Surface selection thru another surface?

[Scott Lent]

I’m  hogging-out a housing using Surface High Speed toolpaths and I used Create / Surface / Fill Holes to keep the tool out of a hole with counterbore which is being machined using various 2D toolpaths. I'm now programming for that hole and counterbore and there is a .050 radius feature that I am trying to use a Surface Finish Flowline toolpath to generate, but I am not able to select the radius surface as it is inside the part because the hole is filled. If I delete the surface created to fill the hole, I am deleting a referenced entity and that messes up my hogout. Is there a way to pick that radius surface under the fill surface?

 

Thanks in advance!

Scott

 

 

[jlw™]

Create and use levels. Click to select all those "filled holes" then right click the levels tab. Number a new level and green check it. Then open level manager back up and uncheck that level. Easy peasy.

[JMahon]

Yep levels are key to using mastercam effectively. There's prob some YouTube videos on it

[AMCNitro]

Whenever I use Filled holes I set them on a separate level for this very reason.  Advice for levels: do yourself a favor and name them, trust me...

[jlw™]

Yeah, I have a ton of my "standard" levels. Then if I have to do any complex solids... add another ton of levels.

[brandon b]

Or just blank the filled hole surface. Levels would be my firs5 choice tho

[Scott Lent]

I feel really stupid for not thinking of that myself.

 

Thank you !!!

 

Scott

[jlw™]

We're all guilty of over-thinking it!

[mkd]

alt S to turn shading off.

If model is not too complicated you could select radius by clicking on the wireframe.

 

 

lazy FTW.