Is there a way to make an M00 work if using the same tool without selecting "Force tool change"? Why doesn't an M00 overwrite everything? ex, I was chamfering a part, selected M00 before operation in the Misc values tab, wanted the program to stop BEFORE the next operation, then flip the part to side 2, then have the NEXT operation chamfer side 2. Instead it just went right on running bypassing the M00 I wanted. Thanks ,

thank you, I thought I was going crazy before my time.

Is there any way to turn this function off? I just want to click my entities, not hold the mouse button and drag, if I try to just click, sometimes it works, most times it just keeps saying "select an entity", no matter how many times I select one, when I select the 2nd entity, it acts as if I never selected the first. I hope my description makes some sense. another thing stumping me, when trimming, the last entity selected stays active for the next trim, is there a setting for that I'm missing thank you

April 2003 for me, seems like forever ago

Is there a post setting that if I select an M00 before an operation using the same tool as previous operation that the M00 will be posted. If I Force tool change it works, but then force tool change gets locked on for all operations after wards, unless I remember to turn it off. I would like to think M00 before Operation would post an M00 before the operation no matter what tool is being used. thank you

The button Jayson posted did not work for me either, I just collapse the properties tab at the top, it at least gets the red arrow back in the display.

Did you happen to just slide the column smaller? Go to the top left side and if you get arrows, try sliding to the right

Yes, I have 2017 and 2018 installed. I guess 2017 should definitely go, I was using 2018 today and had no issues

This more colors crash/freeze has been bugging me a lot lately. I'm glad it's not just me though. I only started getting it in 2019 though. A couple times, I've had to reboot my computer because after a crash trying to restart mastercam it would just sit there saying allocating memory at the bottom left of teh screen. Computer reboot was the only way to get it to reopen.

I'm sure I would have won, if only I wasn't laid up at home. btw, I don't have an ipod, in case the winner wants to get rid of it.

What MayDay said. I ran it right out of the box when I 1st got it.

I use the MPMaster for my Haas. You may want to look into that

Try hitting ALT-T I think that's it, I don't remember

quote: Ask JP when he's back from the show...I think its one of his faves...One of his faves, after any Haas of course.

Good to see your still busy John. How's it going?

no matter what you use, 2009 will never look like 2008

ROFL, nice beej :cheers;

I have a Zebra sidewinder in each of my mini mills and they work good for me.

I agree with Thad. start over XL here too.

Did it with the web download and CD Don, Already tried that 1 Jim. thanks anyhow.

welcome back

Trying to install X3 from download on my laptop and keep getting this warning Error applying transforms. Verify that the specific transform paths are valid C:WINDOWSInstaller{C09EBC22-19CF-4678-BAFB-46EAB02261D3}1033.mst Any ideas what to check? I've tried 3 different registry cleaners and see no mention of Mastercam in the registries. The only thing I saw was the Mastercam X icon in the control panel, and that didn't do anything before X2 was installed I re-installed X2 with no problem, tried installing X3 from the disk this time and get the same warning. Thank for any help

After reading gcodes reasoning, I may have scaled a large number of entities and then tried changing levels. I'll try later today on my next part and see what happens. I'll try to remember what I was working on when it happened last week and try it again. quote: I'm also running the latest X3 beta and they may have already solved it. I'm running it too and it happened last week

unfortunately, I can not duplicate it. It happens so rarely, I don't think about it. It may happen because I work super fast and the software can't keep up with my brain