Thanks to all those that have replied. There is an environment problem on our XP workstations where our IS department has our default "home" directory on a mapped drive to the server. Because of that, SmartCAM could not file the uiv4.dll file that it requires from the system folder. We created a batch file and associated our pm4 files with it. We have successfully used it to launch SmartCAM in Windows XP using the windows explorer.
Below is the contents of a batch file: set SCAM_ROOT=C:\SM9\SYSTEM set SCAMLIBS=C:\SM9\SYSTEM set Path=%PATH%;%SCAMLIBS% cd /d %SCAM_ROOT %SCAM_ROOT%\amill %1 The file was written for advanced milling but can be modified by changing the last line to the appropriate application, "ffm", "amill", "pmill", "aturn", "pturn", "afab" or "awedm" ================================================== Fred Lauzus, CAM Programming Coordinator High Steel Structures, Incorporated mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.highsteel.com ================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mfg-smartcam] Starting SmartCAM from Explorer in XP We have started switching our SmartCAM to Windows XP workstations. We had previously associated the PM4 file type to the SmartCAM executable so we could start the application by double clicking the file in Explorer. We got this to work in Win 95, Win NT and Win 2K. I'm not having any luck in Win XP however. I receive an error and an apology from Microsoft "We are sorry for the inconvenience" I've tried modifying the command line as follows with no success. "C:\SM9\SYSTEM\afab.exe" "%1" C:\SM9\SYSTEM\afab.exe "%1" C:\SM9\SYSTEM\afab.exe %1 "C:\SM9\SYSTEM\afab.exe" %1 Has anyone had success in doing this with SmartCAM under Win XP? Thanks. ================================================== Fred Lauzus, CAM Programming Coordinator High Steel Structures, Incorporated mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.highsteel.com ================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
