solid vs striped surfaces

[Geppetto82]

Good morning to all,
It's just that we've been adventured in the world of cam.
we use x3 mastercam.
I would like to ask for information:
is it better to use trimmed surfaces or solid?
a collaborator who made us start advised us to use solid, our tertis account instead uses trimmed surfaces.
what depends on using one or another?
from the type of model to be realized?

thank you in advance to those who will answer me.
greetings
geppetto82

 

[maurice72]

hi, I am doing a course on mastercam x4 , x what I know with the surfaces the calculations of the paths are faster and also roughness is better if the surface is done well but a surface is purple while the solid is inviolable you will never plant, if possible updated to mastercam x5 or x6 have light improvements.

 

[Geppetto82]

thanks maurice72, better so in fact we are using the surfaces!
soon

 

[Geppetto82]

I apologize for ignorance, but what do you mean by violable and inviolable?
Thank you.
Hi.

 

[Geppetto82]

I have another question:
it does not take me the function close holes in both trimmed and solid surfaces mode.
I go to "create", "superfici", "chiudi holes": I select the face, the contour, and I give theok.
it is seen that it creates a different color surface at the hole, but when I launch the simulation the tool sticks in the hole.
We can't understand why, it's a trivial operation we've done dozens of times now. .
Thank you.
greetings
geppetto82

 

[maurice72]

hi, maybe you have some other active function or you're trying to close a hole that doesn't lie entirely on a floor. In this case you have to recreate the surface (on another level ) and then narrow it with the edge of the hole to be closed using the function extracted edges from a face.
Inviolable I mean that the tool should never be planted on solid, instead on the surfaces you can also give a negative overmetal i.e. "eating" more.

 

[Geppetto82]

Hi.
Then I wouldn't want it because of the bevel.
the hole lies on the same floor but is preceded by a bevel.
send attachment to understand better.
fact is that when I make the stopper function and the surface is created, this covers both the bevel and the hole, so in theory it should work, but it is not so....

Thank you.
Hi.

 

[maurice72]

Hi, you have to close the two holes in your pocket ? with the close holes function approached with the cursor as much as possible to the edge of the bevel while still remaining outside, alternatively you can delete the restriction of the surface of the bottom with create-superfici-repristina or try to extract the edge of the bevel and create-superfici-profile plan

 

[luigix]

the holes of the surface does not close them because he can not recognize the surfaces, the same discourse of the trimmed surfaces or not......work with mastercam every day and to make changes to the solids I do them with programs that only do that,before....tw I recommend it....I remind you that mastercam is a cam first and not allows you to do things that you could do with solid modeling programs....l.

 

[maurice72]

hi luigi, you are definitely right though if you only have mastercam you try, I wanted to ask you your opinion on 3d mastercam processing (I use x4 ) and what you usually use (between those old and/or those new high speed surfaces ) .thanks

 

[luigix]

Since I started with the 9 and then passed to x standard I dug my programming to that version also because at work I have that version of mcx but on my personal pc I had x5 and today I have x4 for 3d high speed processing I saw something on these versions but nn so him as to reason from a point of view of codes and coordinates that elaborates cmq if you send me your email address in pvt

 

[Geppetto82]

the holes of the surface does not close them because he can not recognize the surfaces, the same discourse of the trimmed surfaces or not......work with mastercam every day and to make changes to the solids I do them with programs that only do that,before....tw I recommend it....I remind you that mastercam is a cam first and not allows you to do things that you could do with solid modeling programs....l.

Hi.
the fact of closing the holes is a momentary passage.
In the sense, the pocket drizzles with a cutter, while the holes with a tip.
in the first passage I close the holes momentarily so as not to let us enter the mill, in the second passage I reactive them.
Isn't this a standard operation?
So how do you say I should make different configurations with solidworksthe same solid depending on the work I have to do?