X4 & Moving Solids

[John Hill @ Poplar Hill Machine]

Hey Gang,

 

I've run into this issue a number of times but haven't figured out the exact steps to reproduce it...anyone else seen this?

 

Create a solid using a bounding box

*OR*

Merge a solid model

 

Select the solid using either Select All - choosing the Level the solid is on, or windowing in on it.

 

Move the solid with Xform Translate. Doesn't matter which method is used. All wireframe entities selected along with the solid move but not the solid itself.

 

Select All doesn't highlight the solid, windowing in on it does.

 

Click directly on the solid to select it and it will move. After the first move, it can be moved using either method mentioned above with no problem.

 

Regards,

 

John

[3R!< W3NG3R]

do you have an 'only' mask on sometimes?

[John Hill @ Poplar Hill Machine]

No, I don't.

[Bruce Caulley]

Solids license?

[John Hill @ Poplar Hill Machine]

Yes. Also, Mastercam X4 (13.0.3.31)

[gcode]

the next time this happens try clciking the

"regenerate display list " icon

 

the orange paintbrush looking one

[John Hill @ Poplar Hill Machine]

Will do...Thanks.

[ERIC14779]

I have had issues when using Dynamic Xform when the solid is shaded.

 

When I try to move with solid shaded MC Crashes

 

 

If I switch to wireframe.... no issue..

[Bulletman]

I have reports of the same issue from a couple of our programmers recently. I've personally experienced an issue with moving or copying a solid to an alternate level. you can select it but it will not move. This doen't happen all the time and there doesn't seem to be any pattern when the problem occurs. When the problem occurs I save the file shut Mastercam down and then it works just fine.

 

I suggested saving your file, shutting down Mastercam and restarting it when you have the similar problem during the Transform operation and then try it again. Everytime this type issue occurs restarting always resolves it till it happens again.

 

It always seems to be Solids and the problem preceeds X4

[The Chipmaker]

bump

I had this a couple of times

[Toonz]

Did you have the solid shaded when you tried moving it? If yes.....try turning off the shading.

[Bulletman]

The problem occurs regardless of it being shaded or not. I will check with the other programmers.

[gcode]

I'm pretty sure this is fixed in X4MU3..

If you're still having trouble with it,

Screen Regenerate (paint brush on orange background) will fix it most of the time..

If that fails a Mastercam resart will be neccessary.

[John Hill @ Poplar Hill Machine]

I'm still having this issue with X4MU3 regardless of whether the solid was opened directly, merged or created by me, shaded or wireframe.

 

I've found that using RAM Saver seems to temporarily fix it...but you also lose anything cleared by RAM Saver.

[Bulletman]

Ditto