I'm trying to upgrade to a newer, faster PC, but PowerMILL won't cooperate. When starting up PowerMILL the following error message is given:

Unable to run PowerMILL due to the following PAF error:-
PAF Error = 23 Line = 18

The same .paf file and dongle work fine on my old PC.

Has anyone else run into this problem? Any suggestions?

Powermill cannot find your liscense. Make sure you have the directory with the file.

c:\dcam\config\pass you should have a file DCAM.paf in this directory to work. You should have backed up this folder and created it in the config folder.

Bob,

Assuming that MMT-USA's advice doesn't fix your problem then you may want to reinstall the sentinel drivers to allow your PC to recognise the dongle you've plugged in.

I think ( not 100% sure) that these drivers can be found on the CD that you used to install PowerMILL.

BTW: The error code you listed actually means

"No valid workstation code. Check workstation section of file. Check system date, wrong node id on paf or bad access - HP and PC Solaris 2.4 "

Hope this helps somehow

Just a note:

If you are using a USB dongle then the driver on the Powermill CD wont work.

You must download from the net www.rainbow.com

Cheers

Hi Bob
the frenquently cause was the uncorrect format of file paf (i.e "dcam.paf.paf")

Give more attention if your operative system don't show the file format ( you can change the parameter in folder option)
Other possibilities:
-all the folder(i.e. dcam, products, temp,) and subfolder haven't the right access.
-kind of user(user, administrator ...)
-sorry for my english!!!
Bye
CIAO

Hi Bob,
in your post you don't tell if you're installing from an official CD or from a self-install version downloaded from Delcam site.
In this second case you have to remember that on a new PC at least the first installation must be done from an installation CD, because it does more than downloaded version, in example with OS registries. The absence of these setup will make impossible for any Delcam product to know where to find the paf and this may be your problem.

Thanks for all the good suggestions.

What finally worked was the suggestion from zfreitas to get a new Sentinel driver from www.rainbow.com (although, you are redirected to www.safenet-inc.com). Version 7.0 of the driver did the trick.

Thanks!

Thanks Bob