Aborting shading

[BernieT]

Does anybody know of a way to abort the shading process once it is started?

BerTau

[d0gFartz]

wail on the ESC key

[lou]

Not that I know of without stoping mastercam completley.If I know the file is saved then I just hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete and End Task. I would be intrested to know if there is a better way also.

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Lou Wilson

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[BernieT]

Thanks d0gFartz,

Wailing on the esc key does stop the shading, but I sure get some strange results.

I end up with partially shaded parts and when reshading, one or more surfaces disappear into the background color.

I'll keep trying and see what happens.

BerTau

[Mike Harrington from Macdac Eng.]

BerTau

what I do is save the file in its unshaded state. That will solve that little problem for you!

[cadcam]

Sorry CadCamGuru that does not work.

if you set up in the "config" to autoshade next time you get it it will shade it.

so what you need to to do is turn of autoshade.

before getting the file.

And this is only good for file get.

so if you strat to to shade a file by useing "ALT S" and it starts you need to hit the "Esc" key and it will stop shading the file.

This will now show partial shade and the rest not.

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[BernieT]

""you need to hit the "Esc" key and it will stop shading the file.

This will now show partial shade and the rest not.""

 

Cadcam,

now try to shade and unshade several times, what I find is that now at least one surface 'disappears' and the only way I can get it back is to 'get' the file again!

BerTau

[gstephens]

Actually if you change the sahding tolerance (make it large) it has to recalc the surfs. If you then change it back it will recalc again at the right density.