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Broken Chains


MachineHead05
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Hey all, I'm extremely new to Mastercam, but I have been using BobCad for the past year, so I have a little understanding of designing geometry to convert into G-Code. I upgraded to MasterCam2018, and I'm stuck on my first drawing ever on it. I imported a .jpg file and scaled it to my requirements. I also outlined the image with a rectangle the size of my work piece, and went to go develop toolpaths for my NC. The problem I have is when I choose a pocket feature and input all my machine data, at the end of that I click the check mark and it comes up with a warning message - Warning Not All Boundaries Are Closed. Select Open Pockets or Close Chains. I understand what that means and why it's a problem, but I have ran into a wall trying to accomplish those operations and get my image cleaned up. Really hoping someone wouldn't mind helping me through this one.

Thank You,

-Scott 

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1st I simplify splines (wireframe-drop-down at refit spline-select simplify-select all geometry-delete original) This might take some time.

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2nd transform-project to z 0

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3rd shift plus left click on entity to see if chains are closed, find breaks in chain and trim entities or draw lines or arcs  to close chains.

I hope this gets you going in the right direction

 

 

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