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Ummmmm....NO....LH vs RH compensation will only offset your tool one side or the other. When you select your path (circle) you have the option to change the chain direction by using the Blue/Red arrow in the chain manager. That is where you determine Climb vs Conventional, based on path direction and (selected)tool rotation.
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When I bring in a STP file I don't worry about levels, cuz the names don't come thru and each solid ends up on it's own level. For the things that I work on it turns out to be a bonus. If I brought in the native (inventor .iam) file it would be a real PITA for me, because I would then have to separate everything to it's own level anyway.
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What brand is the machine? What version of control software?
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Matt, I have to ask what you mean (in detail) by.... quote: 3. Clean the registry Is this an automatic cleaning? Manual? what keys?
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quote: actually, it isn't.. I've heard of competitors showly up at sales appointments with a Mastercam bug list as part of thier sales presentaion.. If they wouldn't release a product full of bugs they wouldn't have to worry about it at all! I've said it several times, to take their time and do thorough testing. Then fix the problems BEFORE releasing it.
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You are correct I did have the configs listed backwards....sorry about that. I was thinking about the way they list in my boot screen. Raid 0 is my primary and Raid 1 is the backup.
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If you open the screenshot in a viewer program (somerthing other than Paint) you can then do a copy & paste into your email.
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Raid 1 will get you a little more system speed, but I would go with Raid 0 for greater reliability. The speed that you will sacrifice from 1 to 0 isn't much to worry about. At home I run both. I run Raid 1 as the primary system and then ghost everything to the Raid 0 as a backup. The only difference from Murlin is that I use Acronis since Ghost won't work on XP-x64.
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to fixx the problem as you described you need to re-associate the file extensions with X3. Open a Windows explorer window, and click on Tools at the top. Then select Folder Options. Next click the File Types tab. Scroll down in the window to find the MCX extension, highlight it, and then click the change button. Then just re-direct it to the proper X3 folder and the X3 executable file.
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sorry....no habla spanglish
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If the font you need to use is a Windows font or a true type font, then you can simply ues the Create Letters command and place it on the appropriate arc. If it is a Windows font and you don't have it, have your customer send you the font, or pick it up online somewhere.
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There is not one all encompassing solution for the problem at hand here. There are too many factors and variables to consider. The Material being cut is first on the list, is it hard or soft (or in my case is the core material different that the face materials). Then you have to factor in, type of tool (upshear, downshear, compression, straight) depth of cut, diameter of tool, length of tool, how many cutting edges, dirction of cut. Is the tool fully engaged. Are you doing a finish pass. What type of finish (cut) is acceptable when it's done.
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Try plugging it into a different USB port on your pc
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I agree with all that has been thrown out in this thread and more so with the first few comments about patches. I strongly voiced the same sentiment in the Mastercam Survey that appeared in the forum last week. They are being paid for a service which they are failing to deliver on. Have you all noticed that no one from CNC Software has posted anything in this thread yet?
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Even CAD software doesn't waste time or resources with something as mundane as a trim preview. If you don't have a clue as to what the results are going to be, you are in the wrong job! And if by chance you get an incorrect result you still have the UNDO button to save your behind!
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10-15% in MC the rest is imported from three different CAD programs.
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Are you doing this on a lathe? or on a router? your 1st post made it sound like router, but a later post of yours makes it sound like lathe. If you are using a router, this is typical of stuff we frquently do, and we do it with 3 axis (we also have 4th axis capability, but not needed for this type of work). You simply ball mill it top half first. Drill some indexing holes on the top half first. Then flip and index with dowels. Run the same program again. We've done everything from simple to something more complex than your example.
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A couple things you can do. When you are opening the IPT or IAM click on the "Options" button before you click the check. Open it as a solid, but also have it apply Edge Curves as it opens the model. Beyond that, if you need surfaces, apply them after you have opened the model. This method will give you the cleanest geometry to work with.
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I had the same problem not too long ago, trying to do the exact same thing. What I found that helped, was to take all the elements that I was able to place successfully and move them to a different level and then turn them off. Then place some more and when it got too problematic again, move them to the other level. Even with this method there were many frequent (and irritating) moments when the raster image would vanish. It seemed to like certain zoom factors over others. Best I can say is try the above, then zoom in/out a lot and refresh the screen a lot too.
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Use Surface Flowline and start at the center, then spiral out.
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What font is it? What's special about it? Is it a True Type font?
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Try placing the tabs manually instead of automatic. I have the same problem once in a while and haven't figured out why yet.
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I have seen situations where surfaces adjoining each other will be at 90 degrees to each other, not in plane but in orientation. What I mean is to select one surface, and show the flow lines, then pick the next surface and show the flow lines. They do not flow in the same direction to each other. Sure you can change one to make it match, but if you select both, when you change the direction they both change and are still opposed to each other.
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Need to 'wrap' profile around irregular surface.
Toonz replied to Daniel M's topic in Industrial Forum
Try Xform Project. I did sometihng very similar recently. It works great. I did have to first project the flat elements to a standard plane before they would project to the surface. -
Yes, still using X3-MU1. I also just went thru the exercise of taking a copy of the tool library and putting it on the C: drive in the proper folder and FBM seems to be happy now. I, however, am not.