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 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. A second monitor allows applications such as Mastercam Simulator, Code Expert, Tool Manager and other applications to run on the secondary monitor while Mastercam utilizes the primary monitor. The majority of our internal systems utilize dual monitors and we find this to be more productive. Registered Mastercam customers can find more information on configuring the graphics card in the Mastercam knowledge base article. We recommend using the automatic detect feature to detect which video card is installed.
The latest drivers for NVIDIA and ATI/AMD can be found at the online links. We often see issues that are resolved with updated video drivers. The driver version can have a great impact on how the card performs.
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. We have seen some issues using AMD/ATI Radeon® RX series and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. Other graphics cards can be used, but they must offer full OpenGL 3.2 support. We recommend a NVIDIA Quadro or AMD Radeon® Pro card with 4 GB or more of memory. When purchasing a new computer for Mastercam, one of the most important areas is the video card. For large toolpath generation and simulation we recommend 32 GB of RAM. 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. Mastercam X7 MU2 was the last release to support Windows 7 32-bit OS.
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