o.k. do what James said ! ! ! I have consistently been using ram-saver and it works very well! I notice that it cleans up each file very well. When I do this after each translation, I notice that it is able to get rid of quite a bit of information. thanks ! ! ! ! ! ! ------------------ A.J. Ellis

. . so I allocated half of my ram (thanks James). Get this: . . . I also notice that when I translate geometry, the result has copied certain things that weren't supposed to be copied. I have 0 in the "number of steps" box. That wouldn't matter anyway though, because if it were multiple steps, the resulting geometry would not be directly on top of the existing geometry, unless I copied it that way. It seems that the incident I just encountered copied dimensions only, but this is definetely a bug. I will then do a delete all duplicate entities command, and the duplicate dimensions remain. I am sure that I have "move" selected, and not "copy". This seems to really slow my system down. If I have to move things several times, I find that I have to manually delete the same dimension multiple times, 20 or so deletions for the same dimension piled on top of itself. And when I have a complete mold design with several hundred dimensions, this can get very time consuming! p.s. it also takes an awful long time to delete entities. ------------------ A.J. Ellis

Thanks Andreas, I tried that, but it didn't seem to have any effect. What do you guys think should be a good ram allocation in the screen configure box? I tried changing that too, with no effect. gms1, the system I am getting built now has rdram. You say you have 512mb with a 1ghz processor - do you like it? My system will be very close to what you have . . . ------------------ A.J. Ellis

. . . thanks for the ram-saver tip James.

I run a defrag about once a month, and all temp folders on the system are cleansed! I think the same way you do, first I try to troubleshoot the crud out of the box, and then I do it again! I am left wondering because this works on all of my other software, including other cad software, but does not work with Mastercam for some reason. Get this: I installed Draft7 on this box a while back, and when I would move geometry around, the system would pause for a while, then 2 gigs worth of space would dissappear! I exit Mastercam, and the 2 GB are still gone. Then, when I re-open Mastercam, the 2 gigs return . . .strange! I tried everything I know, as far as cleaning up my drives. My system has 2 hard drives, so i have my pagefile.sys split between the two so as not to bog one down. Now with Version8, this does not happen, but I still feel something is weird. Also, the "uninstall" feature in 7 would not let me uninstall - at all. Thanks James ------------------ A.J. Ellis

I use Draft 8 for plotting mold designs, and I have noticed a couple of weird things; 1) it seems to take an awful long time to move entities around the screen. When I first installed 8 it was very fast (i run a pentium 3 550 MHz with 1024MB SDram), and now the system seems as slow as my 90MHz! 2) when I go into a file that has already been saved, with dimensions, it will prompt me with dialog boxes saying "Warning, selected entities do not intersect." . . . thanks in advance ------------------ A.J. Ellis