Hey, Bullines, how are you shipping- FED-up waiting for-EX PURO-sometime-LATER Snail-mail?

RStuart, does your cad file have surfaces?, if not can they be created easily? You can do a lot with projecting curves-offset with Level 1 mill. If you can email the file to me i'd be happy to take a look at it Steve

Salem, I don't know why you are having problems with this file. I read it in O.K., analyzed the surfaces no probleb, and just hit regenerate toolpaths. seemed to work fine. I put Salem_1.zip up on Cadcams ftp site with the toolpaths. Hope this helps Steve

Thanks Murlin that works. Rekd, the post is set up like that. program name inside the file is ok, but we need the file as seen in Windows explorer to be lower case. Thanks anyway.

Thanks Murlin, I'll try anything right now

Hey guys, anyone know where to change the file extention "nc" to lower case ?. We just installed a new puter with win2k, and the files have nc in upper case. we didn't have this problem on the old puter which was running NT.

Bruce, given the geometry you have, you have to create a miimum of three surfaces on each end. you have to decide whether to use existing geometry or break up some of the lines. the surfaces wil be facets with sharp corners at the common edges. HTH

Phil, if you take a look at my geometry, you will see that i rotated the small arc 180 degrees, so that the end points of both arcs are on the outside. If you don't, then the surface will be twisted. Steve

El, I emailed you a file. Also put it up on the FTP site in the solids folder. solid_taper.zip. Best looking result was creating a swept surface, 2 flats to close it off, and then solid from surfaces.

Leandro, when you project a curve onto a surface the result will be an aproximation only, especialy if the result is an arc as opposed to a spline. If you create 3 points along the red arc, and then project those points onto the surface, and then create an arc from those 3 surface points, they will have the same center and radius. Hope this is of help to you. Steve

Thanks, tried second one and it works fine.

Chris, I just tried it out and the warning message for levels greater then 255 comes up, but it won't end. Hit ok and it just comes back.This is for the first one, didn't try the second yet.

Jeremy, I noticed that when i select 'window' the default setting is set to "In+intr". If left there all entities are selected. change it to "Inside" only, and it should work. This may be a minor bug, because if i repeat this action, it defaults to In+intr again.

Jeremy, in set mask, select - clear all entities, ( turn them off ) and only check the color box.

Karl, I put up a file called surface fillet blend. I created some cross sections through the spoke and wall surfaces and then create,spline,blend, broke up the long splines on the original fillet at the intersctions, and created a coons surface, 10 x 1. Looks reasonably smooth. Steve