Gview, planes, and WCS confusion

[dgoering - DEPCO LLC]

First, I am using X2 MR2.

 

I am trying to follow instructions to create a fan. The instructions were written by someone who no longer works here, and they were written for mcam V9.

 

The first step of the original instructions tell the user to change the Gview to side and the Cplane to side, and to set Z to 2.0.

 

"Side" isn't an option for Gview or Cplane, but "Right side" or "Left side" as you all know. So I picked Right Gview and Right Cplane to try to create the part, and set the Z to 2 (using Status bar functions for all of these).

 

After I set these and began to create geometry, which includes a spline, nothing is displaying correctly, and the spline isn't working the way it is supposed to.

 

So, I tried to finish creating an airfoil for the fan, but it doesn't view correctly.

 

I've searched the forum for similar topics, and tried a few other things, like clearing the update view check box in the View Manager, but nothing seems to work.

 

Advice?

[JDowe]

In V9 side is right side - try setting the 3d

to 2d

[dgoering - DEPCO LLC]

Changing to 2D fixed some problems, but has created others. When working in 2D, I can't Xform Scale the part correctly, without it relocating to a totally new and incorrect location.

[Colin Gilchrist]

There are some really annoying switches in the Settings | Configuration menu that may be effecting your work.

 

In the Configuration dialog box, click on "CAD Settings" in the tree view. There are two checkboxes: Update Cplane and Tplane when changing Gview, and Reset C-plane to Top in ISO Gview.

 

Turn these two switches off. They cause your Planes to switch without warning...

 

Next, for your design work I'm 99% sure that you only want to work with Planes (Cplane and Tplane), not WCS. I won't go into why, there are 27 pages of information in the Reference Guide PDF file that explain it pretty well.

 

To set the planes without changing your WCS, use the "Planes" fly out menu on the status bar (not the "View Manager" function in the WCS menu).

 

The 2D/3D switch is just that, a switch. You may need to draw your geometry in 2D, then toggle the switch to 3D mode. Also, in X2 when you scale you have to pick the scale origin point with the button, in V9 Mastercam prompted you to pick the point...

 

Can you post the tutorial you are following on the FTP? I'm sure someone can take a look and go through it in X2 and tell you what needs to be done differently...

 

Thanks,

[dgoering - DEPCO LLC]

I just tried to upload a file to the FTP, and I get this message:

 

"An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP server. Make sure you have permission to access that folder. The operation timed out."

 

I posted that on the thread for the FTP site. I can email it to you, but I have a meeting now. I will check back ASAP.

[dgoering - DEPCO LLC]

I have the tutorial ready to email, if anyone wants to see it, since the FTP site is still down (or at least, doesn't work for me).

[Jayson Kramer]

I will be looking into the ftp tonight.

[dgoering - DEPCO LLC]

Thanks Jay.

[Colin Gilchrist]

shoot me an email through my profile, I'll respond back through my email account.

 

Thanks,

 

Colin

[dgoering - DEPCO LLC]

Success, I got it figured out. Thanks for all the help.

 

Once I changed from 3D to 2D construction, and fixed my Z depth, everything worked.