Multi stl files?

[Mcam Nut]

I am programming a job on our horizontal and it is 3 difernt parts (2-4 sides on each part), set up on four faces of the pallet. The way I have it setup now it When I verify the part I wall up a stl for each operation. I would like to do a demonstration for our customer of all the parts being machined at one time. Is there a way I can have all my stl files saved into one file so I can verify the entire program for our customer?

[Günther Massimo - GMCCS]

Google for ADMesh.

It can merge 2 STL files into one.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I do this on a regular basis. It takes a little work though...

 

What I do is take the fixture Solid, copy it to another level, take the first part, copy it to the same level as the other copy, etc... until I have all the pieces I want to have checked againse. Then I boolean add all the solids together. Then I will select all my operations I want to Verify and select the solid as the stock and voila. If some solids won;t boolean, move them a little bit so that they intersect with other the other solid body{ies).

 

I do this all the time especially when I want to colision check tombstones, holders, etc... It's not sexy but it's definitely functional.

 

HTH

[Mcam Nut]

Thanks James, that should work good

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

I do that too, 'cept instead of moving things to overlap I add little bosses. Threads of bolts from Solidworks and tangent points on clamps tend to need these.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Ahhhh...

 

Nice Matt... I didn;t even think of that...

 

Thank you Matt.

[William Grizwald]

When CNC Sofware came out to visit, I gave them a list of bug fixes and enhancement requests. Right at the top of the enhancements was "Multiple solids for Verify". We machine a lot of weldments that are modeled with gaps for weld filler.

 

Second was "Save-Some" with the ability to pick an output format other than MCX such as STL.

 

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Bill

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

William, that reminds me, I'd really like pre-select for "Save Some". I tend to pre-select, hit save some, and think "Doh! I need to reselect now!".

[Tom Dorgan from American Precision]

+1000 Matt. I guess it is from my design days but I really have a hard time with the save some and end up having to double select my geometry all the time.