No wireframe in igs????

[MIKE_B]

Hi all

 

I just recieved a bunch of iges files from a customer. When I bring them in all I have are surfaces with no wireframe. When I do sceen unblank, some of it is there but not all??

 

CNC is this the same bug as linky

 

Thanks Mike

[bellyup]

why not just create wireframe?

[MIKE_B]

There are about 15 files and I really don't want to creat all the wireframe. Right now I am bringing them into V9. They come in fine there and they also come in fine using pro-e.

 

So my fix for now is bringing them into V9 then saving them as X files.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Mike_B,

 

Yes - that sounds like the same problem. Would it be possible for you to send me ([email protected]) one or two of the files so I can verify that its been fixed?

 

Also....

 

"...So my fix for now is bringing them into V9 then saving them as X files..."

 

I think you mean "saving them as V9 files and then bringing those into X" (unless there's a V9 'SaveAs X' function or C-hook that we don't know about yet -which wouldn't necessarily surprise me!).

[bellyup]

pete,

is this related to the masking feature not working right? and if not, has anyone asked about that yet? i searched and didn't find any threads on it.

[MIKE_B]

Pete

 

I sent the files. And yes I am saving them as V9 files then bringing them into X

 

Thanks for taking a look

 

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

bellyup,

 

"...is this related to the masking feature not working right? and if not, has anyone asked about that yet? i searched and didn't find any threads on it..."

 

There are some known issues with the IGES mask like trying to turn off lines and arcs but leaving trimmed surfaces on. Because a surface may be trimmed to lines or arcs, the mask will be ignored. Likewise if turning off notes but leaving dimensions on.

We see it as a low priority issue. Let me know how important it is to you.

[Micromoldmaker]

This should help:

Create/Curve/All Edges/All/Surfaces

[bellyup]

thanks pete,

 

as of now, not a high priority because it works for me the way it is.

but noticed the masking options will revert to 'all on' before the file is imported, so if you wanted just wireframe for ex., you would still get surfs as well.

when i did the same test in v9, the mask worked and the options stayed the way you selected them.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

bellyup,

 

"...when i did the same test in v9, the mask worked and the options stayed the way you selected them..."

 

OK - thanks for the tip. I hadn't heard that masking was working any differently in X than in V9.

 

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Oh, man - I wish they were all that easy. It took me longer to log it in our 'bug log' than it did to fix it. It was a one-line fix and it'll be included in MR2.

 

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[ 02-23-2006, 04:35 PM: Message edited by: Pete Rimkus from CNC Software, Inc. ]

[Steve at JPI]

So I've been "creating curves" for 9 days now, when I could have been importing to V9 and then into X? Does 9 import the non-surfaces as lines & arcs or is everything a NURBS like when you create them in X? I feel like I've been stuck in an M.C. Escher drawing all week!

 

Thanks

 

Steve

[MIKE_B]

Pete

 

Did you get my files and if so does it look like the same bug as logged before?

 

Curious minds wanna know.........

[bellyup]

pete,

 

here's to squashing bugs.

 

thanks

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Mike_B,

Check your e-mail. I think it's all sorted out.

 

bellyup,

Thanks for the cold one!

[Hardmill]

Hey pete you flying out to Westec this year ??

 

 

PEACE

[MIKE_B]

Pete

 

I responded to your e-mail. There still seem to be some issues. Not sure on which end. Let me know.

 

Again thanks for taking a look

 

Mike

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Mike,

I'm not sure quite what those issues are. Can you point out what doesn't look right in the MCX files I sent you?

 

Hardmill,

CNC's doing its best to keep us coders strapped in to our chairs. No WESTEC for me (sigh). It's probably warmer in LA than it is in CT!

[MIKE_B]

Pete,

I brought opened your MCX files and there was still no wireframe. They all had to be unblanked like in my post at the start of this thread.

[MIKE_B]

Pete,

I opened your MCX files and there was still no wireframe. They all had to be unblanked like in my post at the start of this thread.

[JoeM.]

So the best I can surmise from the posts listed is that when importing IGES files to MCX, you do not get the wireframe. It was also mentioned that this issues should be fixed in MR2, which we are running. We are still having this problem. Are there some settings we need to adjust? We have another seat of MCX, for design only, that does not have this issue. We compared many of the settings to ensure they were the same but no luck.

 

Thanks,

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

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"...We have another seat of MCX, for design only, that does not have this issue...."

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Joe,

Is that Design seat at MR2 also?

There is still an outstanding issue in MR2 regarding creation of the wireframe curves used to trim surfaces. That should be the only wireframe you're missing. We got too many complaints about IGES files that contain transformations and subfigures where only the surfaces are references. If this is the case, the surfaces would get moved, but that would then leave the wireframe out hanging in space. So for now, they're not there and you can use the Edge Curve creation function to get them.

[JoeM.]

Pete,

 

The Design version does not have MR2. What I gather you are saying is we have to live with it for now?

[3D WHIZ KID]

Hey, I've had the no-line problem for awhile now also, and all I've been doing is opening the iges file in MCX and I save it as a STEP file, and then re-open, and Viola! lines on every edge.

Seems like this has always been a problem with iges/mastercam, and a couple of other formats as well. So nowdays I just ask customers to send me step files if possible, so I don't have to deal with the noline problem.

[Michael Sullivan]

Can't you just select the Create/Curves/on all edges feature?..........This sould automatically create all your wireframe. Maybe this will help

[Keith Graydon]

change color so edge curves will contrast surfaces, then:

 

quote:

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This should help:

Create/Curve/All Edges/All/Surfaces

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and then:

 

Delete/duplicate/entities

 

 

-Keith