Newbie Questions

[Diedesigner]

Hi all,

Please forgive the nature of these questions as I am fairly new to 3D programming.

Situation: Programming with V8.1 on a block imported from an IGES file generated by Pro-E. After creating a bounding box in Job setup, I found that the Stock Origin lies at X0, Y-.17327, Z0.43636, with the Z thickness at 1.83076

- I tried translating the block "between pts" from X0,Y-.17327,Z.43636 to X0Y0Z0. It moved to X0,Y0 but still shows a Stock Origin of Z0.43636 . What am I missing? Why won't it move in "Z"?

- When hovering the mouse over the surfaces of the model, it leaves an annoying cursor trail. I can't find which setting in the config file will turn this off. Can anyone help here?

 

Thanks for your time with this. I will be working more and more in 3D, and have to sharpen my skills in this area.

 

Chris

[Jeremy Grigsby Excelsior Marking]

try changing your contruction plane to 3D, either on the left side toolbar or with the icons along the top

[Diedesigner]

Thanks Jeremy, that took care of moving the block. Now, can anyone help with those annoying cursor trails?

[iowajim62]

Hi,

You can hit F3 to refresh the screen. Other than that it is going to be hardware related and you'll have to turn down video acceleration and try that. Somebody else might have more ideas regarding your hardware.

HTH

[chris m]

Chris

 

The mouse trails are probably video-card related; we have a lot of that here. I know there has been much discussion of this; try using the search feature on this site to see what is recommended vs. what you are running. I know we use ATI Rage series cards and they suck. When we get some dough we will be upgrading.

 

C

[Scott Reiner]

Diedesigner here is a link to the forum that may help your curser situation.

 

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...ic;f=1;t=005105

 

HTH

[Diedesigner]

Thanks all, I appreciate all of your input. I'm sure other questions will arise as I go through this.

[rchoward]

just an aside

 

in pro e you can export a iges as a wire frame or a solid

 

i bring in both on different levels and voila line arcs and solids what could be better

 

parasolid i guess

[cadcam]

rchoward please post a Iges file on the FTP that contains a solid for us.

 

thanks J

[Quickmike]

It was my understanding that iges does not support solids. Is there some new information that I may have missed out on?

[Mark H]

ProE does export solids in their IGES files, but MasterCam does not read them.

 

Somewhere on the follwing site I read about the use of solids in IGES files... http://www.nist.gov/iges/

 

[ 02-12-2003, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: Mark H ]

[Rick Damiani]

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rchoward please post a Iges file on the FTP that contains a solid for us.

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Jay, IGES files can support solids. MasterCAM dosn't support those solids, but the IGES files can contian them. I have one here I generated from Inventor if you would like to see it.