Solid Fix Question

[G Caputo]

Good day all,

 

I have a solid drawn in inventor 7, that low and behold has a pocket screwed up on it. It is 3.25" tall x 2.75" wide x 2.75" deep. It also has an undercut on 1 edge at the bottom. It was created with too small of fillets on it if you were looking down from the top. My question is: If I was to extrude stock back into the hole making it 1/4" bigger on the widths and depths that was there and the create geometry and extrude the proper stock back out of my solid I created, would it cause a problem when creating toolpaths? Will it mastercam still see the inventor solid also?

 

Thanks,

Greg

[Zero]

I'm not quite sure I follow what you're trying to do, but I would say no, you wont have any problems with your new surfaces/solids and I believe MC should be able to read the Inventor solid.

 

[ 06-13-2003, 12:41 PM: Message edited by: Zero ]

[G Caputo]

Ezra,

I filled in the pocket drawn by Inventor with a solid I created in Mastercam, 1/4" bigger than what was there, then I created the new geometry and extrude cut it back out of the mastercam solid. My question is does mastercam think the pocket that was "filled in", or does it think it now has 2 pockets in there? OK, it just hit me like a ton of bricks...Don't try putting the solids together. Keep them on different levels and use the proper one when I machine that area of the part. Sometimes the mind just becomes overloaded and tired...

 

Greg

[Fig sign]

Analize ->surfaces->check solid and perform a check of your solid !

And you can always get surfaces from solid ,edit them if you need and make toolpath from them !

 

 

Iskander teh nobody's fool !