Locking up on hide/unhide

[gibbs machine corp]

Hello all. I've been having some trouble with X4 MU3 with hide and unhide. I can hide entities just fine, do some work on the entities remaining on the screen and alll is well. When I go to unhide the hidden entities, my computer locks and the only way out is to kill mastercam. If I forgot the save just before I tried to unhide, I've lost everything I did. I can't find anything one thing that might cause the lockup other the hiding and unhiding of entities. Any suggestions?

 

X4 MU3

Mill Level 3

Solids

XP Professional 2002 SP3

[Salahuddin]

no problem here

what kind of entity? chains, solid , surfaces?

[taperlength]

Is it a model imported from another program? I've done unhide on imported files and all kinds of untrimmed surfaces appear. Maybe that is locking it up.

[Superman]

Those un-trimmed surfaces that are hidden are the references ( building blocks ) for the trimmed surfaces on the imported model

 

If possible, leave them hidden

 

or you could....

import as a solid with create curves turned ON, then create your own surfaces as required, it will be cleaner and give less issues.

 

Remember to create curves from a solid, it will chain better, no doubling of wireframe entities.

 

IF you create curves from all surfaces, it will create curves on each edge of each surface ( a nightmare to chain )

 

What is the other program ?

What format are you using to import as ?

ie IGES, STEP

 

Maybe it creates the problems that you experience ( export settings )