Carbide Create Interoperability Problem

[philiphack]

Hi All,

Happy Early Thanksgiving!

I’m coming up against an issue between versions of Carbide Create. I’ve designed something in CC 474 on a Mac, in my warm cozy den upstairs. When I create the tool paths, everything looks good.

When I come downstairs to my cold basement and try to open it up in CC 431 on a different Mac (the one dedicated to my SO3), all my tool paths are empty. My Mac downstairs can’t run CC 474 due to an older OS, but is certainly fast enough to run my SO3 and has been for a year.

Looking in the tool path specifics on CC 431, I can see that every tool I’ve chosen has NA written in all of its parameter boxes. It’s as if the tool definitions in CC 474 use a completely different format that can’t be read by CC 431.

Not only that, but changing to a different tool in 431 yields the same “NA” no matter what tool I choose. The only reason Stepover is there is because I hand typed it.

Has anyone come up against this?

Thanks,

Philip

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

I believe 431 uses tools stored in the ini files, while 474 uses tools from the CSV files.

I believe it would work to create identical tool libraries on both versions.

But it would be better to use the same version in both places.

[philiphack]

Hi Will,

Thanks. How does one go about creating identical tool libraries?

Barring that, is there a link to 431 somewhere so I can downgrade my 474 copy?

My older Mac will not run 474.

Thanks,

Philip

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Folks with such difficulties should contact us at support@carbide3d.com and we’ll do our best to work through any such issues with you.