Hi guys someone was asking about my tube. Well don't try to run MC on XP Home! When I first fire MC up in the morning its crankey as all getout, won't let me save files and crashes every time I try. But then after I work with it, it starts to work better and by 10 am or so its working just fine. I think Glen at Cad-cam consulting is right XP home just does not have the memory management skills to handle real work. Just for games and Ebay, crap like that. We will talk the boss out of the $200 for the upgrade to pro but for now just call me CRASH. thanks for the work on the file, putting in a floor is a great idea I'll do that. By the way if you take those #40 surfaces and rotate and copy them 5 times at 60 deg. you get a real cool looking wheel. see ya later by John

Hi its me again the file is on the ftp site sstrkscaleup16.mc8 just cutting the surfs that are #40 color. contour toolpath went bonkers, tryed to cut both sides of the surfs??? loto is 65 mil tonight I might not care about tool paths tomorow! John

Sorry to tell you but we are still running 8.1.1

I am trying to run this type of tool path on some steep surfaces MC wants to run from top of surfaces and bottom of surfaces back and forth. (Lots of air time) is there any way to make it just run top to bottom and keep the tool on the material? thanks in advance John

THE GUYS COVERED MOST OF THE PITFALLS BUT ONE THING WAS NOT STRESSED ENOUGH. THE CONSTRUCTION PLANE THAT YOU AR IN WHEN YOU MAKE THE TRIM MAKES A BIG DIF!! oops caps again. try makeing the same trim in top and side and you will see what i mean. sometimes you can make things better by projecting the curve onto the surface you are trying to trim, but there again that is driven by the const. plane you do it in.

HI GUYS OOPS to answer one question we are running v8.1.1 ok did everthing recomended still crash on file save ???????????? will call glen at cad-cam consulting. hope i don't have to spend $175 bucks for upgrade to pro john@budnik

ok now it runs ok v-card is good, but every time i go to save a file it saves the file then crash. at least it saves the file befor it dies but it's still a pain in my you know what. I'll try not to shout but my caplock is on all the time and I forget. still need help

HI ITS ME AGAIN JOHN@BUDNIK OK I DID WHAT YOU GUYS SAID TO DO. I INSTALLED A WINFAST A250 LE TD GEFORCE4 TI WITH 64 MB DDR. IMPROVED TUBE, SHADING AND WIREFRAME AND ROTATION MUCH BETTER THAN STOCK. BUT MASTERCAM IS STILL CRASHING ALOT!!! CAN'T GET ANY WORK DONE SMOKE IS STARTING TO COME OUT OF THE BOSSES EARS!! ERROR MESAGE AFTER CRASH IS APPNAME MILL8.EXE APPVER 0.0.0.0 MOD NAME MILL8.EXE MODVER 0.0.0.0 OFFSET 002F9A74 PENT 4 512MB RAM RUNNING WIN XP HELP! HELP! HELP! SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS JOHN WITH TAIL ON FIRE

HI JUST GOT NEW SONY SYSTEM ALL IS GREAT BUT THE VIDEO CARD IS JUNK, CRASH CITY!!! I FOUND A GOOD DEAL ON A ATI RADDON 8500 LE CARD $129.99 128 MEG RAM. SONY IS A PENT 4 WITH 512 RAM I AM TRYING TO WORK WITH SOME FAIRLY DENSE SURFACE FILES AND NEED HELP THANKS IN ADVANCE JOHN@BUDNIK