My WCS's are all messed!

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Ack!

 

You know when you click on, persay, right side view, you will change to right side, and at the bottom it will say that you are in right side...? Well, mine doesn't do that anymore.

 

I get GView = Not Saved, WCS = Top, CPlane = Not Saved

 

When I hit the WCS in the bottom right, and click on right side, it changes my WCS to right side, but that's it.

 

When I hit the little red box on the top toolbar for plane changes, and hit right side, I get the new geometry screen coming up and asking me to give a name to my new view.

 

What the heck?!?!

[bellyup]

not sure if your'e asking for help or just lettin off a little steam, but i think that even with some of the confusing changes to wcs and plane functions, a good way to see what is going on is to open the view manager, and see what boxes have been checked for toolpath and/or views. this should let you know if you have mistakenly created toolpath on a different plane than you intended.

 

hth.

[PeterM]

I've had the same problem as Randy, I reported it to CNC and was told that it is a known bug. Hopefully fixed any day now. Peter

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

I suppose I should have been more specific, and said ... HELP! I actually had not created any other planes, but it kept wanting me to.

 

This just surfaced this morning. I have been using WCS custom plane making for a bit now with no problems.

 

PeterM, not that I am glad you have the problem, but I am glad that I am not alone on this. Not so good to know it's a known bug.

 

Thanks for the input, fellows!

[Guest]

I stick with using the view manager. Fail safe method to make sure you've got all the information/planes correct. Assign it to a hot key of your liking or right mouse button and it's even better.

[Ray Culver]

Hello boys.

 

GENERAL INFO YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW: When you startup Mastercam or do a File/New, the standard views (TOP, RIGHT, etc) are all created for you at an origin of X0Y0Z0. These origins can be changed (against my better judgement, but quite a few customers wanted to be able to, so we allow them).

 

Views have 2 components: an orientation (the matrix) and the 3D point defined as its origin. They are not able to be separated; create a TOP view with an origin of X0.0001 Y0 Z0 and you will be required to save this new view as it is different than a TOP @ 0,0,0.

 

QUESTION: did you change the origin of your TOP view that's being used as your WCS? In other words, is the origin not X0Y0Z0 ?

 

If so and your WCS is set to this TOP view (say with an origin of X2.5Y0Z0), then if you then go select the view named RIGHT, then the system will look for an existing view in RIGHT view orientation with the same origin of 2.5,0,0. If an existing view matching both the orientation and origin is not found, it asks you to save one.

 

THE BOTTOM LINE: The system will always want to create a new view when it cannot find an existing matching to satisfy your selection (except when selecting for a graphics view, which we don't save views for).

[j.nguyen]

I Had An Issue With My Planes Not Staying Relative To My WCS. I Hit = In My View Manager And Then Went To My Top View And Sometimes My Contruction View Would Change, And Sometimes It Wouldn't. No One Else Seems To Have The Same Problem When I Had Made A Post.

[Zaner]

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I Had An Issue With My Planes Not Staying Relative To My WCS.

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It seems to happen when I copy a WCS and hit the = sign, everything is ok. Then I try to do some dimensioning. And the WCS seems to switch back to Top View. Even though I never changed it..

[Chris Rizzo]

quote:

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Went To My Top View And Sometimes My Contruction View Would Change

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Alot of seemingly random view changing can be attributed to these being toggled:

 

settings > CAD Settings

 

"update t and c plane when changing G view"

 

"reset c plane to top when swithcing to iso gview"

[Zaner]

Thanks Italian'