Experiencing this too here on one of the computers at our shop. Machinist suspects it happened after Windows updated. It's now Windows version 2004. Uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, with no success.

Well, I just tried rerunning and restarting multiple times. Also, copied the definition and post files to the local drive and reset all the file targets and tried again with that. No luck! The debugger is not so helpful if you can't watch the variables!

When using the Post Debugger, for quite some time I have had problems with watching variables. Instead of showing me the value of the variable, it instead just displays "server error". The only thing I've thought could be causing it is that the post processor, as well as machine and control definitions, are on another drive than Mastercam's installed folder. My next step is to create a temporary test definition and post on the local drive. Anyone have experience with this and know what I should be doing to see the variable values again?

How would you do that for a drafting note? Are you perhaps thinking of a manual entry?

When I create a new drafting note by loading from file in Mastercam 2019, I experience problems with the line breaks (ie. when you hit 'Enter' for a new line). I load a note from a .txt file that has multiple lines. When I initially create the note, the text looks fine in the new interface. However, if edit the note text (using 'analyze entity'), this uses the old dialog box interface, and all the text is on one long line. Mastercam still recognizes that there are line breaks, and the string of text has an invisible extra character where there is a break. It displays correctly again on screen, but not in the dialog box. See pics attached. Anyone else experience this and have any thoughts?

I figured out the problem. Apparently when X+ makes the screenshot, it temporarily switches the background colours to white (colour #15). I had accidentally modified colour #15 in the configuration to be a dark grey colour. I corrected that and now all looks as it should!

Two computers here at my work are creating the screenshots with dark backgrounds instead of the usual white or transparent. Anyone have thoughts as to what would cause this to happen? Other computers seem to be working just fine.

Is there a way to improve the image quality for the screenshots in the X+ Tool List? (not the snapshot function). We use the screenshot to include additional setup information for the machinists, but image becomes quite blurry and grainy.

Gunther, this is a really valuable add-on to have. Thank you! We just did a major upgrade here, going from X7 to 2017, and I noticed one problem now that didn't happen with X+ in X7. I have my Toolpath Manager display options set to highlight wireframe geometry for selected toolpaths to colour White. This presents a problem when creating the screenshot for setup sheet, since when I select the toolpaths for the setup sheet, it highlights all the geometry White, and isn't visible against the white background of the screenshot. Is there a way to fix this so that the original geometry colour shows up on the screenshot? Thanks again!

1) When surface shading is on, you can only select wireframe that's on outer edges of the part, since surfaces will always highlight first in the middle of the part. If you want to select a few wireframe entities that are not in a chain, without turning shading off do this: - hold down the SHIFT key as though chain selecting (temporarily turns on a wireframe only mask) - hover over the wireframe entity you want to select - once that entity highlights, release the SHIFT key and without moving your mouse click the entity Might sound finicky, but once you've done it a few times and get used to it, I find it to be helpful. 2) Use the right-click menu in fields in dialog boxes. For example, when Xform-Rotating, you can right-click in the angle field and click the angle sub-menu to get the angle from a line, two lines, or from points. You can also just type in the letter in the field and hit enter instead of right-clicking, ie. s=distance between points, l=length of an entity, r=radius, etc. I think almost all dialog boxes have this, including toolpaths. Wide range of uses for this one!

I'm working on a whole series of similar parts, going through the same routine for every part...about a 15 minute process. I basically have to restart between every part. I still haven't been able to determine what stage of the process it's happening in, and it doesn't seem to be the same every time either.

I think I've noticed another corresponding trend: several times now, at some point before the level manager won't let me right-click, I start seeing funny things in the Operation manager. If I expand operations, or minimize them, they will start overlapping, and hiding each other. Sometimes closing and reopening the operation manager will fix it, but other times, the only thing to fix will be a restart of Mastercam. Anyone else see the same thing with the operation manager?

Having this issue frequently today, which made me come back here to check if there was a solution yet. I haven't been able to figure out what triggers it.

Having the same problem here! Greg, did you manage to figure this out? Anyone else know a possible solution to this?

The fix worked, Gunther, except for one thing I noticed. Even if finishing is disabled in the pocket operation, the setup sheet still shows a comp type, whatever is selected even though it's grayed out. Not a big deal, though. Thanks.