WCS problem or bug?

[mig]

Following by tutorial geting problems with WCS .

My head is going to explode.

Each time i open and close the view manager in the left corner the T/C plane became "not saved " and in table of view manager I'm getting new lines "NEW VIEW #1...."

I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IT'S COMING FROM

[Dan@home]

I could be wrong but I think this is in your post. I think you have your WCS set to piviot points and not to 3+2 positioning. These would be temp planes. I am not a 5x guru but I think you would fix this here;

code:

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 #Work offsets

workofs$ : -1 #Initialize work offset

force_wcs : yes$ #Force WCS output at every toolchange?

use_frst_wcs: yes$ <<Change this to no$ #Use only the first WCS read and ignore all others in NCI

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[Ployd]

I noticed that also.

 

 

[gcode]

I don't know what the tutorial is telling you to do, so I don't know how they are being created, but you can safely delete them.

Plans used in toolpaths have a check mark next

to them. Mastercam will not allow you to delete one that is being used in a toolpath or a stock definition. It won't hurt if you leave them

but it will cluter up your view manager.

[Chris Wichlaz @ lpmachine]

try unchecking "update Cplane and Tplane when changing Gview" in Settings, Config, Cad settings. THis was suggested by John Paris a week or two ago.

Chris

[mig]

All things unchecked ,not making any difference

Also "C" and "T".... you have to really wach them they jumping with new views .

So far 4 axis in Mastecam doesn't look too impressive to me .

[Greg Williams]

I see this problem as well. The issue seems to be related to transform toolpaths.

[Ray H.]

I believe that Jm paris is correct. If you hace update T/C plane selected in your config under cad settings,every time you change you g-view it will creat another new plane. Althouigh it should prompt you to rename the plane. By enchecking the two check boxes in cad settings it will keep this from happening every time you change from top to right or iso views. Which still gets me how people work with them turned on. You could also test this by checking that Mastercam only makes relative planes. If you set those planes as your WCS you should see that they are relative to your 165 deg plane. You know like front, righ, iso,left.

[Larry Westgate]

In the new view box make sure the associative and set new orign are checked, that should take care of the problem

[dolphin1]

do any of you guys get a prob when working with one of the operations and all of sudden all the wcs top change to something else at random and all your good operations turn red.

 

did checking both check boxes really make a diff.

[dolphin1]

ok well i tried both check boxes and that didnt help. i can have the G view & T/C planes set the same and WCS set to top and do a regen on a operation im working on and it will add 2 to 3 new views.

 

also after the regen the info at the bottom left of the screen will change the T&C planes to something different for each one. neither of them will be what they were before the regen.

[dolphin1]

well i got a screen save showing whats going.

 

i couldnt figure out how to size the image so the type is a little hard to read at the bottom.

 

[Jayson Kramer]

Who's the speaker base for?

I have not had any issue with the WCS changing on me and I use it all the time and have been programming parts for at least two months with it.

 

(try unchecking "update Cplane and Tplane when changing Gview" in Settings) I do this as part of my install.

[Colin Gilchrist]

When this happens to you, Save your part file, then run RAM saver, then shutdown Mastercam and restart it.

[dolphin1]

Thanks guys i will try these things.

[dolphin1]

quote:

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When this happens to you

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just to comment this is all the time and not when it happens.ive been seeing this since X came out.

[Snehal Shah]

Just wondering if someone found a reason behind the creation of "new views"..

 

I have been asked the same question, It happens randomly on the users end (usually when creating multiple planes). I have given the above suggestions and I've tried to duplicate it on my end with no luck.

 

[ 08-13-2009, 07:12 PM: Message edited by: Snehal Shah ]

[Mr. Wizzard]

I've had them automatically generated when you import op's, especially on 4-axis positioning / programming with transformed toolpaths. It can become extremely irritating when you have dozens of ops.

You should be able to delete them once and they should stay gone.

If they keep coming back, try this:

check to see if you have created a new T/C plane that corresponds to a default plane. This has been trouble for me in the past. Instead of using the new plane, Mcam renames a default plane as you have been seeing.

 

Try tracing the location, orientation of those planes you are having pop up and planes you have selected in your operations. This might help track down why they are popping up and where from.