Transfering operations

[Reverend Turk]

I have been working on a file for some time now and today I get a revision sent to me. I would like to transfer all my toolpaths from the old drawing to the new one but can't seem to figure out how. When I try to export the data everything is ok but when I try to import there are alot more operations than the 15 that I am trying to bring in. Any help would be great. Why can't I just copy and paste ops???? That would be the easiest but I guess you would have to associate it with geometry huh??

[Thad]

In the new file, right click in the toolpath manager-Import-click the folder icon and browse to the folder that contains the MCX file that you want to import from.

 

Thad

[Lee.]

I used to import ops from the job set-up in V9

 

I looked in the docs and found nothing about Job-set-up, import ops?

 

Anyone?

[Hardmill]

Why dont you just merge the new drawing ??

 

 

PEACE

[Thad]

Lee,

 

It's now incorporated into the import option.

 

Thad

[J Coulston]

+1 merge and save as

 

Copy paste MC? ?

[Reverend Turk]

I just went and merged the tow drawings. That seemed to be the easiest.

 

As far as colors go...why does my drawing look like crap!!! It doesn't look anything like all the nice examples that I see on the website. It is hard to explain but most of the time it is green and when I roll the cursor over it it turns into this shattered glass type pattern with a white colcor mixed in with the green.

 

I would like to have a nice model to show the guys what the process will look like. Something that is more true to the actuall part!

[Jack Neelands™]

jason ...when you export them do you give them a name?....and when you import your toolpaths do you click on only the toolpaths with that name?

 

 

[Lee.]

Jason,

 

Could be that your model consistes of a solid and surfaces?

 

Try doing a screen stats and see what the results are.

 

If it is both surfs and solid, do an Alt-E and pick only solid, then see what that looks like.

 

Let us know.

[Reverend Turk]

One of the problems is that I have merged the drwings so now I have two solids and can't seem to get rid of the old one and keep the new. Everytime I try to Alt-E and pick a solid (because I have two where there should only be one)it picks the old drawing. It isn't that big of a deal but the students that I am doing this work for would like to see better graphics.

 

Obviously I am somewhat new to this and I am trying to log as much seat time as possible.

 

 

Thanks for everyones help

[Thad]

Put them on different levels.

 

Or you could change colors. As we say in the tool and die trade, red is dead...blue is new.

 

Thad

[Reverend Turk]

Thad...

 

 

This may sound dumb but now that they are merged how in the hell do I pick just one to put on a nother level???

[Reverend Turk]

I think I have it..I can zoom in and click the old solid. When I zoom in far enough it doesn't register the new solid so I can then pick the old one and move it to a new layer

[heeler]

If I don't need the old, but want to keep the toolpaths, I just delete everything before I do the import. If I want to keep it, I change the levels to something that will not be used with the new imported geo, before I do the import.

 

HTH

 

Glenn

 

PS I do this alot with similar items. If you have a good process, you just need the new geo. Your tools, feeds, speeds and offsets are already set up. You can really fly thru parts by just selecting the geometry this way.

[Reverend Turk]

That is a good tip because I have alot of parts that are similar on this project so this will help to speed up the process!!!

 

Gotta say that I love this forum!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Hardmill]

Delete first as stated or just do it through the

solids manager. You can click through (hi-light) and delete.

 

 

PEACE