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Duckman

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  1. Dear all members/moderators, Thank you all for your patience and technical expertise during these past four months. I have learned a lot from this forum and from my work about MasterCAM, although I think I've only scratched the surface. However, my co-op work term here is nearing an end, and thus I will not be bombarding this forum anymore with endless chook programming questions. I will be returning to Systems Design Engineering classes at the University of Waterloo, Canada in September. It's been a great pleasure to learn from you guys. Special thanks to Bullines, PDG for their technical help, and James Mayette for his encouragement and support. Sincerely, Simon
  2. is there a way to suppress the creation of the error file upon posting?
  3. no, it's fine if i change the axis of rotation
  4. when I create a primitive solid sphere in front view, and then convert the solid into STL ASCII, the resulting file contains duplicate triangles, as well as "triangles" which have normal (0,0,0) and a duplicated point. However, when I create the sphere in top view, everything is fine. Any ideas why this happens? THanks! Duckman [ 08-23-2002, 03:59 PM: Message edited by: Duckman ]
  5. a variety of parts would be nice...it'd b great if my chook works on even the most complex chook, but if it doesn't work i guess i'll have to test wtih simpler ones first...size is not an issue...I'm not sure what the solid option is..but I think I have it... thanks! could you send it to [email protected] thanks!
  6. where can i set up the minimum line length...is it the same setting as minimum arc length? is there a way to suppress the warning window when something is below this minimum?? Thanks!
  7. Hi, I'm currently testing a chook I made, but don't have many parts to test it on. Does anyone have any solid parts I can use? Thanks!
  8. in the CHOOK API's CHAIN structure, there are two boolean members, "closed" and "branch", which flags if a particular chain is closed, and has branches. The variable that seems to define what a "branch" and what consists of "open" seems to be nc_tol, and this sets the "chaining tolerence" in screen->configure. From my work, it seems that this tolereence is coupled to both the minimum length of an ent to be considered a branch and the "openness" of a chain (ie, the minimum distance between two endpoints to be considered that two entities are not "connected") thus, if this variable is set to a higher number, a more chains would be considered "closed", but also increases the likliehood of a branch being detected. I would like have it so that open chains are not detected, and branches are also not detected...is there a way to do this? or do I not make any sense at all? Thanks!
  9. when i use this method, sometimes I get error message: Error converting solid face to trimmed surface Put untrimmed surface on a new level any ideas what causes a surface to be untrimmable?
  10. given a solid part, is it possible to convert it to a surface? Thanks!
  11. I just press F5 actually to go into debug... I don't get the error on startup, I only get the error when i reach a db_init() line...and if i comment out the db_init(), i get the same error when I reach a store_ent line... Thanks bullines!
  12. I am programming a chook with MSVC++. When I debug the chook, I get an error "Unhandled exception in Mill9.exe (PSKERNEL.DLL) 0xC0000005: Access Violation" when the code reaches dbinit() or store_ent(). However, when I acutally run the dll from Mastercam, I receive no errors. Any idea what the problem could be? Thanks!
  13. any ideas under what circumstances it won't work?

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