problem milling a surface

[Elad]

Hi,

 

I have to make a surface with a 3 axis machine and i tried to use flowline.

 

The problem is that on this surface i have 2 holes that makes my life hard.

I coudn't find any way to get rid of this holes.

I uploaded the file to cadcam's ftp under the folder 'mcx' with the name 'surface-elad.mcx'

will be happy if someone can help me with this.

 

Thanks

[kkominiarek]

try....create surface - trim/extend - fill holes

 

 

hth

[Elad]

Tried!

It doesn't work

[U.K. PRECISION INC.]

After a quick look at your file, use the level that has the solid model on it, hopefully you have solids on your mc goto the solid menu and the "find features" set to "holes" and set max dia to 300., the in the manager you will see the features found right click on the feature counterbores and thru holes you need to suppress, after surpressing those features ,create a surface from solid and select the faces you need for your toolpath, or use the solid face it self. hope all that wasn't too confusing..

[Lumpnut]

You got mail Elad.

[U.K. PRECISION INC.]

hopefully you still have version 9 as i used it to find the features and it done a better job, ver x didn't find the upper left counterbore so go back to ver 9 and then bring it into ver x after creating the surfaces.

[Zero]

I created the surfaces you needed and put the file up on the FTP (SURFACE-ELAD-EZRA.zip). Unfortunately in this case there's no simple one click button to accomplish what you wanted, it took a little bit of trimming/untrimming and new surface creation to cap those holes.

[Elad]

Thanks guys,

 

I will try to cut it next week

[cadcam]

Moldplus for MCX took me 30 secnds to create the surface to fill the holes. Problem with fill holes is that it is 4 ajoining surfaces no one were they meet.Moldplus Junction surface took car of that.

[Chris Rizzo]

You could always try cranking the gap setting up until the tool stays down over the holes. Quick and dirty, sometimes works sometimes does'nt.

 

hth