I was haveing the same problem. I used K2's solution and it is working so far. The only thing I did different was click apply,(Blue +) before I Green checked out? I also noticed that it was an intermittent problem in my situation anyway. Thanks K2csq7!

If you use the Vista Ultimate 64 bit OS it will recognise more ram. Rick

Thanks for the info guys,I'll install the FX3500 in the new system and I did order the Q9650 chip instead of the Q9550. Even though winter is coming fast and I could use a little extra heat under the desk! I guess I'll have to keep the little space heater under there now. Thank You, Rick

I'm going to build a box and thanks to the great info on here I,ve got a very good start on picking out my components. Here is what I'm looking at so far: MoBo: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Ram: G-Skill 8GB (2X4GB kit) DDR2 PC8500 Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache Power Supply: Cooler Master UCP RS900 Cooling Fan for Processor: Artic Cooling Freezer7 Pro CPU Coooler Case: Antec Twelve Hundred OS: Windows Vista Ultimate 64 HD: WD VelosiRaptor WD3000GLFS 10,000 Rpm. 300GB I have a question about the Video card or cards. I have a Quadro FX 3500 now that I could put in the new system, or should I put two new cards like the GeForce 8800GTS 512MB, GeForce GTX 260 896MB in SLI which would work better? Thank You,Rick

Hello Jack, Go to line# 246 (should be close to that line) and change arctype$ : to 1 for absolute. That should work for you! Plastech

Thank You for the input Threept82 I have looked into Vericut and recieved a quote, are there any other options? Thank You,Rick

The company which I work for is considering the purchase of an NC verification software. We have outsorced some programing when I am busy and there is no way for us to verify the programs without running them since they are files which have been posted for the machines. I'm just curious to find out what others are useing and why. Thank You, Rick

Lynnz, That is exactly what I did. Thank You Roger, These programs were the first ones I sent to our new machine (Hurco) so we were using a practice block. At least I didn't ruin a mold insert,tool or the machine before I resolved the problem with your help. Thank You, Rick

Roger, I found a switch in the MPHUR post to change the output for G18 from G2 to G3 and G3 to G2. The first note in the Users notes: of the post is in referance to the G18 plane. So I didn't change anything in the control. Thank You, Rick

Thank You Roger!!! I will look into switching that parameter. What you pointed out is what I was thinking as far as the direction the XZ plane is viewed from.

Hurco VMX42 with an Ultimax control and yes the arcs are in the G18 plane.

I have a problem!!! I'm running MC9.1SP2 MR0304 on a Dell P4 3.2GHz with 2Gig ram and a Nvidia Quadro FX 1300 128MB vidio card and updated vidio driver. I programed two cavities in a mold and I have two crashes one in each cavity and in different programs which don't show up in verify or backplot. The problem areas are both arcs in the programs which have the correct information except the direction of the arc is wrong. The first arc gouged the part and faulted the machine because of X travel limits the second arc was much smaller and gouged into the cavity. At first I thought this was a post problem but I checked the NCI files and found that the information is incorrect there. I think that the cause may be in filtering. I run the filter at a 2:1 ratio .001 for filter tolerance and .0005 for cut tolerance for a total of .0015 One way isn't checked create arcs in XY XZ and YZ are all checked and a min. arc of .005 and max.of 100.0. Any information or thought will be very appreciated!!!! Thank You, Rick

Connection was interupted again so only part of the zipped file is on the FTP site. I remade the surface which I was trying to project curves onto and I got that to work. Thank You, Rick C.

Sorry everybody but my connection was interrupted when I was downloading the file to the FTP site and I didn't think that anything was sent. (I looked at the file and it is very messed up and incomplete) I'm going to down load a new zipped file called Plas-Tech 2.MC9 I used level 12 when I had the problem. Also I noticed something new this morning since adding all of the patches I tried to create curves projected onto a surface and I don't get everything projected. I do this for engraving and it worked early yesterday before the updates. Thank You, Rick C.

I have been haveing some problems with very slow cutterpath processing on some simple surface files. I will down load a sample file on the FTP which took over a half hour to process a surface finish flowline cutterpath. I'm useing Mastercam Mill Level 3 V9SP1 & Solids with all of the updated patches, on a Dell Pent.4 1.8GHz,512meg. ram, Nvidia GeForce3 Ti500 with updated Video driver,and 24 gig. of free space on the hard drive. Somebody please let me know if you have any ideas!!! Thank You, Rick C.

Hi everybody, I have also had the same results in V8 and V8.1.1. I think that the problem is associated with filtering and have only noticed it with filtered nci files. I have been using the NCI editer in V7.2 and it works great! Rick Caldwell Tooling Designer/Programer Plas-Tech Tooling Inc.

I am having scanning problems. I can export my file from the scanner to a BMP or a TIF but I cannot import them into V8. Any ideas? If you can convert to BMP can't you import in too? Thanks in advance ------------------

Both Mill3 and Design V8 We have two seats.

After making revisions to a part drawn in solids, I regen all and everything is right. i save. When I go to open the file later I get an error. "error processing solid, no matching opfile" And it won't open the file. Anyone else have this problem or have a solution? Thanks in Advance

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