Thanks Jay, That is kind of what I was thinking.

Colin, quote: Have you configured your Graphics card to use the solidworks performance and quality profile and selected the CAD desktop profile? These two settings work like magic on the FX 2500M. The other thing you might want to do is set the affinity of Mastercam to the 2nd core processor. I didn't set the affinity or the process priority for my test though. This was a fresh default install and I hadn't reset a thing. Affinity is set by default to both cores. quote: Did you turn off the surface/plane intersection display? No. quote: What are your toolpath repaint options set to for toolpath creation (settings - configuration - Toolpaths - Toolpath display during creation)?

Ron, What is a "very good job"?

Dude are you in the right thread?

Any other suggestions to speed up processing.

Jeremy, My Dell M90 was loaded and I'm assuming that it is pretty much the same as Colin's M90 and I scored 10 min 55 sec. almost a 2min difference. quote: 9min 5sec Dell M90 Laptop T2600 processor (dual core 2.16Ghz) 2GB RAM FX 2500M graphics card 95% Toolpath RAM Allocation Display surface/plane intersections: OFF -------------------- Colin Gilchrist § IRC NC Programming The Boeing Company

Hmmmmm?

Roger, The times on my M90 as well as a M70 from our local dealers (In-House Solutions) laptop are posted in the "benchmark" thread. I noticed that Colin from Boeing (M90, out-fitted the same) had quite a bit better result?

The previous posted time was from Ajmer Gills M70 of In-House Solutions BC

11 min 37 sec Xp pro Sp2 Dell precision M70 Intel Pentium m 2.00 ghz 1.00 gig of ram Nvidia quadro fx go 1400 256 meg ram

10min 55sec Dell M90 T2600 2.16GHz Duo 2GB DDR2 667MHz XP Pro

I haven't found a 2.5" hard drive that spins more that 7200, and if there is it more than likely has diminished amount of storage. I've looked for a larger 7200rpm drive than the 100GB that I have in my M90 but I haven't found one yet.

Jay, I do the same with my M90. Actually do it to every machine I use. It really does make an over all preformance difference. Roger, I aplogize for not posting the time from the bench mark, I'm just in the middle of a rebuild on my M90 and should be able to run the test within the next evening or two.

Tr3bor, What was the time?

Trademark. That make sense now. Never had any dealings with it obviously.

sounds like a joke to me.

No worries. I will test tonight on my M90. I know that it usually does better than the desktop I just post results on.

12min 21sec Desktop Pentium 4 3.06GHz XP Pro 2GB Ram I'll try this later on my M90.

Yes, or you can just create curves from the solid model.

LOL

True , True

quote: You should be able to save your Solidworks drawing as a DWG or DXF, then import it into Mastercam. That should work even with an orphaned drawing where you don't have the model. Why? You first can import a sldprt file directly into McamX, the only short coming is if you are using alternate part configuration within SolidWorks. If you are open SolisWorks and either save the sldprt file as the configuration you would like or save as .x_b or .x_t (parasolid files). Then you caould use Solid Layout as Hardmill suggested.

Here, Here Is there a way that users can be informed. Full disclosure....that sort of thing.

2 more hour till regatta time.

Excuse the Rant. Pete you have mail.