Geometry auto pick

[Reverend Turk]

Isn't there a way to have MC X auto pick ther geometry for operations from a solid? I know other software can detect holes and will automatically detect from the solid. I have a part with a lot of holes for mounting computers to and am being lazy by not wanting to go through and hand pick each hole

[Thad]

Will Solid Drill help? Just a guess. I've never used it.

 

Thad

[5 AX]

Mask on Arc?

[Mike Gates from Barefoot CNC]

Go to toolpaths, drill toolpath, use mask on arc to select all of 1 size of arcs at once,start by picking mask on arc button, pick one arc, now using mouse put window around all the holes of that size , move cursor to top left side of drawing and pressand hold left mouse button now move mouse to make window around all holes of that size and let go of left mouse button and press it again to set window, all the holes of that size should be highlighted now, now hit enter key to project toolpath, if path is not in a good order hit the sort button to set the order in which the holes will be drilled, when it it looks good hit green check to finish.

[kinglouie V]

solid drill works great for me. I usaally mask to a plane and delete what I don't want from there.

[Reverend Turk]

I hav done the mask on arc that Mike suggested and that seems to work pretty good. I am going to try solid drill next because I always say that there is more than one way to skin a cat!!!

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

Jason,

Pro Drill will do what you want but it is a 3rd party add-on. Go to www.moldplus.com for more information. Give me/us a call if you want pricing information.

[kublikahn]

I would use the Solid Drill feature in Mastercam. Solid Drill will analyze every round hole on your solid model (it will also recognize partial holes if you enable the check box). Mastercam will then build a list of all the holes in the Solid Drill dialog box. It will list all of the diameters and depths of all the holes it detects. Once the list is made you would go through the list and delete all of the holes from the list that you do not want Mastercam to process. This is a great feature, similar to ProDrill in a limited form. ProDrill is great, especially if you take the time to setup the forms and processes libraries, but Solid Drill is already built right into Mastercam.

 

-Colin