Dynamic Xform X8

[pip]

What have you done to the perfectly working dynamic xform?

I can manipulate the gnomen, or the part.

I want to place the gnomen how my part will be on the machine, then xform the part to the world coordinate.

Doesn't work anymore. Set one axis with the gnomen then it jumps straight into part xform.

Or if I select to manipulate the gnomen I can not get back into the xform part selection.

Why play with things that worked perfectly. This is the worst ever upgrade we have ever had from mastercam.

 

Rant over, plus several good parts..

 

[Chris Rizzo]

 

Doesn't work anymore. Set one axis with the gnomen then it jumps straight into part xform.

Or if I select to manipulate the gnomen I can not get back into the xform part selectionI

want to place the gnomen how my part will be on the machine, then xform the part to the world coordinate.

 

1) In the Settings button, turn off "Switch to Manipulate geo after inital gnomen placement" . (Fyi, this was also on by default in X7)

 

2) After your done adjusting gnomen, there is a small translucent box to the lower left of the gnomen. That switches to move part. (#4 below)

 

3) After you've hit aforementioned move geo button, then the old Cplane/WCS etc options appear.

 

4) My MAJOR gripe is the axis labels are gone. Thus dynamic xform is 100% NOT usable to the colorblind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pip]

Thanks Chris.

I couldn't find the little option #4 to change.

Nvidia 2000 needed adjusting for contrast..

[Tyler Robotson]

Don't like the lack of labels .. when every other gnomon on the screen has a label, it makes sense to have them. 

 

Biggest gripe though is that when you're rotating and snapping to something it no-longer shows you the amount that you've rotated.  I used this all the time to align to fixtures, but sometimes you're snapping to an object behind the one you want, and the easiest way to tell was to look how much you were rotating by .. or sometimes you want that number because maybe you'll move the fixture that amount.  

Dynamic Xform finally got to the point where it was reliable, this is a step backwards