TRANSFORM IN X3

[shazam/TPP]

i have xp sp2 and x3 mill level 3. i have a simple 2d geometry milling an external profile that i want to mirror on th y axis. i open transform, select mirror, the ops to be mirrored, select "create new ops and geometry" , method is coordinate, group nci by operation type, then flip to mirror page, select y axis, mirror view TOP, and then OK. what happens then is it copys geometry over several times mirrored and not, also creating a toolpaths that are internal and a mirrored external path. i tried the same part in x2 and it worked fine. i'm assuming this is a bug.

[Guest]

Mirroring a tool path has never been a good choice.

 

Mirror your geometry and reselect the tool path

[shazam/TPP]

thats what i normally but i thought i would give it a try. using the same file one in x2 and one in x3. the x2 worked. oh well.

[Jaz]

I had been using the tranform toolpath - mirror quite a lot in X2. Now it doesn't work? Just like shazam said. (I know I can do it OLD WAY, but it was working so slick!)

[rdshear]

I thought I was just not remembering how I did it in X2 because I don't transform often. I had the same thing happen except my issue was with transforming rectangular and creating new geometry and toolpath instead of mirroring. It duplicated the original geometry and path as well as create the new one.

[Jaz]

This is not good. We use it enough we may decide to go back to X2.

[Glenn Bouman]

Try the MirrorToolpath.dll chook in X3

[ATG]

I'm having the same issue in x3, x2 worked great hopefully this is fixed in the next update.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

I've been having transform issues as well. I tell my computer to transform into robot mode and it just sits there, I can't figure it out!

[rdshear]

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I tell my computer to transform into robot mode and it just sits there

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[shazam/TPP]

Glenn,

the tranform chook freezes for me. Cnc Software is looking into it but has not officially assigned a bug number.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

After a couple of Times running translate Copy

Translate still "Copies" when I have selected Move now.

 

Save / Reopen file doesnt fix it, or closing out

and restarting MC

 

Where's Neil ?!

[NeilJ]

"Mirroring a tool path has never been a good choice."

 

Why?

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

I use mirror all the time to get a left and a right part.

[NeilJ]

"I use mirror all the time to get a left and a right part."

 

I tried using Transform Mirror on a part yesterday and had nothing but problems. First time I've used it. I ended up doing an X-Form Mirror on the geometry and then re-chaining everything. I'd like to know what I did wrong.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

what I did wrong

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