Stock flip

[Edgerr]

The other day I programmed a part with a flip in it and it worked fine. Now I'm using the program as a short cut to program another part and I cann't seem to get the flip to work. Initially the active spindle and geometry sections were both inactive. By deleting the tool path and recreating it I was able to select the new geometry. But I keep getting "Stock not defined in either spindle". I've checked the job setup and everything looks fine. I got the same message when I tried to flip a sample part. My only success was when I start up a file from scratch. Any thoughts?

 

Thanks,

E

[dan m]

what works for me sometimes but not always is just deleting the face cut and redoing it.

hth

[Joels]

I could not get stock flip to work right. Once i made the geometry and did the stock flip if i wanted to make changes i couldnt figure out how to do that so i would have to start over. so we decided not to use stock flip.

[chris m]

Editing a file that uses Stock Flip is a nightmare, it never seems to work properly after you screw with it. Your best bet is to delete the stock flip op and start from there.

 

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[Edgerr]

Thanks Chris, that worked. I deleted the flip and everything after instead of just the flip. Then recreated the flip. It worked the first time.

 

Thanks,

E

[chris m]

No problem. I don't know why that is the way to do things but nothing else seems to work.

 

I still don't understand why your verify isn't working like we detailed in your other thread; it should.

 

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[Edgerr]

I'm working with the stl now. Its closer. I'll keep working on it and let you know.

 

E