A couple of X7 Questions

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

Hi guys

Just a couple if X7 questions that others might have already figured out.

 

1) When I run Verify and My "Model" is a 3d box for the stock but a Full blown. DXF Sheet

With 50,000 entities etc. I see the whole mess in Verify ?

Even if I put the dxf on another level and turn it off etc.

Verify shows it. How do I keep from seeing it in Verifyand only see my Box stock model ?

 

2) Spin dynamically in MC / Pan with middle mouse & Spin in Verify Pan with middle mouse button ?

Currently I have Pan on Middle mouse button on in my .cfg but then I cant spin in Verify !?

Is there a way to Spin and Pan in both MC and Verify ?

 

3) 2D champhering , In previous and now X7 I get the

"Tool is to small to create champher, maximum Champher allowed will be generated" or something like that.

Not MC's fault but What am I doing wrong ?

My tool is a 45 deg cutter defined .005 at the bottom all the way at 45 deg to a .500 shank.

(As a taper cutter or a Champher tool I can't recall)

A .030 champher no matter what over hang I set the tool goes -.0025 deep.

I have been fudging my Z at the control for years.

 

4) In X7 when I drag drill points from one op to another I only get the prompt

" Retain depths or whatever" I no longer get "Merge or Replace 1'st" I swear in X6 and back it used

to ask me about replacing and merging also

Is there a setting I missed to get the full choice(s) prompt ?

 

Thanks everyone for any help

Tony

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

4) = Left and right Click then Drag give different solutions, Check that one off

[Müřlıń®]

1: I think you have to restart the verify. Everything that is on your screen will show when you press the icon in ops. Even if you hide them...verify has to look at your screen each time it loads.

 

I like that feature because I can turn on my windows and see how they are cuttng in verify.

 

2: I pan by zooming in and out with the mouse wheel.

Cursor placement determins how it will pan.

[GF8er]

Try defining your chamfer tool with a .01 tip and see if you get your desired results.

[djstedman]

#3 - put in a value for tip offset.. this is the amount of the cutter you want below the surface.. so for instance you want the chamfer to cut .06 up on the cutter.. put in .06 .. sounds like your not putting a value in there so its not pushing the cutter down any

[Newbeeee™]

^^^ This.

Also for chamfering with a 90deg tool, I'd just define a spot drill which works with no issues.

I'd only define a chamfer tool if it was a flat bottomed type (which works in X5 ok but I haven't used this in 7 yet.

[Joeyls319]

# 2: Hold down your alt button and middle mouse button to spin in verify.

[Brian B 74]

1 - Make a layer for your "workpiece" and only have that layer on when you hit the verify button. I have a layer for my solid (and only my solid) so when I go into verify that is the only geometry that gets transferred into the simulator.

 

Hope this helps!

[Jayson Kramer]

# 2: Hold down your alt button and middle mouse button to spin in verify.

Actually holding Alt turns into Panning not Spin.

[Chris Rizzo]

1) Open the file MastercamSimulatorDefaults.xml in your MyMcamx7 folder. Find the below line and change true to false.

 

<ShowWireframeGeometries>false</ShowWireframeGeometries>

[Brian B 74]

1) Open the file MastercamSimulatorDefaults.xml in your MyMcamx7 folder. Find the below line and change true to false.

 

<ShowWireframeGeometries>false</ShowWireframeGeometries>

 

+1

[Müřlıń®]

Actually holding Alt turns into Panning not Spin.

 

Sweet......thanks:)

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

Holding Alt turns my middle mouse wheel into Spin since I have "Middle mouse wheel set to Pan" checked in my .Cfg

(Your both right) !