Dynamic Rotation

[wendy]

For some reason when one of my machinists posts a program and he goes back in the drawing to rotate it, it rotates verrrry stiff. This is a fairly good computer too. PIII 600Mhz, 192 MB RAM. I've adjusted the database allocations also for optimal performance, but am just stumped on this one! Every thing else in MasterCAM runs fairly smoothly and quickly. Unfortunately, the only way he can get the rotation to flow smoothly again is to exit out of Mastercam and enter back in again. I've also installed the lastes patches (8.1.1). Anyone have any ideas?

[TOOLDEV]

You may have tried this already,

screen - configure - screen

number of entities for dynamic rotation,

mine is set to 3000

[Bill]

If your geometry has alot of entities like more than your dynamic is set for in screen-config it will bog down, but if your graphics card is not capable of rotating the amount alotted in a speedy fashion it will also bog down.

For any cutter paths I put on surface data, I usually save that file by itself with only surfaces and boundaries. The boundaries I put on a seperate level so I can turn them off. This makes rotation less difficult for my computer.

Just my thoughts.

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B. Henderson

OMEGA PlASTICS

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opinc.com

[cadcam]

I am with you bill, I all was put my surfaces on another level to be able to turning then on and off.

I allocate 4000 enites for rotation on my system.

useing a 32meg 3dlabs card

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jay/ aka cadcam

Precision Programming

cnc programming &

Predator & mastercam reseller

email: [email protected]

web: www.ppcadcam.com

[tooling]

the graphics card will make or brake you. make sure you are not running any other programs. 192mb of ram is ok if you are only runing MC. but it is low if things are running in the back ground. windows nt is a big +