Mastercam X3 MU1 Issues

[cncmike]

The latest release of Mastercam MU1 has numerous issues in it.

Today while working on numerous different parts, Mastercam would just shut down for no reason. Then upon opening the file again, my Toolpath groups were split as individual Machine Group and all my Machine/Tool/Stock files were reset to a standard MFAN file group, which I have custom Machine Definition and Posts and Controls for each of our machines, for over a year now.

The other programmer on our second seat has noticed the same problems with this release which I updated only 2 days ago.

This is by far, the worse Release in the 6 years that I have experienced with CNC Software Inc.

What are you guys doing at CNC Software? This software used to be bullet proof under V9. The initial "X" had some issues, but we understand that it was an overhaul and "X2" was much better.

This whole "X3" package is looking like a great disappointment, and now our Maintenance Contract is due. It's really hard to try to get my boss to cough up $2,500 this year with the issues we are having.

cncmike

[cncmike]

So I put a call in to our MasterCam retailer and through our conversation he stated that with the issues we have going on he believes that it has to do with the Verifying interface in X3.

He said that MasterCam has changed their Verifying side some to push more of the Processing onto the Graphics card and this might be the problem we are dealing with.

I am skeptical, but Monday if I have time I am going to try to play with some settings some and maybe look for updated drivers for the graphics card.

As usual, they had to fixes over the phone, so we will see.

cncmike