We tried the downloadable one from HP site. Didn't have custom. Were going to look for the one the draftsmen used with the latest ACAD.

We've gone through two GE's on our router in the last 7 years. We have a different brand in now can't think of the name at the moment. We have horrible power surges, spikes, dropouts and voltage variations in our area, so this probably doesn't help.

Hi All, I'm trying to plot a large full size layout, I want to break the plot into long 36" x whatever strips and paste them together on the floor. I'm using xp pro & MC9 and a HP DesignJet755CM plotter but I can't find custom paper sizes anymore either in the MC screen plot setup or printer controll panel set up. When I was using Win98 there was always custom paper sizes available in the set ups. Now there is a whole S*load of paper sizes to pick from but no custom. Anybody using this plotter with XP and know what I'm doing wrong or is the XP driver not have custom available anymore? Thanks

I also was d.o.a. after installing the update. It was about 7:30am, couldn't call dealer, called Mastercam tech support. They emailed me the drivers.zip file Mike M. is talking about and it got me going. MC tech said Microsoft had gotten a bad driver from Alladin and put it in with the update. The zip file is supposed to strip it out and set the world right again.

Sellis, I did a house number sign like this for myself a while ago. I used MEDEX water resistant mdf and painted it with two color of latex. I created an elipse and added letters with a windows font ( create, letters, pick your font etc.) The outer elipse and border are full material thickness (1/2"), the field is pocketed in 3/16" deep so that the letters remain and stand proud of the border. If you want I could send you the file with the toolpaths so you could see whats goin' on. It would be a fun learning project that students could actually use.

Chris, What I ment by drawing up your machine is draw a rectangle to represnt the table. Get the coordinates of the four corners of the machine table and use those numbers to draw a rectangle that represents your machine table. Then take that rectangle and draw a vertical line at 121.0645 to represent the fence at the short end of the table. Draw a long horizontal line at 66.6205 to represent a longer fence line running the lenght of the table. Trim the two lines together at the intersection. You can then draw a 48 x 96 or 49 x 97 rectangle in the corner of the fence to represent stock sheet sizes. Drop your parts in the box and away you go. We dont use the pop up pins here, we have pcs. of 1/4 mdf screwed down to the table with a gap in the corner to keep the crud out. We put the fences down past the fence lines drawn in Mastercam and then use the machine to trim the fences so the jive 100% with the drawing templet. This is very fast and simple. Machinist dudes reading this are probably shaking their heads by now but cutting wood and plastic sheet goods is a different thing thang clamping chunks of metal in vises and using a part offset.

Chris, Are you just trying to drop the parts on a sheet that is on the pop up pins or a home made fence? If thats all you want to do then use the machine to find the coordinates of the machines table corners and the line of the fences, draw up your machine and tables in mastercam,then save it as a drawing templet. Draw up your parts, merge in the drawing of your machine and fences, drag or translate your parts in and do your toolpaths. Post your file and your code and you wont need any fence or other offsets to worry about. Simple, fast and easy.

Dimention before or after scaling to fit the paper both work. If you are going to do it after it's shrunk just remember to change the drafting globals- dim. attributes scale factor to the scale you used to fit your paper size. Just remember its in reverse of shrinking the part-- so for example to dimention the scaled part thats say 3/4"=1' the scale factor would be 16 not .0625 that you used to shrink the big part.