Cad File Machining

[cadcam]

Roger I agree with what you are saying.

I still could see using this at times still.

[Roger Peterson]

In response to my last post. regardless if the file contains wirefram or not you are unable pick a point to translate from or rotate about. So the best thing would be to have the cad file in the correct orientation with the correct origin, which isn't really a problem.

[Scott Bond]

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you are unable pick a point to translate from or rotate about.

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Bummer!!!

I was hoping to overcome this with the WCS.

[Verisurf - Ernie Husted]

This tool was originally created for machining STL files and has evolved into all file types.

 

Did you know Mastercam can machine STL files?

 

Ernie

[cadcam]

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Did you know Mastercam can machine STL files?

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Yes some of us did.

I have been asked buy customers before and have done demo's and asked if it can be done.

 

I perfer not to if possable but like all features it's nice to have an option.

 

JM2C

 

[ 11-26-2002, 11:53 PM: Message edited by: cadcam ]

[ssibiski]

I'm a little confused.

When you bring the cadfile into mc you are not able to move it into the right orientation?

Can't you use x-from rotate or x-form translate?

Or am I just not understanding you?

 

very confused

 

ssibiski

[Roger Peterson]

That is the key, you are not actually importing the file. If you open up Mastercams help file and go to the index and type in cad file machining, this should explain it a bit better.

[ProductDevelopmentGuy]

You are able to re-orient the CAD file data once you select it in Mastercam.

In Toolpaths/Surfaces, set CAD File to 'Yes', and 'Drive' to 'No'. Select your parameters and then select the file to machine. You will be presented with a menu that allows you to move the data around - it's NOT entities so you can't pick them or anything like that, but it IS orientable, in a limited way.