X-form problem

[Smrkoul]

Hi,

x-form operations doesn't work in my X4. When i try to translate, rotate wireframe geometry nothing happend. When i select translate, it shows 1st point ("from") 2nd point ("to"), but dont show geometry at final position and don not translate it.

Same problem with rotation. Show "from" "to", show dashed cicrle between points, but with no result.

thanks for help

[Leigh @ Kodiak]

I'm not at work, so sorry for not being able to be more specific.

 

Look in your settings. I'm not sure which tab, but if you browse through them, there is a check box somewhere that states something like, "preview transformed geometry" or similar. make sure it is checked on.

 

Good luck!

[J Coulston]

Could you be copying moving to a hidden level?

[Smrkoul]

I try to turn on all levels. I try to restart Mastercam an it works again. So sometime it work sometime dont. I dont know, where is the problem....

[Colin Gilchrist]

Version? Location? Training?....

 

Lots of variables here.

 

We'll try to help you out, but you need to provide us with more information.

 

Do you know what pre-selection is and how it works?

[Smrkoul]

version X4 (13.0.3.31) build date may 21,2009 (downloaded from web)

licence: mill lvl 3, solids

 

now i have another problem: i want to copy 8 solids to another layer. so i make window selection of them, but it select and copy only 2 of them. I restart Mastercam and everything is ok (selection and copy without any problem)

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

You might re-download and re-install as there was a second download released due to some issues about 6/11/09

[Smrkoul]

i downloaded it 19.6.2009

[Smrkoul]

My problems still remains, it is quite annoying to restart Mcam when you waqnt to move entity to another layer or transform. Does anybody have same problem?

[Ken Erman from CNC Software Inc.]

Very strange problem indeed...

 

I suspect you have some memory issues, but where and why is just guess work. The next time this happens you might try regenerating the display list to see if things show up.

 

- You say restarting X4 cures the problem, but for how long?

 

- Are you performing anything consistently before the problem shows up? - Shading, Verify, Backplot, Toolpath creation, etc.

 

- Open the levels manager, do the new entities show up in the entity count even if you don't see them on the screen? If not use the right-click to refesh the list.

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

what are your pc specs? what video card do you have?

[gcode]

This usually occurs after translating a large solid or a large amount of enities.

I believe the undo memeory gets full of old

translate data, there is no room for more,

so the next translate (or level move) is ignored.

Restarting Mastercam is the only cure.

The problem has been present to some degree since

X2. I have completely failed in my attempts to

create a step by step procedure to replicate it.

Restricting the amount of memeory available to Undo will lessen its occurance, but not eliminate it.

This still happens in X4, but is much less frequent that it was in X2.

[Goldorak]

i got the same problem with a simple .5 arc

 

transform from a solid face WCS, works one time , when i tried to transform the same entity the second time i get the same result as Smrkoul

 

 

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