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Hard to say... My experience with MCX so far is that many small variable has an affect... When I was using WinXP I once changed my skin-colour in windows, because I found the standard too boring... Everything was cool, but after a while it caused all menues and scrool bars to work very slowly and icons was flashing when I pressed them... I wasn't aware of the connection between these two things, so it took my dealer a while to fix that problem..

So I will say, nothing is too small to be considered a cause of problem...

As gcodes write, try to check your drivers to the graphic card... It's not always the newest which are the best... I have had problems with that before as well...

I'm now running a GTX460 1GB, Windows 7 64bit, 8GB RAM

I'm running the same config with a Intel Core i7 Processor 870 processor without any problems...

We are 2 guys programming here... We program all simple parts in Mazatrol, so it's only the more advance jobs we make in Mastercam... But I usually devide the jobs, the other programmer get all he can take and I take the rest... We always follow the whole process through, programming, setup, test run together with operator and then the operator takes over and come back to us if there are problems and we make correction..

I have the opposite problem of most of you guys, since I would love to spend more time programming and less time on other things... But as production manager, quoting, planning, tool purchase etc. I usually got my hands more than full...

Not sure I understand your question correctly, but if you want to move different part of the part/drawing into different levels, then select what you want to move and right click on the "level" in the buttom of the screen and select move and choose which level you would like to move it to...

HTH...

Thanks for the info... I'll take a look on it when I'm back at work monday!

I have a quick little question for those of you who knows somehting about postprocessor editing...

To get the highest possible pressure when we drill with I/K we normally switch off the outside coolant, but I have to manually add a M9 always before the M51 (I/K code)

The part of the post looks like below... How do I change this to post out first M9 and on next line M51?

# Coolant M code selection

sm09 : "M9" #Coolant Off

sm08 : "M8" #Coolant Flood

sm08_1 : "M8" #Coolant Mist

sm08_2 : "M51" #Coolant Tool

If any has an idea it would be great!!

I can read it, but can't understand it....

Try without caps lock on next time....

Thanks for the info.... It was clearing the questions...

I'm just not so sure it's worth the cost

Maybe I'm just confused, but as far as I can see here it's for free...?!?!? My link

I don't have X5 yet, so can't see if it's working... I was trying the X4 version, but can't see it in SW even I tried what gcode wrote...

I made some more research and after what I could see, the point with Mastercam in Solid Works is that you actually can make some toolpath and then edit the 3D part in Solid Works and the toolpart are automaticly changing together with your changes of the shape...

Could be a nice thing, if you are a developer/constructor....

Thanks for info G!

I'm also mainly using the option of importing as a X_B or .stp file, but I was just wondering, since the Add on existed if there were any benefit by using it...

Hi!

I have installed the Solid Works Add on, but can't see any changes in Mastercam or Solid Words, such as a button or anything to activate it...

How do this stuff works, since I can't find any information regarding that, and is the function worth spending time on?

I have tried to look for a post in here regarding that, but couldn't find it, and when looking on Mastercams homepage regarding the topic, it's close to a "no-info" page: Link

Thanks!

Try using the tab key instead of the enter key

Also my favorit.... And if you hold the SHIFT key down at the same time you go backwards in stead of... Just if someone didn't knew....

I just tried on our other older computer with WinXP and all version of Mastercam from X to X4 is highlightning all... So it looks like a Windows7 thing!

Same "problem" here... Using Windows7 as well, but as far as I can remember back it has always been like that?!? For me it's a good thing, because it's often just the value you want to change, not if it's +/-....

there is no patch

Does anyone know if there will be a patch...? Most of our develope/construction is done in SW and I'm collecting good reason to upgrade to X5....

Thanks for the suggestions... I tried the driver which was suggested for Solid Works and it seems like the problem is solved...

Once again, thanks for the help!

Are the holes SUPPOSED to be there? Did you try analyze surface? I've seen surfaces come in on customer models with holes that are a result of some weird trimming during the import process. Usually untrim and retrim will fix it

I have made a single surface and just created a hole in it, and it's still a problem... I'll try to check with the other version of driver and see if it will make any difference...

Thanks for the help so far!

Could have been a solution, but when I got new computer I changed from XP 32 bit to Win7 64bit, and also downloaded the newest version of the driver for graphic card.... So it's not about that...

Hi!

I'm got a new computer and experience some problems with surfaces... When I import or create a model with surfaces and there are some holes in the surface, then as soon as I place the cursor over this surface to select it, it's like it's changing to slow motion and takes much longer time to select the surface... And when I work with parts with alot of holes, it's a nightmare... All surfaces without holes doesn't have any problems... As far as I can see all my settings are the same on old computer, so I wonder what it can be...

I'm still running X4 MU3 and I've got a Intel i5 4x3.33GHz, 4GB RAM and a NVIDIA Quadro FX 570...

Any ideas what can be the reason?

Thanks in advance for any help!

We mainly stick with Mazak, so we got following:

Milling:

Mazak PFH5800

Mazak VTC 20B

Mazak VTC30C

Mazak VTC300C II

2xMazak Nexus 510C

AXA VPC40U

Turning:

Mazak Integrex 200SY

Mazak Integrex 400 IIIS

Mazak SQT200M

Mazak SQT250MS

Mazak QT6

+ div. manual machines...

I know.. But the company won't pay for maintenance releases.. ...

And as long as I can't proof that it's cause by that, they don't want to "throw" money after it..

Hi!

I got a pretty annoying problem with my MC.. I'm running X4 MR0 (XP 32bit), and I sometimes experience, when I made a lot of operations, suddenly, not matter which operation I try to open, it comes up with "Surface High Speed Toolpath" window, even though that I don't use that type of machining, and all windows are just empty and so I can't change anything, which means my program now is useless...

I have tried this a couples of time recently, and restart doesn't help!!

Anybody with experience with this type of bug or?

Pretty impressive I must say...

What is the machining time for the part?

I guess dual processor.. When I check the Device Manager in the control panel it tells me that I have 2 pcs. Intel® Xeon CPU 3.00GHz

Any difference?