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Installation and Update Instructions for Mastercam X7 Getting your X7 installation up and running!

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Installation and Update

Instructions for Mastercam X7

Getting your X7 installation up and running!

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Installation Insert the Mastercam X7 DVD into your computers drive, the Installation dialog will launch.

Click the “Mastercam X7 Installs” button to continue.

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Installation choices are presented on this page, the “Setup” radio button should already be selected and the “Mastercam X7” check box will also be pre-selected. Check only the installations you are authorized for and which Sample Files you would like to install if any. Then click the “Next” button to continue.

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Your selected installation settings are shown on this page along with the “Current Settings”. Review the items in the “Current Settings” area, if you need to change any of the items displayed, click the “Configure” button.

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The “Current Settings” are displayed so you can make changes to the settings. Click “Done” and the “Current Settings” will update on the review screen. Click “Next” on the “Review-Configure” page to continue the installation.

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You can accept the license agreement by selecting “Yes, I accept the terms of the license agreement” and clicking the “Install” button.

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After clicking “Install” on License Agreement page the installation begins.

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Installation – Complete

You can check the Launch Mastercam on Exit check box if you would like to go ahead and open Mastercam X7.

The following pages have step by step instructions to

update your files from a previous version of Mastercam X.

Select Exit to complete the installation.

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Updating How to update your Machine Definition, Control Definition, Post Processor, Tool Libraries, Operations Defaults, Operation Libraries to Mastercam X7. NOTE: If you are updating from X5 to X7 use the instructions below by replacing X6 with X5. If you are updating from X, X2, X3 or X4 you may follow the steps below up to the point of where your original files are copied from. The X to X4 file locations are described on the File Locations page. Then follow the rest of the update proceedures. Create a new Folder on your Desktop; Right click on your Desktop name the folder X6 to X7.

The new folder is shown below:

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Double click to open your new X6 to X7 folder and Right click inside of the X6 to X7 folder. You’ll need to create the directory structure exactly as it is in the Shared McamX6 directory. The first folder inside the X6 to X7 folder will be a cnc_machines folder. Then create a mill folder inside the X6 to X7 folder. Only create the ones needed. If you do not own Lathe or Wire, it is not needed.

Double click to open the product folder, i.e. Mill, Lathe, Router or Wire. Right click inside of that folder and select “New Folder”. You’ll need to create the directory structure exactly as it is in the Shared Mastercam directories. In this Mill example, the ops, posts and tools folders will be created. This will allow the update of the Operation Defaults, Post Processor and Tool Libraries. As these are the only files being updated, these are the only folders necessary in the Mill folder.

Copy only the desired or needed files out of the Shared McamX6 structure and place them in the Desktop folder in their corresponding locations. Files from mill/posts should be copied to mill/posts. Files from cnc_machines, should be copied to cnc_machines. Etc…. By taking the extra few minutes to create our folders properly and copying only the files the user wants to move from X6 to X7, a clean update can now happen. This process only updates the files the user wishes to carry over from the previous version.

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FILE LOCATIONS __________________________________________________________________

Typical file locations for X5 & X6 in Windows 7 & 8:

Machine Definitions: C:\Users\Public\Documents\shared mcamx6\CNC_MACHINES Files types to be copied: *.MMD-6, *.LMD-6, *.WMD-6, *.RMD-6 and *.CONTROL-6

Post Processors: C:\Users\Public\Documents\shared mcamx6\Product\posts Files types to be copied: *.PST & *.PSB

Tool Libraries: C:\Users\Public\Documents\shared mcamx6\Product\tools Files types to be copied: *.TOOLS-6 or *.TOOLDB

Operation Defaults & Libraries: C:\Users\Public\Documents\shared mcamx6\Product\ops Files types to be copied: * .DEFAULTS-6 and * .OPERATIONS-6

Product = Mill, Lathe, Router or Wire

Typical file locations for X, X2, X3 & X4:

Machine Definitions: C:\McamX*\CNC_MACHINES Files types to be copied: *.MMD, *.LMD, *.WMD, *.RMD and *.CONTROL

Post Processors: C:\McamX*\Product\posts Files types to be copied: *.PST & *.PSB

Tool Libraries: C:\McamX*\Product\tools Files types to be copied: *.TOOLS

Operation Defaults & Libraries: C:\Users\Public\Documents\shared mcamx6\Product\ops Files types to be copied: * .DEFAULTS and * .OPERATIONS

Product = Mill, Lathe, Router or Wire

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To begin the update process in Mastercam X7, click on the “File” menu and select “Update folder”.

The Update Folder Process: The user can choose ONLY the file types that they want to update. You will want to set the Source Folder location. Update this field to your X6 to X7 folder you created on the desktop. Select the Search sub-folders check box to allow all of the sub-folders to be processed as well. After setting the Source Folder, the destination folder will know the default X7 location, if not set to the shared Mcamx7 folder, this should be checked and set. Clicking the Green Check will begin the process of updating the files in the folders and updating the post processors at the same time.

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The Update Folder process will begin. You may see some items pop up and close in the graphics area, this is normal. As the process ends the Mastercam Code Editor will open displaying some text information about the post update process. You may just close that window. __________________________________________________________________

Migration

Can I use the X7 Migration Utility? If you are migrating your personal settings (\My McamX6) from X6 to X7, yes you can use the Migration Utility. If you are updating from a version before X6, the migration utility cannot be used.

However, we do not advise using the Migration Utility for your (\Shared McamX6) shared files. Some problems may arise if you choose to do this, please follow the instructions in the “Updating” section of this document to update your shared files.