Stitching faces

[pip]

Can mastercam stitch together severall faces, to form 1 face..

If not, then what program would you suggest?

[Bunny McRabbit]

Cimatron IT can do it ,not sure that modern Cimatron Elite can ,suppose that not .

But why do you need it if you can get one solid from them and work with solids

Show me the real example and one of us (MPD factor ) may show you the way to do your work

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The From Surfaces function lets you create one or more solids from selected surfaces by "stitching" them together. If you select all surfaces, and edge gaps between surfaces are within a specified tolerance, a closed solid body is created. Otherwise, an open sheet body is created. This function is useful for working on imported files containing surface representations of a solid or for converting newly constructed surfaces that may have been created to replace problem surfaces. Stitching surfaces can result in the same kind of sheet solid as removing one or more faces from a closed solid body.

 

1. Choose Main Menu, Solids, Next menu, From surfaces. The Stitch Surfaces into Solid(s) dialog box opens.

 

2. Set parameters on the dialog box as needed, then choose OK to complete the operation.

 

¨ If you selected Use all visible surfaces, Mastercam immediately converts all visible surfaces into one or more solids.

 

¨ If you cleared Use all visible surfaces, the Select surfaces menu displays. Select one or more surfaces in the graphics window, then choose Done to convert the selected surfaces into one or more solids.

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You can close it and work using boolian operations or to add to it thickness or something

else

 

Bunnie teh waiting for the real part

[cadist]

In short. solid--»next menu--»from surfaces.

it will convert the surfaces to solid or single sheetbody.

HTH

[Fig sign]

Yes ,but you will not get one surface if you

convert sheet solid to surfaces ,even if they lie on the same plane .

Cimatron It makes one complex surface and you can operate with it further

[Trevor Bailey]

If it is for toolpath purposes and you need a single, smooth flowline type path, try using the project toolpath. That should be just as good as a single surface toolpath.