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See if this works. In your cutoff parameters go into "stock update" and switch it to "keep piece in active chuck" That should keep your remaining stock in the chuck and the part will be in the chip tray
The solid sweep will only allow you to use ONE shape to follow along ONE contour or "Path". Meaning that you cannot change from one shape to another along a given path. Unlike the surface sweep.
Think of the Solid as being one across with one along. Obviously the surfaces give you much more control.
From MasterCam Help:
quote:
The Solids, Sweep function lets you sweep closed, planar chains of curves, called section chains, to create one or more new solid bodies.
Each Sweep operation has two editable geometry components: the underlying chains of curves (called section chains) that define a swept solid, cut, or boss and the chain of curves (called a path chain) that defines the path along which the section chains are swept to form the solid, cut, or boss.
You can have more than one shape Following along the same path, but it will result into seperate solids. Thats why I put this in bold letters (Each Sweep operation has two editable geometry components)
Now because you have more flexibility with the surfaces use those. Just like you can overcome the limitations of a "swept surface" by using a "Net surface". Having a choice is a good thing
So since you are teaching Mastercam Solids. It sounds to me that this is a perfect opportunity for you to show them how to build a solid from a surface and Boolean the solids together. Your students will learn a lot more from you this way, and they will know that they have options.
Good Luck.
I could'nt copy and paste it but take a look at page 41 In the "what's new in Mastercam X3" It should help. Sorry for the lame reply but the info is all there, and I have to pack up and go.
If you choose to bring in the features from solidworks, Mastercam connects to solidworks to bring in the history. So if you have SW open you will see the part and the features being sucked out of it. Once the file is in MC that file goes away in SW. It should not shut SW down though. It may close down that page. Also If SW is not open, In mastercam you will see a message at the bottom of the screen saying "connecting to solidworks". You should be fine, just double check to make sure SW is not shutting down completly, I'm betting that it is not.
Hope this helps.
Lossen up your cut tolerance and filter tolarance. They are way to tight to filter anything. I doubt your machine can even hold a .0005 tolarence. Also I would be suprised if your 3d contour is even dimensioned tighter than +/- .001 even at that, you have a total tolerance of .002....A .001 high and .001 low.
If you convert the file to a VDA file then read it back into mastercam that will convert all nurbs to parametric. The only way I know of to do it fast.
Just to make you feel better the auto cursor did not find endpoints of surface in V9. You still had to force it to endpoint.
So it still works the way it always has.
You can still pick the endpoint of the surface you will need to force the point selection to endpoint. The only difference is that it does not show the point like it did in V9. Just make sure you are set to 3d, if you want to see a point then create one at the endpoint of the surface and use that.
Hope this helps
If you are working in inch mode and grab a mm tool ex 8mm mastercam going to think that that means 8in. Here is a cool tip. If you type 8mm in th tool dia MC will convert it to inch. So when you backplot or verify it will look right.
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