Toolpath creating duplicate geo

[gibbs machine corp]

Hello all. I have a serious issue with 2d wireframe machining. I'm using X4 MU3, viewsheets, and custom wcs setups. What seems to be happening is when I pick a closed curve to cut with 2d contour using a flat endmill then pick the same curve to 2d contour cut with a chamfer tool, I end up with 2 identical wireframe curves. Mastercam is somehow recreating the curve for every machining operation that that curve is picked for. If I machine the same curve a dozen times using different endmills, it will create a dozen curves one on top of the other. This problem didn't start until I started using view sheets, so it must somehow be linked to this. Maybe, maybe not!! Anyone got a fix, besides not using viewsheets?

[robh]

do you have the option in backplot "save as geo" selected?

[Mike-T]

I just had something like this happen to me...

but I don't use viewsheets.

[BenK]

I use viewsheets all the time and I have never run in to this problem.

[nhraguy]

Just currious, if you restart master cam and open that file is the geo still there?

[gibbs machine corp]

Negitive on the save as geo button. I'm cutting on 6061 alum plate that I have to get an average thickness from our cnc setup guys to machine. I program with the geometry in mastercam at z0 then move it up to match the plate average before I post the toolpath. I've been doing it this way for years without issues. I just recently started using viewsheets. I don't know if translating the geo up is causing the duplicates or if it's the viewsheets. I deleted the viewsheets and disabled them in my current file to see if it is linked to viewsheets.

[gibbs machine corp]

jimg03, that seems to be when the duplicates showup, when I reopen a file that's done. I didn't think about that being a pc to the puzzle. Things seem to be fine while I'm programming. It's a day or 2 later when I go in to move the geo up and regen to match the plate thicknees that the duplicates show up.

[robh]

you probably are just "moving" them up and not "copying" them up, right?just thought I'd ask.

[gibbs machine corp]

I wish it was that simple. I'm moving the geo 1" or more so a copy would be left at z0 and easily seen.

[nhraguy]

That's weird, sometimes when I regen a toolpath (usally 5 axis) I can see what looks like duplicate geo & I can't get rid of it until I restart mastercam. Obviously though, this is not your problem. Wish I had some other idea of what might be causing this...but I don't.

[gibbs machine corp]

I've seen what you're talking about sometimes when I regen. I don't get this duplicate geo issue with surface machining, just 2d wireframe. I use a lot of containment curves, but have not ended up with duplicates. I use viewsheets and custom wcs setups in those files.

[Acro Engineering]

Happens here often... Restart the computer, delete the extra chains, regen the tollpath then post...

[gibbs machine corp]

That's what I do, just shouldn't have to. It's a waste of time. No sence in have cool apps if they don't work. Might be time to clean up all the bugs before they move on to new apps that don't work. Just a thought.