Color mask doesn't work in chaining

[melliott6]

I just started using MCX3 MU1 about one month ago. When I chain something with the color mask on the chain still stops at all branch points. I have tried in 2-d and 3-d and it makes no difference. In v9 my color mask worked great. Is there something I am missing here?

 

Also, when I offset it appears that the entity that I offset vanishes. If I hit F3 to refresh it appears at the position it was offset to. Is there a reaason that the entity is invisable until I F3. This is annoying because untiil I figured out what was going on I thought the entity was deleted.

 

Thanks,

Mike

[Snehal Shah]

Hi Melliott6,

 

In regards to the chaining, make sure the correct radio button is selected "C-plane" or "3D" and check the options "!" in the chaining dialog box

 

As for the geometry that vanishes, try disabling the hardware acceleration of the video card..

 

HTH

[Guest]

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As for the geometry that vanishes, try disabling the hardware acceleration of the video card..

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And if that works it is likely time to consider upgrading that card.

 

It does "sound" like a video card issue for certain.

 

The "low" end GeForce cards, ATI cards and integrated cards, NONE of them generally work well.

[melliott6]

When I use chain when creating a toolpath it works great. The problem is when I want to make a selection by chaining before selecting a function. Say for example, I want to change colors, transform, etc... I can't chain using the color mask.

[Guest]

I just drew 3 rectangles in the same exact spot, overlying each other.

 

I changes colors so all 3 were different colors.

 

I went to Only, selected a color, selected chain and the selected color chained in either 2D or 3D mode.

 

Can you share your file to see if this is file specific?

 

You can do a Click and save to download and see how it worked for me.

 

ftp://mastercam:[email protected]_chain.exe

 

[ 02-21-2009, 09:55 AM: Message edited by: JParis@CNC Programming Solutions ]