THANK YOU RIVA-TNT II Great card,no crashes,the only problem i noticed are the the white boxes(where i should type numbers,like feed rate or spindle speed or any other "white box",while typing,i can't see the number at all,only when i leave the box,i can see the numbers,but while typing,i can't see it,it's black. I have this bug since i started to work with NT 4.0 Workstation.(there was no problem under Windows 98),but i guess i got used to this bug.

I tried it already,it doesn't work! I renumbered the work offset but nothing happends!

I tried to set the work offsets to 0, but in few operations the work offset was grey,and i couldn't change it! anyone knows why? Thanks, [This message has been edited by elad (edited 05-07-2001).]

I had to convert a solid to sat. After using "write file" in the sat convertor,i tried to open it in mastercam,using "read file",and i got the message : PARASOLID® Kernel interface fault error RTTODS-disjoint shell. why??

oops, found the problem. I changed in the filter parameters to metric and everything is back to normal

Changing force_wcs to "no" doesn't solve the problem. You can try to set "work offset" (in the t/c plane) to 0 in all the operations. I tried it,and when posting,i got the message : "work offset number used in more then 1 view", but the gcode looks good, and it use G54 at all the operations. I didn't try this on the machine,but i think it can work fine. let me know if it works for you

When I get a new tool,If the filter is active,i see no tools. I have to cancel the filter,and then i get the list of all the tools in the library. it is since i installed the new mill patch.

Hi, I experienced a serious problem with the subprograms : After sending the program to the machine,i had to do a simple contour and after that few holes. I made the contour with no problem,and when the machine had to do the drilling,i got an alarm message. After chacking the gcode,i found out that the drilling subprogram is the same subprogram of the contour (it tried to use G42 for drill ). and here is my problem : I'm sure it's not a problem with my post! i always use subprograms,and i had this problem twice! After restarting the computer,and making gcode again,the problem was gone! What's going on here??

Hi, How does windows 2000 works with mastercam??

Hi, when i change the direction of drilling,sometimes i get the message "point sorting turned off". What does it mean??

In my opinion,it is not a very good idea to use WIN-ME at all. I had a lot of crashes,when using it. Win-ME suppose to give you more enterteiment and microsoft developed the plug&play, and some other things that good for playing games. I also had some problems with win98.(not as mouch has i had in ME). Now i'm using NT workstation.and it works great.no crashes at all.

How about pressing SHIFT+C and it will make for us a coffee??

How about making a solid from surfaces?? (it is possible in Solidworks)

If you'll activate the "finish" ,you will be able to use cutter comp. and if you don't want any finish passes after the rough pocket,i suppose you don't need cutter comp. as far as i know,cutter comp. works only with contour.

in backplot and verify, i can see only the x,y,z coordinates. Is there a way to see the 4th and the 5th axis coordinates too?? I need it when using multi axis. Thanks,

what if i want the stock file to be in a different gview?? [This message has been edited by elad (edited 03-20-2001).]

why do you need smaller?? [This message has been edited by elad (edited 03-20-2001).]

What is that westec anyway??

I think it will be good if we'll have a chat room here.

Why are they sending you x_t files?? ask them to send you sldprt files. I already converted .sldprt from solidworks 2001, and it works just fine.

I changed the tool number in the parameters window untill now and i had that problem,but after trying what you suggested i found out that it works just fine. Thanks, Elad. [This message has been edited by elad (edited 03-19-2001).]

I set the dia. and the len. offset in the configurations to length:1 diameter:20(if i use tool 1,the dia. offset is 21). (gcode:TOOL-1 D-21 H-1 DIA.) anyway, i noticed that if i use the same tool for few operations,and then i decide to change the tool's number, i get "changing tool will update your operations,continue?" and when i click yes,all the operations that using this tool will update. The problem is that the dim. offset and the len. offset are updating only at the first operation,and all the other operations stays like it was before i changed the tool's number. is there a way to make mastercam update not only the operations tool's number,but also the dim. offset and the len. offset?? thanks, [This message has been edited by elad (edited 03-19-2001).]

Thanks anyway, It is too far away..... send me some photos when you'll all be there, it will be nice to see the faces behind this forum. [This message has been edited by elad (edited 03-19-2001).]

Where is it??

I think ranger ment that he has problem converting the slddrw and not the sldprt. when i'm converting drawing in dxf,i get all the details accept the arrows(!).it's hard to understand dim without the arrows. why when coverting from dxf,mastercam lose this details??