All Levels turning visible?

[Charles Davis]

Has anyone had Mastercam suddenly make all Levels visible (especially when using curve5ax)?

 

 

I've checked Open GL off, graphics accel down, latest video drivers, etc.

[Mike Whitten CAD/CAM Contractors]

Like when you are regenerating it?

[Mike Whitten CAD/CAM Contractors]

What happens to me is the solids from the other layers appear when regenerating.

 

Mike

[crazy^millman]

Yep all the time. I was told to do a Ram sever in here soem time ago did not help. I found it best to have olny one soild when doing most 5 axis toolpaths. If you have 10 solids in the file then all 10 will apper if trying to pick it then when you go back all the levels are on and it is a real pain in the but with 20 to 40 levels on. What I have been doing latley is saving the soild for the toolpath to a seperate file and then doing toolpaths on that file verse the file where I did all of my model work to create the solid of soild for different features on the part of family of part that the files may all be part of. I hear the WCS call A coming but this seem to have more ot do with having more than one soild in the file that aynthing and no ramsever does not make it go away soemthing here seems ot be making it turn on all the layers not sure why but it does.

[Mike Whitten CAD/CAM Contractors]

It is quite an annoyance, but I do not believe that it affects the code.

 

It happens to me on just about all or all surface machining apps. I logged it a while back. I will check at work in the morning and post the Bug# so that others may make inquiries.

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

[Mike Whitten CAD/CAM Contractors]

This was logged on 2-23-04 as:

 

"solids appearing from a layer that in not visible"

 

Bug #25081

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

[Charles Davis]

This is happening in Swarf 5-axis machining with curves and surfaces.

 

When he picks a surface and curve, all levels become visible; go to levels mgr and all are checked visible. Ramsaver and Regenerate do not help.

[Mike Whitten CAD/CAM Contractors]

Oops, sounds like that is something different.

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

[Tim Johnson]

This used to happen to me years ago on regen and I stopped it (2 1/2D/3D work) but don't remember how. Do you use the tool display on the tool Parameters page in the operations manager? I used to but don't anymore. It might be that's why.

 

[ 07-20-2004, 12:30 PM: Message edited by: Tim Johnson ]

[crazy^millman]

Same thing here Charles been that way for the longest time. I am doing a part today getting the same problems. I just save one soild with nothing else on any other layers to another file and then do my toolpaths then save that op then import into the orignal if I want them to be combined a pain in the arse but it works. Oh doenst seem to do it with surfaces as much with solids I don't know if it is soemthing in the solid kernal or what.