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.

Ron's been reading all of his management books.

Very true though.

+1 to Kannon. Also, are they splines by chance?

Check in the config to see where the NC files are being sent. My setup sheets always followed my nc files.

the chip load has been cut in half. I would double the feedrate and see what sounds that makes...

But that's just me. 6.0 IPM is purdy darn slow.

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.

Converted the chains to splines, regenerated and it crashed.

Guess it'll be a few more minutes.

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.

Thanks Thad. It is irritating. My op is waiting for this program and I said "it'll be only a minute". Yeah right!

MR1

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.

In the solid selection you should see edge, and complete solid.

Make sure you have JUST the edge selection on.

A little off topic, but I have never had the option to send anything when I had crashed previously.

Its buried here in this thread.... arc filtering

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.

hmm.... I can't remember. I never even noticed the bar on the side.

But then again I couldn't tell you the color of my bathroom.

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.

Just like you Thad... always trying to find the easy way out.

too funny Jay

it is on the contour pop up under the orange direction arrows

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.

Not following you Dave.

I get the toolpath in the op manager when I create new paths.

Pops up right away.

looks like it is telling you what you need to change in the machine def John.

Home position must be updated for the new machine.

me too John.

I ended up making single my select default because of that window.