Thank you. That is working. Not exactly what I wanted, but I will take it.

Thanks for the reply Tony. What do you mean when the machine is active the files are set to get the correct setup sheet?

Hello all. I would like to get my mill.set setup sheet to pickup from my operations manager the description of the machine to be setup. This is what my setup sheet header looks like when I post it: Date : 06 - 18 - 09 PROGRAMMER : JON PROGRAM NUMBER : O5201 .NC MACHINE : BR 80 TOUCH-OFF POINT : TOP OF MILL FIXED G54 (0,0) : 0,0 HOLE COMMENTS : CUTS THE PARTING SIDE OF THE FILL PLATE - 1" THICK I have the mill.set setup so it prompts for Machine, Touch-off Point, Fixed G54 (0,0), and Comments. I want to have the Machine desription load itself so I don't have to type it in everytime. This should be easy to do but I've tryed several times over the last months and can't get it. I tryed to upload my mill.set to the FTP site but couldn't. I serched for help on how to upload but had no luck finding a complete answer. I have Filezilla but don't know address and password to connect. Thanks in advance. I will post to FTP site if someone helps me with exactly what I need to do.

Got it. Thanks for the help Anubis.

Anubis thanks for the quick responce. I downloaded the file and installed it but I am unable to figure how to use it. What do I have to do to open a file named 1234.zip.gpg? Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone. I received a file to quote and the file extention is .zip.gpg I searched the internet for the .gpg extention and it says it's a GnuPG. Some kind of privacy gaurd program. My contact that sent me the file knows nothing about how to oen it. I have a password to open the file apperently but can't find a download on the internet to install the GnuPG software. Thanks in advance.

A few years ago I was running Camax. We used to go across the network and setup a commonly used key stroke to draw an small arc or a line 100' away from your part, auto zoom (which looks like everything disappears), save the file with a funny name and exit. It would drive the new guys crazy, after a few minutes of learning new swear words we would let the guy in on the joke. Now that I've grownup, I don't do that anymore.

That worked. Thanks

Hi all. I seached for this issue but had no luck finding an answer. When I use Xform Translate or Xform Rotate to four decimal places, mastercam rounds it back to three decimal places. I've looked thru Settings Config but can't find anything that sets this to four decimal places. It's probably right under my nose and I can't see it. Thanks in advance for the help. Mastercam X3 MU1

I think every programmer hates work arounds. But you know those work arounds can lead to forcing a guy to think outside the box and come up with some owesome ideas to improve the quaility and run times. It doesn't seem fair to be forced to pay maint. and not GET SOMETHING. Maybe there needs to be a SP or patch twice a year. Give us the fixes for the things you have fixed. The screen regen issue is very annoying, the red arrow in the machining manager not staying put is very annoyng, updating ANY version of MC is very annoying. Sometimes updates go OK (not very often). Side by side install or overwrite existing version, I've tried both, best to just uninstall and reinstall new version. Still no gaurantee of success. I do like X3 over X2 but things that worked in X2 don't work now in X3. From V9 you can project a curve onto a surface with an offset (so the new curve is not on the surface), in X2-X3 you have to create an offset surface (which most of the time is junk) to project your curve. Still a MC fan, just hurry up with the fixes. I'm accountable for my deadlines, you should be too.

Hello all. I would like to setup and start using remote request to let the cnc operator retrieve the file while standing at the mill instead of coming into the cad room to send the program. We use Focal Point DNC software and have 5 HAAS mills and 3 Milltronics. Most all (95%) of programs are too large to fit into the mills memory so we usually DNC feed everything. My question is how do I request a file from the HAAS controller and get it run in DNC mode? I think I have Focal Point setup correctly. If there is someone out there using both HAAS and Focal Piont this would be great. Thanks in advance.

Thanks!! Editting the folder options worked. It was looking for an old version of Mcam that had been unistalled.

Hello all. I have a computer issue I need help on. I am unable to associate an X3 file with mastercam.exe in my X3 folder. I do not have X3 loaded on the same hard drive with my operating system. When I right click on an X3 file and try "Open With" I can browse and find the .exe file but the file will not open. It keeps trying to use Adobe to open the X3 file. I made sure the first time I tried this not to have the check box picked to always use this file. It's nice to be able to double click a file and have it open. Right now I can't do this. Gotta do it the hard way and open X3 first. X3 XP Pro

It is nice to be able to open more that 1 part file when you have 7 cnc's running up to 7 different jobs. I remember when I first started programming bad things with file seemed to happen, almost always my fault. Some people don't realize (my boss) that I can't design a part in 1 window while I'm toolpathing in another. I only work in 1 at a time but I'm too impatient to stop what I'm doing, save, and open a different file just to see what's wrong. It's usually the opereator mucked up the setup, but that's another thread we will save for a rainy day.

We have 4 seats of X3 and this is the first and only one to develop this problem. Most of the time I have 3-4 X3'z open, Autocad, and playing MP3'z so loud I can't think straight. I had a lot of trouble installing X3 after we put the new hard drive in. Maybe it's just me but installing any version of Mastercam is an adventure. Far from trouble free.

Is there a fix? I had to put a new hard drive in and reinstall X3. Not being able to open multiple windows is going to s k!

Hello all. I have a problem opening a 2nd X3 session. When I double click the icon to open the 2nd window, it starts opening, asks if I want to open another session, but when the window starts to open it suddenly closes with no message of any kind. I have never seen this before. Anyone got any ideas? X3 Windows XP Professional

I thought I tried that, must not have. Thanks!

Hello all. I've come across a situation in Surface Finish Contour that I need to cut from the bottom to the top instead of from the top to the bottom. I see in X3 on the Finish contour parameters tab for Surf Fin Contour there is a check box to do this. It's grayed out so I can't pick it and I can't find a way to activate it. Is there a way to turn this option on? Thanks in advance. X3 Mill3 Lathe Entry Level Solids Multi Axis

Hello all. I've been having a problem with X2 MR2 SP1 since install. If I change the machine definition in my operations manager from my default machine, do some machining, save the file and exit, the next time I open that file there is almost a 100% chance that the machine def goes back to my default. It has caused some problems if a post programs and forget to set this back. Now in X3 it's doing the same thing. Any ideas on what's wrong?

Also in your Settings Config under Start/Exit you need to make sure it Starts with the .mtb file you would like Mastercam to open with. I had some trouble recently with my X2 MR2 and ahd to delete my toolbar state files and re-create them for them stick. Not a big deal, just alittle annoying.

I've searched for an answer to this with no luck. I use surface rough pocket a lot, we are having trouble with feedrates hanging up. Most of the time the feedrate hangs on the plunge rate (which is slower) while it is cutting in the x,y plane. Most of the time when it rapids out of the part to cut the next z level, it will plunge at plunge rate then feed x and y at the correct speed. I never know when this will happen. I have even had it miss the plunge rate, hang on th x,y feedrate (which is much faster) and break endmills. Any ideas how to fix. This happens in V9 as well as X2 MR2.

I was just wondering of anyone out there has used the robotmaster software in their shop. I saw a screen demo of it in Milwaukee at a tool show. It always works good at the shows ya know. We are considering adding it to one of our seats, just didn't know how many bugs it had. A lot of money to spend, just want to make sure it works.

Collin, all the seats are P4 3G processors with 1G of RAM. The mcam RAM allocation is set to about 50% of the total RAM. As far the windows virtual memory and processor schedualling, you got me, way over my head.

Thad, could explain that for me. In mill9 we saved a copy of the bad seats mill9.cfg into a safe place than replaced it with the mill9.cfg from one of the good seats and got the same result on the curve we had before. Wouldn't this make mill9 run the same on both seats?