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i do the same in SP, except the move tool allows you not to have to remove the rads first. 9 times out of 10.
It is nice that MC has started improving the solids functionality.
Glad i jumped from X7 to 2017
so you are not designing from scratch in model Prep?
I dont use model prep, my issue is trying to use it as efficiently as SpaceClaim.
so i can switch to using it exclusively.
Opening and closing MC, hoping that it is at a point where i can redo
something is very inefficient.
thanks for the tips
Ill keep trying to find a good use for it
On one action thats great
but i Design on the fly custom R&D stuff , lots of it and sometimes i need to
undo 12 things quickly whislt my design changes and evolves.
In space claim you undo as far back as you like and quickly modify your design from that
point to where you need it.
Really? this is my first experience using model prep
Is model prep not meant to design in and just perform undo-able edits on imported solids?
seems odd.
Well i guess, i will not pursue custom designing components in MC.
Thanks for the info
Good Morning ppl
I used the push pull feature in model prep.
I hit the undo in the quick access bar but nothing happens.
How do you undo something in model prep?
Thanks in advance
Rick
Does any one think that it would me handy to rearrange the planes in the planes manager
manually so that you can get custom WCS's in a row with associated planes that you
make randomly (or create relative to)?
Dragging them up and down like tool-paths in a group would be sweet
Has any noticed this behavior?
I open mach def, edit the control def,save, save.
i click in a tool group properties and hit files and the properties window does not show up
Save MC, close MC, Open MC and it now works.
Also with out changing the mach or control def, once you open the properties in
a toolgroup and close it, you cant open it again until you , save, close, open??
new bug to work out me thinks..... very frustrating.
One thing i like, that maybe has been in x8 and x9, is that it recognizes the
solid now, you dont have to click something to tell mastercam there is a solid on the screen
you just select it
Hey Thad, Mick From CNC Software RE-created the View-fit c-hook to a net-hook for 2017.
if interested, here it is.
download the zip file attached, put it in a folder on your desktop, make sure they are not
blocked(read only) then copy to c-hooks folder on C:programfiles/mastercam2017/chooks.
.
ViewFit_NETHook.zipViewFit_NETHook.zip
.
Rickstrap out
For x6 and x7 i was able to put a chook (viewfit) in the dll and chook folder and assign
a keyboard shortcut. ctrl 1,2,3,4 for the 4 views. (Since the chook was made in X2 i have
never used the alt 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 method)
It doesnt appear that I can do that now, as it does not come up in the catagories like x7
Unless i just cant find the way to do it.
Does anyone know how to do this?
.
A video i watched on the other Matercam forum that they put on the main page
to tell ppl some of the reasons for change, basically it was to get on board with
Microsoft type interface for marketing.
I got from the video that they were mostly interested in new users interests.
Which only means that they have better dexterity then us old ppl to
click a lot more and look through menus faster.....
i also use the right 'menu click' for most of every thing I do
I agree, i have found that some things i needed fixed in x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 are finally
working properly in 2017.
I just wish they added steep/shallow to the change common parameters page.
and a way to select all the geometry on the screen and apply it to several paths at once.
(rather than drag and drop to each and every path, one at a time)
These are severely time consuming when you do as many Engineering changes as i do.
Once I get a few new molds down start to finish, i'll be alright....
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