PowerSHAPE Download Support

To receive your password you need to fill out the registration form on the Delcam website. Your password will be automatically emailed directly to you. It is therefore essential that you provide a valid e-mail address in the registration request. If the e-mail containing your password does not arrive within a few minutes, please e-mail download-support@delcam.com and we will reply as soon as possible. Please note that our offices are closed at weekends, so it may take us up to 48hrs to respond.

This error message means that your graphics card does not provide the correct level of Open GL support for PowerSHAPE, and that PowerSHAPE is seeking functions not provided by your card. Please check that your graphics card is one from the supported list. See the graphics card page for full details of all supported cards, and their appropriate driver versions.

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Just send an e-mail to download-support@delcam.com with your full postal address, and a CD will be sent to you immediately. You will still need to register your copy to receive the necessary password.

There are two installation files in the PowerSHAPE download area. The main one is called PSHAPExxxx.EXE, and is (by far) the larger of the two. This is the actual program. PSLANGxxxx.EXE is a special add-on which allows PowerSHAPE to be run in languages other than English. This error message means that you are attempting to install the language support pack before you have installed PowerSHAPE itself. Install PowerSHAPE first and all will be well.

This problem only affects Windows 2000 installations.

Some PCs are set up to look for library files in the same directory as the main program. Because of the differences between different versions of Windows (NT/98/2000) this can cause problems. To solve this problem, open 'My Computer' and find the folder where the PowerSHAPE executable (program) has been installed. This will be something like -

C:\dcam\product\powershapexxxx\sys\exec

In this folder you should see several files, one of which is called NETAPI32.DLL If you cannot see this file, it is because your computer is set up so as to keep system files hidden from view. Click on 'View' and select 'Options'. Click on the 'View' tab, and click 'Show all files' ON. Locate the file NETAPI32.DLL and click it with the right hand mouse button. From the pop-up menu select Rename. Change the name of the file to NETAPI32_OLD.DLL

PowerSHAPE will now function correctly.

No. PowerSHAPE will by default use the graphics cards’ hardware picking to select items from the screen. Some graphics cards do not provide this function, so it is necessary to turn PowerSHAPE’s software picking mode ON. This is simple to do.

Locate the file PowerSHAPE.con

(usually in C:/Program Files/PowerSHAPExxxx/sys/misc)

and open it with Wordpad (or any other simple text editor). Look for a block of text that reads-

#
# Software picking
# Picking is done in hardware by default. Uncommenting this
# resource may solve some picking-related problems.
#software_picking: yes

Remove the '#' from line 5 of the block, so it reads -

#
# Software picking
# Picking is done in hardware by default. Uncommenting this
# resource may solve some picking-related problems.
software_picking: yes

Save the file and re-start PowerSHAPE-e. All should now be well.