MC wants to drill holes 2x

[John13]

Hello all,

 

 

I'm trying to drill holes and for some reason, MC wants to drill all my holes 2 times. I tried squashing geometry, deleting duplicate entities (none found), and even manually selecting the holes to drill and it still doubles the number of holes I selected and verifies drilling 2 times. I hope this is clear enough to understand. I did delete the hole and refresh the screen to double check that there wasn't a duplicate, and then undelete and that stopped it from drilling twice, but I don't want to do that with all the holes. Any suggestions what to look for. This all started just this morning. Thanks for any help..

 

Nothing has changed post wise and I made very similar parts 2 weeks ago.

[M. Anderson]

Just a thought -

 

Could it possibly be PECK drilling the holes, instead of drilling them twice?

 

Like I said - just a thought?

 

Later,

 

Mark

[John13]

It's not pecking, I have 40 holes to drill and in the op. manager it says geometry-(80) points. I'm totally stumped.

[PE @ IHS]

Did you try screen/ combine views?

[M. Anderson]

Try going to "Screen" - "Statistics" - see how many points are shown.

 

Mark

[John13]

I freakin give up, I just left my computer for a few minutes, came back and everything 's working fine now.

 

 

What does screen/ combine views do? I've never used that before..

[John13]

Thanks for the replies, I still don't know what happened.

[HEAVY METAL]

delete duplicate entities. you might have points on top of each other.

[John13]

I tried delete duplicate entities, (it didn't find any) , The hole drilling got better on its own, Mastercam in general has just been really strange here today. I have so many screwy things going on I don't know what's happening. My geometry changes if I turn a different level on or off, It's doing some strange $hit today, I can't wait til 3:00 so I can get out of here.

[Kannon]

John13

Once in a while mine gliches,

Power down the pc and power it back up. See if you have the same problem.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

In drill parameters , options / filter out duplicates.

Is your model is a Solid...

They need some Baby sitting compared to Surface models when you are picking drill points.

[John13]

It's all 2D, no solids, no surfaces, just lines. Like I said, it's got me totally confused today. I got thru what needed done today, just with a few choice words thrown out to releive the stress, good thing I'm in the room by myself.

[Lee.]

Mark,

 

Just for Reference, Pecking holes will not show on backplot as it is a Canned Cycle, only the machine will actually know what is going to happen.

 

Mastercam in this case does not know.

 

HTH