mastercam reverse engineering

[jeremy83]

Is there any way to recover a lost program in mastercam, when all you have is the G-code? Will mastercam convert code into a program?

[cadcam]

The closet you can get is old style reverse post but then once you have that you have to backplot and save that as geo .now all you have is centerline of the path.
So really NO. Sorry

[jeremy83]

ok thanks anyway.

[neilw20]

If you don't backup your work for a week, you must be prepared to lose a weeks work. Hardware fails, vibrations make heads touch disks, power glitches corrupt. We all MUST lose things. Ever tried to recover files from a backup? For instance, if verify is not turned on and you write to a floppy is it really good data on the floppy? No read check is done normally by the operating sytem. Only the operator!
It is just a matter of time, and how much we are prepared to lose.
Usually more speed, less haste.
My solution is to use 2 hard drives, and hope they BOTH don't get smoked by a crook power supply. That's the risk that's ok for me. How's your risk management?
(end rant)