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Some are guessing its surfaces you are triming and some think its arcs.
Both helpful in eiether case.
I would add to the surface trim though. Mastercam will trim to View or to normal. If your wireframe is NOT on the surfaces you may get some pretty weird results if you trim to Normal.
Trimming to view will in effect make the surfaces cut to that particular view to which you see the wireframe as it crosses the surfaces.
Not that I am aware of. It works for me fine. Sure it wasn't an OE? Maybe more were selected than you knew of.
If I have only one dirty op I use the regen dirty ops so I know only those will be regenerated.
Just left click.
It's weird.
Say all are checked and I want to only have op 5 checked. If I click on op 5 nothing happens or the box opens to change name. So I click on op4 and all are deselected except for op 4. After that I can left click op 5 and all is well.
Strange is all.
Even if all are selected you would think you could just click on ONE and it would unselect all of the others but it doesn't work that way. It is kind of an odd behavior.
Click on the op I don't want selected and it works.
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I had two chains for a boundary on my solid model for a surface contour.
The program was written but I had a gouge,so I created surfaces from the solid added them to my geometry and regenerated.
Now I am getting the nested boundary error analyze chain.
Come on... what gives? It is the same program for my larger roughing cutter and that wrote fine with the exact same geometry minus the surfaces.
there are four boxes to the left of the green accept button on the bar. Three are depressed as default I believe. Click on the face and the complete solid to turn them off. this will leave just edge selected.
THere was a thread a day or two ago about filter settings.
I would suggest doing a search for filter on the forum.
Seems like some machines prefer no arc filtering, but it's all in the thread.
Nope.
Those are trimmed surface and need the reference slab.
Best way to clean it up to make sure everything you don't need is gone is to...
Save some... choose the surfaces you want.
Call that file up and convert to iges.
Slabs are necessary.
Offsetting it as in collapsing the curve I assume?
Not sure how'd you get around that. The curve is controlled by nodes so when you collapse it some nodes have nowhere to go. So it can get ugly.
May end up just cleaning the curve up afterwards.
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