Shady situation

[Kohler Joe]

I am working on a tombstone fixture with multiple parts. My problem is every time I try shading it takes at least 5 mins. to shade. If I make a change to geometry, another 5 mins to shade.It is a Pro_E converted model. I am new to Mastercam and would appreciate any advice.

THANKS!!!!

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Joe !

Welcome to the forum !

try tweak this setting

screen->surf.display->shading ::>chord height to bigger value

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. Under Parameters, specify any of the following settings:

 

¨ Chord height. Enter a tolerance value for calculating surface shading. A lower tolerance produces smoother, more precise shading results.

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HTH

WTHH

[Toolfab]

Welcome to the Forum Joe, nice to see another cheese head in here!!

 

Pooh gave you good advice try that out and let us know if that helped!!

 

[Kohler Joe]

Tried changing from .001 chord height to .020. No noticable difference. Part details look very jagged. Could it possibly be in the graphics card?

[KJS]

Welcome aboard Joe, I'm just down the road from you in Sheboygan.

[Greg McKay]

can you upload or email the file?

[Kohler Joe]

Thanks for the welcome.

It still hasn't finished shading from my last response. I suppose smashing the monitor into multiple pieces would not help???

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

How many surfaces do you have ,what`s Ur computer specs ?

How much memory U allocate for database

Also try this

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The File, RAM-saver option speeds system operation by freeing available RAM (memory) by permanently removing all deleted entities from the current part database to compact it and by regenerating the display list to speed graphic display. You can also automatically delete duplicate entities if you want.

Important: After you use RAM-saver, you can no longer use Undelete to restore deleted entities.

After you run RAM-saver, Mastercam tells you if it changed the database, the amount the database decreased, and asks you if you want to save the changed database. If you choose to save it, you can save it with the same name, which overwrites the original file, or you can save the changed file with a new name.

 

1. Choose Main Menu, File, Next menu, RAM-saver.

 

2. When prompted, choose one of the following:

 

¨ Yes to delete duplicate entities in addition to running RAM-saver.

 

¨ No to run RAM-saver without deleting duplicate entities.

 

¨ Cancel to quit the RAM-saver function.

 

3. If prompted, choose either:

 

¨ Yes to save the changed database. The Specify File Name to Write dialog box opens. Enter a file name, then choose Save.

 

¨ No to quit the function without saving the changed database.

 

Note:

 

¨ You can set the amount of RAM allocated to the database on the Allocations tab of the System Configuration dialog box. You can access this dialog box by choosing Screen, Configure from the Main Menu.

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HTH

WTHH

[Kohler Joe]

Greg,

the file is 90,000 bytes. I will try e-mailing. But I think out company has limited size of our e-mails.

[Toolfab]

Joe, you could try using the FTP site that Cadcam lets us use. The link is at the top of the page, then we can all look at it and see whats up....

 

 

Just a thought.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

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But I think out company has limited size of our e-mails.

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Zip it !

Or better Rar it !

And put in on FTP

HTH

WTHH

[Kohler Joe]

tried ram saver still the same problem, also allocated ram. 400,000 bytes

My system is a Dell 530 workstation with 1024 mb ram. Still trying to shade.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

400,000 bytes or Kbytes ?

 

400,000 bytes that`s nothing !

[Kohler Joe]

put on ftp site, file is 1033096_2sides still loading should be done in a few minutes

[Kohler Joe]

400,000 kbytes, my mistake

[Kohler Joe]

Mike Mattera will be at Kohler tomorrow, maybe he can take a look at my system and settings.

[Kohler Joe]

ftp transfer is complete!!!

[Quickmike]

Sometimes different video cards can be a problem. Check your memory allocations in screen/configure/

[Code_Breaker]

Hey Smokin' Joe, welcome to the forum.

 

Please zipped file and put into the MC9 folder. I tried to download it, but my server kicked it out after 23 minutes (only had two more to go).

 

Code_Breaker

[cadcam]

Hi folks I have Zipped this file and moved it into the MC9 dir.

 

the file zipped is 65megs so you know.

 

I gad to bump allocations up to 128,000

or it taxed my hard drive when bring in.

after that came in fast and no issues.

 

also it still takes about a min half to shade the hole thing.

[Code_Breaker]

Jay,

 

When I got kicked off, I got a "time out" warning. Now, I cannot access the FTP site. Is this on my end or yours??

 

Code_Breaker

[cadcam]

COde were just downloading it?

If so sorry it was me that forced you out so I could zip it and move the file.

 

I also installed an update on the server that I had to do a reboot.

 

it is now back

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

If you have a lot of surfaces and I suppose so -

In shading settings select shade surfaces->selected surfaces and shade them by window ,for example .

Once I had smthn like 100000 surfaces and this speed shading radically

HTH

WTHH

[Code_Breaker]

Jay,

 

Thanks, I am there . . . question--beside the zipped file of 63.3MB, there is a MC9 file with same name of 30.7MB. The original file was 89MB. Before I download, why the different?

 

 

Code_Breaker

[Jayson Kramer]

Code I have to go look I am not sure.