Mastercam Animator - new chook to animate your 3D models

[Gilberto]

We are developing Mastercam 3D Animator.

Our target are Mold and Tool Makers.

 

If you have any ideas to use this technology in other applications, please post here.

 

Here is a simple mold animation in PDF 3D.

Mold-Animation-simple.pdf

 

Load the file, Click on Picture to Enable 3D and rotate. Click "Open" to start mold simulation.

Use Acrobat Reader v7.

 

Any comments and ideas much appreciated!

(the stranger the better

[Guest]

Maybe I am blind, but I don't see an open button....

[MIKE_B]

This is nice Gilberto but I don't see an open button either?

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

size the window so you see the entire pdf sheet.

[MIKE_B]

Thanks Steve

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Gilberto

I sent an email with the error I get when I click open.

Thanks

[Gilberto]

Don,

 

Make sure that you have Acrobat Reader V7,

and first click on the picture to enable 3D.

 

When you click on picture,

can you Rotate the 3D mold?

[Zero]

very cool!

[Guest]

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very cool!

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I agree, very cool stuff

 

[KCollins]

I'd love to use this to make a company brochure. Add a little interactivity to it. What is the backwards compatability? Does it display just a picture if you dont have version 7 of adobe?

[Richard Bechard]

very cool

[betts]

Very cool Gilberto!

[Leif Johnson from MICO Inc]

Gilberto,

Do you have any type of help file as to creating the animation stuff?

 

Thanks

Leif

[Colin Gilchrist]

Gilberto,

 

We might be interested in using the 3D animator to do setup/part load documents for our 5 Axis routers. Do you have any information on what it takes to create/maintain the animation from Mastercam? The other thing that comes to mind would be animations of our toolpath verifications. I have proposed an idea internally in our organization to create a video(animation) of our toolpaths from our verifcation software. We use Vericut and we would like the operators to be able to play back the animation of the verified toolpath without needing an additional seat of vericut(and without having to train the operators how to use vericut). Being able to create an animation showing the tool, toolpath, part, and fixture would be super cool. Even if it would just have the toolpath trace(backplot) and the fixture it would be beneficial.

 

I noticed that as the animation of the mold seperation was occuring I was able to pan, zoom, and rotate the model. This functionality would be stellar if we could do the same thing with either a Backplotted toolpath or with a simulation from Vericut so our operators would know what moves the machine is going to make before they dry run a program. Currently our operators run the machines in Dry Run for each new part. Because they don't know what to expect, they run the machine very slowly and take a lot of time for the Dry Run.

 

By the way, we don't do any surface roughing on our 5 axis machines. We mostly do 5 axis trimming, so most of our programs aren't that complex. There is the occasional exception, but for the most part our programs are under 10,000 lines of code.

 

If you would like more feedback or are interested in discussing possible applications of your technology, feel free to contact me directly.

 

Best regards,

 

Colin Gilchrist

IRC NC Programming

Mastercam Focal

The Boeing Company

[email protected]

[Mike-T]

Colin, Vericut can create Avi's now, right ?

they do get pretty big though..

[Colin Gilchrist]

Yes you can create a video, but with the Animation option, you might be able to rotate, pan, and zoom to get a different perspective on the simulation. That would be way better than just a video.

 

Thanks for the info though...

 

Colin Gilchrist

The Boeing Company

[Colin Gilchrist]

By the way, we have Camtasia Studio. For $120 its the best video recording and editing software I've seen. Its easy, cheap, and quick to learn. I also bought Techsmith's (makers of camtasia) program called Snagit. Its a screen capture software for about $40 that is really nice for capturing screen shots of what ever you want to capture. Well worth the money.

 

-Colin

[Gilberto]

The animation option, is being developed to create industry specific animations with "one click". Currently we only support Molds.

But its possible to do any other application

see file c:mcamx-mr2pdf3dtemp.anim

code:

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  name   time/seconds   translate x y z     rotate   scale 

"anim1(z)", 0.0 , 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0

"anim1(z)", 3.0 , 0.0, 0.0, 50.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0

"anim1(z)", 5.0 , 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0

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About Setup sheets/toolpath, we have a few requests to include toolpaths in the PDF3D.

We plan to do it in 2007. Toolpath will be static. We can control what to display using the new history tree in Acrobat V7.08. see picture

 

http://www.grandesoft.com/download/Install-PDF3D-XMR2.zip