Project a Curve to Surface

[Sandybar]

Man I thought I did this before and for the light of me I can't remeber how I did it. I want to project a curve onto a surface. What am I missing.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Guyinthedesert]

Man I thought I did this before and for the light of me I can't remeber how I did it. I want to project a curve onto a surface. What am I missing.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

Go to Xform, project

 

Select curves

Select project onto surfaces

Select surfaces

[Sandybar]

Oh yeah. Musta been a brain fart. Thanks

[MATT Q]

thanks I was looking for that the other day!

[Kelly Lapp]

Has any one had any trouble with this. For some reason I cant get MU1 to project a curve on to a surface. any help would be appreciated.

[crazy^millman]

Nope working great in MU1 and something else.

[Kelly Lapp]

Dont know what it is then. Sometimes it works and sometime it doesnt Really frustrating!

[LaszloK]

Make sure your curve is all on one side of the surface. If it interesects, then translate it up a bit. Also there are a couple of options. One normal to the surface or normal to the view.

[Redfire427]

This has been a bug for many years. At least 50% of the time, you will get " no projections found". Don't panic. Close Mastercam, then reopen the file and do it again and it will work. This is the only workaround that will guarantee success.

 

Carmen

[crazy^millman]

Also use the Ram Saver it seems to help.

[Rocketmachinist]

Save, close Mastercam and then try doing it again. I've had that problem before and just restarting fixed it.

[Kelly Lapp]

Thanks for the info.

[TERRYH]

LOL sometimes it works sometimes it don't that in a nut shell sounds like everthing in mastercam. I have found if you simply run the ram saver it fixes most everthing without doing a restart.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Has any one had any trouble with this. For some reason I cant get MU1 to project a curve on to a surface. any help would be appreciated.

 

I have had it stop working on many occasion. MC uses a lot of resources (cache) to

stay running and a simple restart of MC has gotten it back working for me every time!

 

happened to me 4 times this week and its only tuesday!

 

Ron, ram saver has not work for me as of yet.

[Aaron Eberhard]

I've never really had a problem with Xform project, unless the surface is ridiculously ugly (a lot of folds/overlaps/gaps/etc) and I deal with it a lot. Most of the problems I've had with it come from views/planes. Always make sure you're drawing in the plane you want to project in. If it's not, try going to Planes > = to Gview to make a new plane.

[Jayson Kramer]

I am with Aaron. did you get this to work yet?

[gcode]

for Xform/Project to work correctly. you need to be sure your contruction plane is set so you're looking down on the surface

it alsoi helps if you make sure the surface normals are all the same and pointing up relative to the desired projection