Working with Solids...

[bellyup]

if your reference points can be rotated (created) before tilting, you could then select them and create new wcs for each one. then tilt individually. ???

 

 

edit: if your pocket geometry can be rotated from a conventional positioning(leftside wcs/top view in this case.), then you could just repeat the process you used to create the 'pocket' wcs however many times you need to.

 

if this is the case, then the geometry rotation would be a transform/rotate function, around the origin while 'leftside' wcs is active.

 

[ 06-27-2006, 10:20 AM: Message edited by: bellyup ]

[Kyle Waters]

That's my issue, I want to rotate it around, but in order to make the compounds correct, I have to tilt then rotate, and that's where all my confusion lies....

[bellyup]

ok. rotate around what?

[Kyle Waters]

I keep messing up. I want to take the part, and from the front view rotate the part -49.093 degrees about the -Y- axis (c-plane and WCS set to TOP). Then after the initial rotation, if you were looking at the right side face, I want to then rotate the entire part clockwise 130.062 degrees around what would be the -Z- axis. After that I want to set my construction plane to the Top, but move my zero point to the intersection of the curve at -Y0- on the tilted rotated part.

[bellyup]

so maybe its just the wcs stuff thats messin with you? if so, why not transform the part itself, since it sounds like you know exactly what you want. just do it one step at a time.

 

so you could transform it and do a 'save as'. then transform it again and do another 'save as'. etc. till you have all the positions as complete files. maybe not the most efficient way, but if it works, thats ok.

[Tom Brown from Stork Inc.]

you might want to make sure that you go to your view manager, and select the newly created view before rotating it again, or you may end up with something that's incorrect. (I've learned this the hard way!)

[Hardmill]

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(I've learned this the hard way!)

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Thats understandable considering who you work with.

 

 

What are you using to create your WCS ?? Geom ??

Probably easiest this way.

 

 

PEACE

 

 

PEACE

[Hardmill]

It would be wayyyy easier if I could see a print.

I rotated your part the way you described

 

You got a print you could share ??

 

 

PEACE

[Kyle Waters]

Ok, I put up a .tif drawing under the same name. This is a right hand drawing, making a left hand part. Here's the folder:

/Mastercam_forum/MCX_Files/asx445l1024m.tif