levels have "1' entity

[captpaul]

Hello,

 

I opened and saved a .stp file.

 

now my x2 file has 20868 levels that shows "1" entity in each level. No geometry on the levels. No Name on the levels.

 

Opened in x4 (just loaded) same thing.

Purged - still there.

 

Under "List Levels" I have to have "Named" only

checked, otherwise the 20868 levels open which also slows the file down, opening.

 

Any suggestions,

Thanks

Paul

[Code_Breaker]

try this:

 

unblank ... all enities ... OK

delete ... all enities ... OK.

 

then, clear color, cuz everything will be selected on blank levels as well ...

 

This works for me ...

 

PS ... may have to do it twice

[mchin-pilot]

"Opened in x4 (just loaded) same thing.

Purged - still there."

 

Purge? How do we do that in MC? Where is he command?

[gcode]

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Purge? How do we do that in MC? Where is he command?

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right click in the Level Manager

[Superman]

You will get this sort of thing happening when importing a STEP file ( done in another CAD system ) into Mastercam as surfaces, these phantom entities are the "hidden" untrimmed surfaces, and are used to make the displayed surfaces.

 

Save your work first, as it will become very ugly

To display them, "Un-hide", all entities, OK

 

**** these are used to create the trimmed surfaces that are normally displayed, DO NOT DELETE them ****

leave them hidden, you could move them to only 1 level if you so desire to tidy things up.

 

To bypass these $hitters, import the STEP as a solid, and then create the geometry and surfaces from the solid.

[Jim at Gentex]

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You will get this sort of thing happening when importing a STEP file ( done in another CAD system ) into Mastercam as surfaces

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Yes, I've seen this quite a bit too. Superman's suggestion of importing the step file as a solid is certainly the easiest.

 

However, the export settings in the CAD package used to create the surface step file can also be manipulated to affect how the surface file looks when opened in Mastercam. I know there are different settings in Catia and Solidworks that can result in a step file that behaves exactly as you describe.

 

I'm no CAD driver, but I'm sure some folks here could tell you how to get a cleaner surface step file to export out of Catia or Solidworks if you don't have MC Solids capability.

 

As always, there's more than one way around!

[captpaul]

Thanks,

 

Code_Breaker and

Superman

 

as Superman said "DO NOT DELETE them"

moved to 1 level * works for me.

 

Tried importing as solid, always get "SOLIDS TOPOLOGY IMPORT FAILED" even checking

the 3 different options.

 

The .stp file is about 80mb and takes

15-20 minutes to open (translate).

 

running lenovo program "Mouse Suite"

wondering if it causes mcam problems?

 

 

Lenovo system

Vista Business

Core2 Duo 3.0 Ghz

4 gb ram

nvidia quadro fx1700

[mchin-pilot]

To GCode

 

""Purge? How do we do that in MC? Where is the command? ""

""right click in the Level Manager""

 

Still cant find this "Purge " thingy!!

 

Can any one suggest about this command, where to find in MC.

[LA CAMmer]

Open level manager (Alt-Z), right click anywhere on the levels, menu pops up, look for "Purge empty levels"

 

[mchin-pilot]

Thanks CAMmer,

 

Seems this feature is new with X3 or X4? because X2 does'nt show this. I'll have a look though.

[3R!< W3NG3R]

new to X4.

[Slick]

A "Work Around" is to copy the solid to an empty level, "save some" and just save the the copied level. This isn't bulletproof, I have still seen "Ghost Levels" brought in. But it definatley purges things a lot quicker.