Using chain mask with modify/drag

[Jeremy Grigsby Excelsior Marking]

Can someone else check and see if this happens to them also? modify/drag, select a window with color mask on. My mastercam ignores the color mask and selects everything inside the window.

[Kannon]

Jeremy,

Dont forget to set your color mask before you select entitys, its located just below your use mask. modify drag window set mask, then color select what you want.

 

hth,

Brian

[camguy]

Jeremy, in set mask, select - clear all entities, ( turn them off ) and only check the color box.

[Jeremy Grigsby Excelsior Marking]

Yes thats what i have done. I just used it on translate and it worked fine. I triple checked the settings under mask when i was doing the drag. Everything is set right, it just selects everything. I was trying to select only color 10, just in case it matters. I guess everyone else can do this with no problems.

[El Scotthead]

I also have had this problem. The mask works fine with Translate, but doesn't do anything in Drag--the window selects everything, regardless of the mask.

[camguy]

Jeremy, I noticed that when i select 'window' the default setting is set to "In+intr". If left there all entities are selected. change it to "Inside" only, and it should work. This may be a minor bug, because if i repeat this action, it defaults to In+intr again.

[Kannon]

Jeremy,

I just duplicated your problem and I dont know if its the green or not! Change your color, screen- change colors- then select entities-done. Then I went modify-drag-window-set mask make sure in your attributes your color box is selected,and then pick your color and hit ok.Then I chose inside and rectangled the whole works. Only the color I have masked is highlighted for me.But with the color green it highlighted everything.

Whats up with that?

Just try changing your color of what you want and set your new mask color to that and I believe it will work.

 

hth,

Brian

[Jeremy Grigsby Excelsior Marking]

Oh yeah i forgot about that. It always defaults to in+int. Should we even report these things is mCam X is coming out? Arent they pretty much working from scratch or are there issues like this that will be transfered over, just with a different interface?

[Kannon]

I think I was in such a hurry to try and help Jeromy that when I was running through the steps, I forgot to change it to inside, and not inside and intersecting. That probably would be the reason I duplicated it. +1 to camguy. It dosent seem to have anything to do with the color.

Wow talk about feeling like a horses a**.

Some day I will get it right!

Brian