Called the dealer and you have to open mastercam x6 first and then find your file, it opens right up with all tool paths and geometry. Kinda used to just locating the file in a folder then opening quickly.

Installed X6 on a 64 bit windows system today without a hitch. Played around a bit with some files and then saved with no issues. Went to reopen same file and all tool paths and geometry went missing. It shows a quick view icon of my part on the desktop, file size seems large like on any of my parts, solids are not shut off, all levels on, still no part or tool paths. Any one else with same problem and or fix? I run X5 mu1 all day.

I spoke with customer support with my reseller and we came to the conclusion that the apply button was causing the x5 mu1 crashes in windows xp. At first they couldn't duplicate the problem cause no one there uses apply. We tried fresh installs thinking it might have been a config problem, but the crashes were occuring with all of mcams defaults as well. Once you copy a toolpath and start changing settings in the toolpath tree if you hit the blue apply button then proceed to the roughing icon it would crash. The work around is don't hit the apply button. In windows 7 the roughing icon would not activate until you skip ahead then come back. In conclusion they will alert cnc software of the bug, but for now they said try not to hit the apply button. I'm used to using it cause in earlier releases the settings would not stick until you hit apply. If anyone runs into this problem I suggest upgrading to windows 7.

The crash happens on our windows xp comp after copying a mill roughing toolpath and then simply clicking down thru the toolpath tree. When I do the same thing on our windows7 comp the toolpath tree menus will not activate once u click them, the work around in windows 7 is to click to the next item in the tree and then come back. On both systems xp and windows 7 the problem seems like its at the same spot but both handle them different, xp will crash, and 7 will get temporarily stuck. I will call my reseller and get info on this on where to send this file and QC.

I forgot to mention that when we copy the pocket tool path we are also changing it to remachining and that causes a crash only when we work our way down to the roughing options in the toolpath tree. On our windows 7 system every thing is okay other then the roughing icon wont work unless you skip it and jump back to it. I tried saving Like Murlin suggested but didn't work.

The problem happens more often when you copy a pocket tool path below the original and start changing options in the tool path tree. We change settings in tool path type, then move ahead and change our tool, cut parameters works, after that when we click on roughing options x5 mu1 will stall and give us an unhandled exemption error and crash. This happens on our windows xp machine. I test the same problem on our windows 7 and while moving thru the options on the tool path tree once you get to the rough options the tree will not change. You have to skip over it and move on to entry motion and then come back to rough options for it to work. in windows xp it will just crash. Is anyone else having this problem?

Called my retailer and they said it was a problem in the nci and cnc software is on top of it. said something like it was a tier 1 level fix and it could be released in a stand alone update.

Sorry it took a while to repost. Problem was that u cant do any edits to machine if you open machine sim as a regular application, you have to open mcamx5 first and run it thru that. sorry for the confusion but everything works well now.

Only the edit machine tab is greyed out. Thanks for your guys interest and help.

Help with this one. Newbie to the whole machine simulation, thought I would mess around with mach sim and I cant even get the edit button to ungray itself to create a new machine. Opened up well and the background looks nice, saved a new machine and put in the same folder with the same name like the instructions told me so. Still can't do diddly squat. Please tell me I'm a tard and I'm doing something wrong. Thanks.......

Checked both posts from x4 and x5 and there completely identical, except from the top version numbers. All tool forced retracts are check marked for 30 minute intervals. Still nothing in G-code.

Sorry JPARIS, but your posted image or reply didn't show up on in the thread, I'm working on the post, somethings screwie.

HAS ANYONE HAD PROBLEMS WITH SURFACE HIGH SPEED FORCE RETRACT NOT WORKING SINCE THE X5 UPGRADE. IF SO, HAS ANYONE FIXED IT.

When we move our wcs position off the mastercam origin we obviously get problems in our gcode if the programmer does not set his home position options to zero on each axis. I set the machine defaults to automatically go to zero but u would have to remember to hit the machine tab every time on home position. Is there any way in post or origin settings to eliminate this problem. We are using x4.

yeah it was the damn sweep angle set to 0. I have all my toolpath defaulted to certain settings i haven't changed in many years, we merged companies and i'm working with a second programmer with different defaults and posts.