Software crashes when looking at a USB stick
Most likely an issue with the usb stick.Use a fully formatted plain file format and avoid all the stick extras like security as they will conflict with Lasercut software.
Random crashes all the time.
Welcome to the world of windows and microsoft
Saves whether you want it to or not.
You should get the option on closing, simply select "Do you wish to save the project" = "No"
There are loads of problems. When will this appaling software be updated
Pretty much 80% of problems with software crashes are caused by conflicts with hardware or other software. Try running an ATI video card with a soundblaster live, you get clicking noises...no way round it as they share IRQ's and cannot be reassigned. It's the nature of software sadly, some packages just won't work with others.
I used to get asked at Cisco "Why does my £4000 workstation keep crashing" only later did I find out the client had installed 20+ £3.50 s***ware games on it that wern't compatible with the operating system. They still insisted it was the machine and not the crap software.
Games, especially high end recent releases won't allow sharing of driver time (windows doesn't multitask, it switches between tasks quickly unless you are using a multi core / processor set up) so that great game that was installed last week will load it's drivers into memory on boot up (to get the game to start quicker should you wish to play later today) sadly what it doesn't do is check to see if those drivers are accessing the same IRQ's and DMA's you need for the laser driver.
At the moment it will not load another file into the laser cutter. It keeps cutting the last file !!!!
And it will do, look at the small screen, it will tell you what it is going to cut next, if like me you can't be bothered to change the name of each file and just run laser.mol everytime it will cut the last file presented. Simple way is hit esc after each load, this will run the last program you have loaded from the PC.
Much the same way as a PC works, PC's are pretty dumb, they will do EXACTLY what you tell them to, they don't make mistakes they just permit us as users to make a lot of mistakes very accuratly and very quickly
Right click your taskbar at the bottom of the screen, look at the processes that are running.....you may be supprised just what windows loads on boot up...expect problems if your running Norton or Macaffee bloatware as your anti virus.Both packages are the porias of the programming world.They simply don't play well with others
best wishes
Dave