve all got UPS supplies just to get that extra hour if you have a power cut. Karl.

Blackcombe must about 21/2 - 3 hrs away Must be a SKi or Board guy

Theres Approx 5- 10 New CNC Machines going into companies each week here in Alberta if thats anything to go by. cheers Karl

Hey Lloyd try here: C:Program FilesAladdinHASP LM Hope this helps Karl

Thanks Lloyd

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Hi Ken, I would like some kind of Vault system where you "check out" your file. When a file is in use only a "Read Only" copy can be opened while that file is in use. Other users would recieve an email notice that the file has been changed when saved by that user. Also a utility to see who has the file open. (similar to the nethasp) and an automatic note system that would track what user had opened and changed the file, this file is encripted so that it can not be modified so would be a true tracability notice board. You would also need a user manager system that would give rights to certain users to modify the file and lock out others. Files could then also be put on an approval list which would lock posting of the file until it had been approved by a senior programmer. Expand the File properties to tag it to a customer, project, machine, DWG#, REV #, PO # etc. Then include a search by any of the file properties listed. Also make it that a file had to include at least a DWG # to be able to save the file on the approval list, other wise place in a file pending directory. Just a few ideas hope this helps. Regards Karl

The 3 Files are the dll, the txt and the .scr file you also need to set your envirometal variables: CGTECH_INSTALL : C:CGTECH (OR install Directory) LSHOST : "Your PC Name that matches License" Once you have set these then run the Chook. Regards Karl

Just an Update from Calgary AB - We Just Bought a HP ZD8000 with the P3.6 using 2 Gig Ram and the ATI Radeon X600 w/256 MB and Im using 9 and X and This card seems to be working great. Was using the Dell M60 before this so far seems to be fast and smoother. Karl

Hi Guys, I have a customer using this control and was also getting the wild arc moves using mphurco. I took mpmaster turned on the break arcs to quadrents amd with a few little changes it seems to be working great. Regards Karl

We have Posts For the XNC and the RT480,- They also support the Gang Tool Changes, ie three tool changes all together if you have multi heads. CapTech also have some good Biesse Posts too. If you send me a sample NC file that your running I can take a quick look to see if there are any glaringly obvious mistakes. Is your codes using incremental for your 3D work? Regards Karl