I know this is an old thread. But this problem has been nagging me for years. Whenever I print to PDF in Mastercam, it always makes it "Raster" and not "Vector". I have Mastercam X9 and I use Adobe XI Pro for printing to PDF. 10 years ago in older versions of Mastercam it would produce a nice vector PDF but not any more. Customers send me great looking vector PDF CAD files all the time, But I can't do the same.

Any solutions?

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I appreciate the suggestions. The MAP dll is not the solution I was looking for. My part is way too complex. I need to bend the model as a whole with all features bending together.

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I am building an investment casting mold of a straight part. My customer has done many similar parts and knows that they always end up slightly curved, which then needs to be straightened. He wants me to build the mold with the part curved in the opposite direction.

There are features of this part that would make it difficult to just make a new model. Is there any way in Mastercam to take a model and introduce a specific curve to it?

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12 minutes ago, gcode said:

Is just one file doing this or is it common across all files

Its doing it on all my files.

16 hours ago, jlw™ said:

Refresh that op right before posting works for me.

That doesn't work for me. Thanks for the suggestion.

I am moving Mastercam X9 to a new computer. What a pain it has been.

I have most things back to normal. 

But now when I try and post just "one" operation in my toolpath list I get this error: “Partial NCI output file” It allows me to select yes or no. I have never gotten this before. How can I stop this prompt?

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the first place I'd look is anti virus software. make an exception for it to ignore the top level mastercam temporary files folder and sub folders.

I did exactly that and it seems to have fixed the problem.

THANKS!

are your working with surfaces or solids?

Surfaces

I recently started using X9, was using X5.

I am starting to get this error frequently  "Error Reading From Surface Machining Temporary File"

It has happen with Finish Parallel and Finish Flowline. I have to close Mastercam and restart to be able to create these toolpaths.

Anybody know what is causing this?

Thanks in advance. 

My origianal post was question about why I can't use NCI as the source in mirror. I thought maybe that there was a setting in the configuration that would allow me to use NCI. Now I realize that option was just removed for reasons that make no sense. I guess they figure that we the users are too stupid to understand the implications of mirroring just the NCI.

Now what really aggrevates me is that I mirrored a toolpath and of course it automatically switches the source from NCI to Geometry. Then I get an error message saying that Mirror from the Geometry Source has failed and it will switch to NCI as the source. Of course it then works. BUT WHY DON'T I GET TO CHOOSE?

Try using the geometry option.

I dont want to use the geometry option, I want to use the NCI option. It has it's benifits on certain toolpaths.

You really didnt answere my question.

I want to be able to Mirror a surfacing toolpath in X5. Why wont it allow me to mirror the NCI? I did this all the time in V9. This use to work great for surface finish parallel, when tool direction was not important.

Now the option to mirror the NCI is greyed out. Whats the deal?

This problem is really annoying and needs to be fixed ASAP!

Mastercam X5 MU1

Time to process: 50sec

Desktop: DELL T1600

CPU & speed: XEON E31270 3.4ghz

Operation System Win 7 64bit Pro

RAM & RAM speed: 8Gb RAMDDR3 1333MHz

2.5 Solid State Drive

Quadro 2000

Mastercam X5 MU1

Time to process: 50sec

Desktop: DELL T1600

CPU & speed: XEON E31270 3.4ghz

Operation System Win 7 64bit Pro

RAM & RAM speed: 8Gb RAMDDR3 1333MHz

2.5 Solid State Drive

Quadro 2000

Help - Zip2Go Utility can be a useful tool here...

 

Start with an empty file, create a Machine Group with the Machine(s) you use (one machine at a time).

If you have tool/material libraries that are referenced in your Machine Defs, be sure to check those File Options.

In the resulting Z2G file (which is really just a ZIP file) you'll see a bunch 'o files.

You can ignore all of the files that start with "Zip2Go_".

 

What you want are are the files in the "users" folders;

 

.config

.mtb (toolbars)

.kmp (keyboard)

Along with all of the files needed for the Machine Def you have loaded;

The CD, PST, Tool Lib, materials-5 lib, operations-5 & defaults-5 files Defaults, etc.

 

Create a Z2G for each Machine that you use.

Yes, you'll end up with duplicates, but that doesn't matter.

 

Copy (extract) them to the appropriate folder on your new system.

I know that I am not the sharpest tool in the shed. But what do you mean by start with an empty file?

I have just have one machine.

Ohhhh today i got the idea to check if MastercamX5 was set to all processor in affinity (I found it was only set to 1 processor!)

 

Where is this setting?

I purchased a new Dell workstation. I want set my new computer up exactly like the old computer with all icons settings and mach def in place.

I am going from a XP pro 32 to Windows 7 64. All files are local. What is the best way to go about this?

Can someone run down specifically what files need to be transfered to achieve this?

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Is stiching surfaces broken?

 

I have been trying to stich simple surfaces.

 

First I tried all the impeller files from x3 - x5 and could not convert any of them.

 

Then I tried a simple hollow cylinder from a doughnut wire from scratch...a simple 4 sided surface set.

 

They will not stich. I must setup my X3/X2 puter and see if it is the same on those but I don't remember ever having problems with those 2 versions.

 

Am I missing something?

 

And yes I know I could build a solid from the start. I don't want to do that. I want to use the function Solids from Surfaces and I would like for it to work.

I have been having the same problem. Simple water tight surfaces constantly fail. But I can bring the same surfaces from X5 to V9 and they stitch to a solid perfectly. I am surprised that more are not complaining about this broken functionality. When I upgraded to X5 I did not think I would still need to rely on V9.

Could someone save it as an X4 file and place it on the ftp site, I don't have X5 yet

 

Thanks

I uploaded an X4 version in the X4 Files folder.

Ok, I had to re-model the flag with the correct proportions. The only thing I don't like about it, is that it no longer has a raised stripe as a border to the stars. I guess if I were to cut this, I would engrave a line to complete the border around the stars.

I uploaded a correct proportioned flag to the MCX5 folder FLAG_2.MCX-5

I really like this! I just wish it had the correct proportions. The length should be 1.9 that of the height. For this model it should have been about 3.4" longer. Other wise it is a nice model and somthing that I would love to try to cut, front and back.

Thanks for sharing!

This thread was started in 2009.

Guess what, the "No Projections Found" issue still exists in X5.

This happened to me recently. My reseller took control of my computer and could not get a simple chain to project onto a single surface. Eventually I got it by recreating the surface. I just can't believe that this problem has not been addressed ?

In version 9 if I modfied a chain used for a solid (example: by adding a fillet) all that was needed was a solid regeneration. In X5 the solid remains dirty until I re-select the chain. Am I missing something or is this it for X5?

Anybody know anything about the "Trace Image" function?