TRANSLUCENT IN A CIMATRON WAY

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Hi!

I like how this feature is implemented in Cimatron .

You can make any solid or surface translucent

You can look inside everything .

In Mastercam translucent not gives you much ,cause ALL is translucent.

I need the body translucent and insert regular shaded to see where the problem is !

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Like this

 

[Guest]

screen >> shade setting >> turn on shading, the translucent option is available further down the dialog box

 

In verify you can use translucent but you have to use an .stl as defined stock

[Guy Arseneault]

In ver9, you could select which surfaces you wanted translucent.

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Guys .

I know it

What I want is this

I need to shade some solids not transparent ,and some transparent

I want to check some solids against others and some toher things

I want it as in the image

I want in model make one solid face transparent and all the others not

Alas !

I had it in Cimatron and it was great !

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In ver9, you could select which surfaces you wanted translucent.

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No ,you can not

You can only make them all selected translucent .

You can not make translucent and regular shade both

[Guest]

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I need to shade some solids not transparent ,and some transparent

I want to check some solids against others and some toher things

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No Alex, that is not something you can do in MCAM

any version

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No Alex, that is not something you can do in MCAM

any version

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That`s exactly what many others can do .

And I ask myself :

Why I need to use translucent if i can not see nothing as I need

It gives me not too much

Well ,in Cimatron it was a great way to check things

In Mastercam it lacks a lot

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Alex try adobe 3dpdf its free for 30 days and imports almost any cad format including catia and exports out to 3 or 4 formats. It can do this for you and much more. We are going to purchase this here it under $1000.

[Guy Arseneault]

My bad. Should've checked before opening my mouth.

 

But that would be a nice feature though.

[robk]

I remember mentioning that years ago Alex...

No such problem in UG

Sorry, but I just couldn't resist

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

Topsolid has this feature. It is extremely handy. In fact, I can assign a transparency value from 0-10 on any solid entity to achieve great visibility control.

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

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Alex try adobe 3dpdf its free for 30 days and imports almost any cad format including catia and exports out to 3 or 4 formats. It can do this for you and much more. We are going to purchase this here it under $1000.

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Alex have you looked at this?

[peon]

That option is an excellent feature in UG. We shade our part models solid and the trode models translucent. Therefore it is easy for me to see what will be getting burned or machined. I certainly hope Mastercam looks into this feature. It would save alot of time here rather than bothering the designer everytime I wanna know what surfaces are getting burned.

[Guest]

While I agree it's a nice feature before we get this the one feature out of NX I'd like to get NOW is stock recognition.

[cobra95kev]

John,

What exactly do you mean about stock recognition?

 

Thanks

Kevin C.

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I'd like to get NOW is stock recognition.

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yes!

[Guest]

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What exactly do you mean about stock recognition?

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Once you define your block, ALL tool paths know exactly what stock is where and what needs to be cut simply based on what stock on condition you have left. You are always in control of your stock on and how it is configured.

 

The cavity mill tool path is a GREAT roughing tool.

 

Using NX on a daily basis however can be very frustrating. Things that should just be easy are not.

[peon]

I just got a crash course on NX4 last week. It seems to be a real PITA! This is gonna take some time to learn.

[Guest]

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It seems to be a real PITA!

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Yup

 

Try turning on cutter comp

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Alex have you looked at this?

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Not yet .

And I am interested in first of all to have this feature in Mastercam

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Try turning on cutter comp

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Coolant off and on is fun too

We've got a full seat on NX5 here, but I've had no luck getting IT down here to install it.

 

On the origial topic, the graphics in SolidWorks

2008 is awesome..the downside... most of us

will have to buy a new computer to get acceptable performance

[Greg Williams]

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Coolant off and on is fun too

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Gcode that should be set in the post?

 

There is no need to use a UDF for that

[peon]

I had no problem with the coolant on/off. I had to make some changes in the post builder software to get it to function correctly