#TIPS AND TRICKS USING MASTERCAM X5 INSTALL#
#TIPS AND TRICKS USING MASTERCAM X5 DRIVERS#
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Open a Google Gmail account if you donвЂ™t already have one at Create Google Account. Try temporarily disabling the anti-virus software or setting an exception for Mastercam.Google Drive is a great way to create revisioned backups at milestone points of your choosing by just pressing ALT-S or clicking on вЂњSaveвЂќ in Mastercam. CNC Software does not recommend specific anti-virus products, but if you see unexpected issues, it may be a conflict with anti-virus software. In some cases, these have been found to interfere with applications such as Mastercam which are running on the computer. Most computers today have some kind of anti-virus software to protect from unwanted malware. Additional technical and purchase information can be found on the 3Dconnexion website. You gently manipulate the 3D mouseвЂ™s controller cap to simultaneously pan, zoom and rotate 3D content while your standard mouse is free to select menu items or parts of the model. It is designed to be used by your non-dominant hand in tandem with a standard mouse for a balanced and cooperative work style. 3D MOUSEДЄ 3D mouse improves the way you interact with your 3D application. Many of our test systems employ a smaller primary SSD for the OS and installed applications with a second large capacity conventional drive for data. These drives are now priced at a point which makes them a good investment. We have found that one of the best computer upgrades is to invest in a Solid State Drive (SSD). Mastercam will run on large format displays, including 4K monitors and high-DPI devices however, we do experience some display issues with these configurations. Lower resolution monitors may work fine as a second monitor in a dual screen setup. Mastercam will run on lower resolution screens but beware of potential sizing issues with larger dialog boxes and panels which may be awkward to work with. The minimum recommended resolution for the primary display is 1920 * 1080 resolution typical of widescreen monitors available today. Mastercam displays on the primary monitor while applications such as Mastercam Simulator, Code Expert, or Tool Manager display on the secondary monitor. Most of our internal systems utilize dual monitors and we find this to be a more productive setup. More information on configuring the graphics card can be found at this Mastercam knowledge base article. We recommend using the automatic detect feature to detect which video card is installed.

#TIPS AND TRICKS USING MASTERCAM X5 DRIVERS#

The latest drivers for NVIDIA and AMD can be found at the online links.

#TIPS AND TRICKS USING MASTERCAM X5 DRIVER#

The driver version can have a great impact on how the card performs.

We often see issues that are resolved with updated video drivers. Make sure you are using up-to-date drivers from your card manufacturer. These do not generally have the capability to drive graphics intensive applications such as Mastercam. We do not recommend or support the use of onboard graphics found with some PC configurations. OpenCL is required for Mastercam to be able to hand off certain computation tasks to the graphics card to increase system performance.

#TIPS AND TRICKS USING MASTERCAM X5 FULL#

Other graphics cards can be used, but they must offer full OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 1.2 support. We recommend an NVIDIA QuadroВ® or AMD FireProв„ў / Radeon Pro card with 4 GB or more of memory. When purchasing a new computer for Mastercam, one of the most important component is the video card. For large toolpath generation and simulation, we recommend 32 GB of RAM. We recommend a minimum of 8 GB of memory. When Mastercam uses all available RAM, it switches to using virtual memory space, which is stored on the hard drive and will dramatically slow the system down. We typically see a 50% reduction in toolpath calculation time with the latest Intel i7 or Xeon processors. Toolpath calculation and Simulation will generally run faster with a multi-core processor. With each release, more and more aspects of Mastercam are becoming multi-core processor aware. The processor speed will impact how fast the software will calculate and complete tasks.

#TIPS AND TRICKS USING MASTERCAM X5 INSTALL#

Future versions of Mastercam will not install on Windows 7. Mastercam 2022 will install on Windows 7 systems but will not be supported. Mastercam 2021 was the last release to officially support Windows 7 as Microsoft ended extended support for the OS in January 2020. While Mastercam may run on other Windows editions (such as Home Edition) or virtual environments (such as Parallels for Mac), it has not been tested on these configurations and is therefore not supported.

#TIPS AND TRICKS USING MASTERCAM X5 WINDOWS 10#

We recommend using Windows 10 version 1903 or later 64-bit Professional editions. View Detailed Requirements And Suggestions OPERATING SYSTEMSД¬NC Software continues to review the operating system (OS) requirements for Mastercam with a goal of providing the best possible user experience for our customers. The Mars Society Rover Challenge Series.

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