Bring in the containment boundary I upped and leave everything in his toolpath as is. Just go into the parameters in the opps mgr and select my boundary as a center.

Use a containment boundary.

Alternatively, pressing the "Alt" key and the "Print Screen" key at the same time will copy the current window to the clipboard and pressing the "Print Screen" key alone will send the entire screen to the clipboard.

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You will have to creat a 2d spiral pocketing program and project it onto your surfaces. It will only work well if you are cutting a relatively simple, circular, dome-like shape. Hope this helps.

In my past experiences that feature recognition stuff doesn't work so hot. I've tried using it a couple of times in SolidWorks. It generally tends to only recognize very simple stuff. No blending fillets, shell operations or anything like that. It takes quite some calculating time also, just like knitting surfaces into solids. That doesn't work all the time either. I'm not knocking it. I just don't want you to think it is a miracle tool.

Too bad your on the other side of the state. I'm near Philly and pretty much fit the bill. Jobs in this area are getting pretty slim.

I would brobably use flowline across the multiple flat surfaces and use flowline with check surfaces for the fillets. You should also try and use a smaller cutter. Trying to use a ball-end mill to "form cut" in a surface path usually gives you poor results.

Last place I worked we had a Roeders RFM 600 and a RFM 760. Talk about nice machines......How about a 42000rpm Fischer HSK spindle. 1,100ipm feed, 10,000 block look ahead, Laser tool setter, touch probe, 10gig hard drive with a dual processor Win/NT controller and a 10/100 Base-T LAN connection. The best 3D surfacing machine I've ever used. Very limited flat endmill use and no drilling. It could leave some increadible finishes on hard steel though. More time was usually spent in Mastercams toolpath calculation time than in the machine run time. You know that when you have to lock the doors before you can fire the spindle up.....Your in for some serious metal removal. Oh yeah, those doors have double pane safety glass in them also.

Hey, I'm also a graduate of Stevens Tech. Class of '94. On my diploma it just says "Machine Technology". Do they have Mastercam there now?

Here the thread. I asked how to do this a couple of months ago. http://www.emastercam.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000444.html

You could also use the bitmap image as wallpaper in Mastercam and trace over it.

Ambassador, That is exactly what I was talking about. Thanks a bunch.

Is there any way I can use Toolpath Editor in the Operations Manager to remove a section of a Scallop toolpath? I've tried a couple of things and haven't got the results I'm looking for..... I would like to be able to remove about 50 or 60 passes at a time or be able to remove all the subsequent passes to the end of the path after the pass or point I select. Is this possible?

James, You are right, iges doesn't directly support solids, but some software will knit the surfaces into a solid body. eg. Cadkey SolidWorks 2k. Maybe that's what Mark is referring to. What version of ProE are you running. I was told the translator will not work with ProE 2000i2, which is the newest version of ProE. We bought the STEP converter for this reason. So far I've been happy with it. Cadkey 99/2000 and SolidWorks 2000 both have STEP converters included. If you have access to either of those you can import the STEP file into one of those and export it as a Parasolids or Ascis type file.

I drew an example up and mailed it to you. I think it's what your asking for. The part that I sent you was modeled in v8 Solids and converted to surfaces. The same thing could be obtained by modeling with only surfaces. It would just take longer and require more patience and a bottle of Asprin. Let me know if I can help.

What ever happened to the Wallpaper and Logo functions? They seemed to have disappeared after v6. I was trying to give my v8 a ProE looking background the other day and for the life of me I couldn't find it.