twisty surfaces

[rjearl]

Is anyone else having problems with X2 twisting surfaces when rotating or mirroring surfaces? I was told by Mastercam QC that there is a problem and it should be addressed with X2 MR1. I'm just surprised that there don't see anyone posting about it. I do alot of surface building / electrode pulling, and this is SLOWING ME DOWN.

How soon till MR1 ???

[Hardmill]

Welcome to the forum

 

Any chance you could share an example ?? Can't say I

remember hearing of this before.

 

 

PEACE

[rjearl]

I'd love to share a simple before / after example; newbie question....do I put them on the FTP site? The link in the FAQ does not seem to work.

[Guest]

At the top of the page, there is a link that say "cadcam's FTP site" click on that it should take you to the FTP server

[rjearl]

The FTP Server does not seem to open at this time, for me. Could someone else try the link??

[Guest]

Works OK,

 

Are you using IE7?

 

If you are at work does your work block FTP connections?

[rjearl]

Yes I am using IE7, and I am guessing you are right about the work / FTP connection.I did not think of that, I'll have to go strangle the NET Nerd.

[rjearl]

OK, I checked in with our NET Police and they can't open the link either, we have no FTP restrictions. I can ZIP it and E-Mail the examples to those interested, otherwise I'll try the FTP tomorrow.

But for now its time to go home and shovel snow!!

[Guest]

It's something in IE7 likely, this forum is loaded with people having problems, some get in OK but others cannot connect no matter what they try.

 

I'll be glad to put them up for you if you want to send them over.

 

2 suggestions, download and install FileZilla or see if it is possible to rollback to IE6

[Thee Rickster ™]

Welcome rjearl!

 

mail it to me, John Paris or Hardmill and somebody

will put it on the ftp site.

 

 

Rick

[rjearl]

John you have mail. re: Twisty surfaces

Did I call you Jim....sorry.

Thanks for the welcome folks, I got tired of fighting things alone so I thought I'd try here.I've been using Mastercam for about six years and the MCX/MCX2 transition has about killed me. Our reseller is just a salesman,.....no help.

[Guest]

Are these file X2 or MR2, that's determine which folder they go into

[rjearl]

X2 using the ZIP2Go utility.

[Guest]

rib a and rib b files are in the X2 folder

[Glenn Bouman]

Do an Edit, Convert Nurbs on all the surfaces before mirroring and you will be fine.

[rjearl]

Thanks Glenn,

That works to fix them "IF" I catch them prior to programming. Is it something in my settings that causes this? We have several people working with Mastercam and I can't guarantee that everyone will do this everytime....just one more thing to remember.

Anyway thanks, I can't believe our reseller and QC@Mastercam could not give me such a quick fix in the last several months of communication.Total dissapointment in the support system.

[Guest]

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Total dissapointment in the support system.

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WOW

 

This is NOT going to be pretty

[Glenn Bouman]

My quess is you are reading files from Pro-e using IGES. See if you can change to step or the direct Pro-e translator or change the IGES export in Pro-e to output as nurbs surfaces.

 

This came up a few months ago.

 

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...=1;t=023292;p=0

[crazy^millman]

Well Glenn if you checked his Hasp you would see he does not have solids which mean they very limited on what they can do with them IMHO, thus limits their total ability to do manufacturing, but that is Mastercam and the Dealer fault that the company cheaped out.

 

Yeah why in the hell would the dealer and Mastercam have have acutally peopleworking their not servants at your becken call.

[Glenn Bouman]

Having solids has nothing to do with the issue.

[rjearl]

Not pretty is my boss riding my @#$ about programming problems. I just know I've been trying very hard to resolve some issues using the given resources and have a stack of e-mails about an inch thick that have not included much in the way of help, mostly just...please be patient we're working on it.

[travis meyer]

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My quess is you are reading files from Pro-e using IGES. See if you can change to step or the direct Pro-e translator or change the IGES export in Pro-e to output as nurbs surfaces.

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These files come from Cocreate One Space Designer

I wright them out as step files and import them in to Mcam X2, could there be a setting some where that i need to click to convert these to nerbs surfaces,

[rjearl]

To clarify, most if not all of the problem surfaces were not imported from outside Mastercam. Mostly they are "patches" and user created surfaces used in building electrodes.

In addition I get a weird association that I can't get rid of as follows. When I extend the lines used to create a surface, then save & reopen the file, the surface then extends to match the line.Is there a simple setting I am missing.

[Glenn Bouman]

Go settings, Configuration, Cad Settings and set the Spline/Surface creation type to NURBS

[rjearl]

Thanks Glenn, that seems to work as a remedy fix.

Problem is, we manipulate and build a huge amount of geometry to create electrodes in Mastercam; and I can't guarantee that we'll catch all the twisted surfaces all the time prior to programming.

Are most people using Mastercam only for the toolpaths and receiving the "pulled" electrodes from other software?

Let's hear from the EDM Crowd.