Sorting Chains?

[guitar]

Why is X9 auto sorting solid edge contour chains that I picked individually? Now I have to go back and reorganize what X9 has screwed up. 

[Machineguy]

What type of operation are you seeing this?

[guitar]

Contour of 12 circular bosses. Chaining each boss in the order in which I want to machine. Then MC decides to criss cross the chains all over. Chaining single, solid edges. Each boss is an individual solid entity.

[Machineguy]

See what the sort options in the chain box says. I wonder if it was set to "ON" when X9 was finaled as a program. Some programmers for the software leave things on. It can really mess up our end if you don't use it that way.

I have X0 loaded but I'm in a big project right now, so I'll stay with X8 for now.

 

Machineguy

[guitar]

There is no on/off in the sort options. And when I try to sort, I get a mess again. Another thing I notice is when you try to override the default values in the "Reference position" section by selecting "from machine", after you close the dialog and refresh to tool path it goes back to the default values unless you manually type in the values you desire. Also having problems with depth cuts on the dyna optirough not working properly. Thanks for the input MG.

[Machineguy]

In the drill point manager, the "SORT State"  tells you if you have changed the sort.. Its either on or off. ( and yes your right,  you can't turn it off once you've done a sort)

That's a pain.

In the contour path manager, your stuck. I don't why it did it on its own.

 

Anybody got any answers? That can be a pain.

 

Machineguy