WCS Help

[Ray Sander from Battelle]

I could use some help with the WCS. I can get it to work with one WCS change. Example I bring in an IGS file that is in an incorrect orientation. Then I can change the WCS to make a side view the top. Works fine at this point.

 

Now if I need to cut the bottom also I create view select that as WCS and it flips fine. If I then go to the view manager and select the first new view as WCS (by clicking the WCS column and the X shows up) it does not go back. What am I doing wrong? The June 2002 Enews only take it as far as one WCS change. By the way I have tried two different approaches when creating the second WCS. One by creating the second from first new WCS and I also tried it by going back to the original top view and changing it from there with the same results.

 

Just curious, are you using groups in Operations Manager to separate the tool paths with separate NCI names?

[Zero]

Right click your new view, set WCS (or click on this view in the WCS column like you said), and set current tplane and cplane. That should activate your new WCS and your new WCS c/tplane.

 

[ 08-16-2002, 09:00 AM: Message edited by: Zero ]

[Roger Peterson]

A couple of things I tell people who want to use the WCS is turn off the update cplane tplane when changing graphics view in the screen, config, and whenever you go to create a new WCS is to first turn them all off and then create your new WCS. I don't know if this helped but good luck.

[Ray Sander from Battelle]

I will keep trying this but for the moment those suggestions have not worked. Actually that is how I was doing it. It works just fine if all I wanted was one move from the original. Two moves of the WCS however is another story. It must be me so I will keep at it. Thanks