quote: Or do I just copy the next thing ? That'll do the trick. Otherwise, you can run the clipboard viewer and delete it manually. Click Start | Run, type "clipbrd", hit ENTER and that should bring up the Clipbook Viewer. You can then go File | Delete. If the Clipbook Viewer doesn't appear, you likely need to start the Clipbbok Viewer service. HTH

The VBScript API for Mastercam doesn't have the ability to interact with Solids.

Thanks for the well wishes, everyone! I'll be joining a team that'll be solving enterprise problems and spinning some sexy .NET, SQL and ASP code - nothing Mastercam or CAD/CAM-related in the slightest. This forum has been a part of my life for the past 5 years, so it'll be strange to not visit it zillions of times a day anymore. A lot of fond memories here - discussing the fine art of video card selection for Mastercam workstations and gaming computers, making fun of Jay Kramer's spelling, harassing a Russian priate who harassed the forum, being crowned Mr. Canada (thanks, Pauly), online gaming (gotta get that ///Aphextwin guy in my crosshairs again), lots 'n' lots of scripts, coaxing code samples out of Pete @ CNC, spreading Firefox, and handing out the big bad padlocks when things got crazy. I wish everybody the best of luck in everything, and I'll try to stop in every once an a while to see what's shaking. Stay in touch, folks. Peace Chris (that "Bullines" guy) Bellini http://www.chrisbellini.com

Do you have your video acceleration cranked down? Crank it back up if you do.

If you have maintenance, it'll be "Mastercam X MR1". Otherwise, it'll be "Mastercam X SP2".

The Mastercam X title bar would report which version you're running. Help | About (or ALT+V) would do the same.

quote: When I try to apply a blockdrill operation to any points (created with CreateArcPoint), The operation is created, but under geometry zero points have been selected. Does anyone know why? You're calling the AddArcPoint() or AddDrillPoint() subs to add your points prior to calling MakeBlockDrill(), right? AFAIK, that's the only way to add points to drill operations from Mastercam VBS.

Fixed.

Odd. I can't reproduce with the problem with the latest version of it. The default installation directory is your Mastercam X folder, which it retrieves from a string value called "Directory" here: HKLMSOFTWARECNC Software, Inc.Mastercam X MR1-SP2 Previously, it was stored in: HKLMSOFTWARECNC Software, Inc.Mastercam X Of course, if you have two Mastercam installations and one of them is in a different location (Ex: C:MastercamX), you can select that one.

It was uploaded on the 13th. Try that one.

When did you download the latest version of the setup sheet? There was a bug in the installer and a fixed one was uploaded last week.

Saipem, Are you running X MR1/SP2 or a previous version of X?

For Mastercam, more RAM and/or faster CPU (with more onchip cache) and/or better video card would be a better speed upgrade than striping hard drives.

quote: Go get him bulliness!!!!!!!!!!!! Done. I can log on from home, too.

Latest HASP drivers with both Windows XP and Windows XP x64 support

You're banned. hehehehehehe....muwahahah...lol...pwnd! Lame

quote: The MsgBox Method is a is a good example. Totally unsupported. Indeed, and it is one of few VBScript-native functions not available to the Mastercam VBS API (another one that comes to mind is the Sleep() method of the Shell class...I have a workaround to that, though). However, there are subs like ShowString() and ShowValue() that accomplish the same thing as MsgBox(). quote: Sure WSH is supported but there isn't any documentation about what is actually exposed and available. Plenty is available. Actually, most of it is available. FileSystem, Dictionary, Shell, other DLLs with COM hooks...all of it is available for you to use. As far as WSH documentation, that's always been available here. quote: A little documentation in a useable form would be helpful. That is true. Most of the documentation for the Mastercam APIs is fairly weak. quote: Without it, scripting in Mastercam is essentially worthless. That is not true. Where the documentation leaves off, this forum takes over

How about if the plane height is set to incremental - still greyed out? Have you set a top of stock, too?

If you have Visual Studio .NET, you can use the Object Explorer to look at nethook.dll - it shares a lot with the VBScript API although the use would (obviously) be different. Otherwise, what in particular are you looking for documentation on?

quote: Call SetRetractPlane(1,0,1) Try callinging SetRetractPlane plane like this: code: Call SetRetractPlane(True, False, 1.0) Not all of the conventions from languages like C/C++ carry over to VBScript. Also, use the SetDepth() sub if you want to modify the operation depth.

quote: It would be much faster if Mastercam had been compiled with switches to support simultaneous tasks. If only it were as simple as specifiying a few switches to the compiler; it's not. Mutlithreaded programming is a whole other beast and implementing it across an entire application as large as Mastercam would take a lot of work.

quote: Spend some time customizing the RMB (Right Mouse Button) and you'll be glad you did. It'time well spent. And the keyboard shortcuts, too.

That notebook looks like it would be great for gaming, but... For CAD/CAM, I recommend the Dell Precision M70 with the WXGA display.

If you're running Mastercam V9 or earlier, avoid all ATI cards and onboard video chipsets from Intel and SiS - stick with the nVIDIA Quadro FX line for best results. If you're running Mastercam X, consider either the nVIDIA Quadro FX or ATI FireGL line of cards.

At the present time, you have no access to WCS from the VBScript API. The Nethook API has a WCS value in the MC_EVENT enumerator, but I haven't looked into its use. Otherwise, the C-Hook API (requiring Visual C++ .NET 2002 or higher) would be your only choice.