- FORMATS IMPORT INTO EDGECAM HOW TO
- FORMATS IMPORT INTO EDGECAM VERIFICATION
- FORMATS IMPORT INTO EDGECAM SOFTWARE
Really not in its wheel house and rightfully so since STL, Tessellation and any other ways someone want to call it is just that a skeleton of the real thing. Process sheets are a basic engineering requirement so why don't mastercam help and sort it! But I do not have vericut and cannot kep asking for step files from a third party. The closest I got to was have my mastercam file run through vericut and save stock as step, stl dumped. How easy would it be to use the OP1 stl to dimension and create a stage drawing but to no avail. OP1 for instance can have 1mm left on 1 edge and other features not machined, so main drawing becomes redundant.
FORMATS IMPORT INTO EDGECAM VERIFICATION
I do use stl at each stage for verification and it works great, but where it lets me down is in process sheets. Or they will turn the STL into a solid that doesn't contain accurate original data, or is simply unusable for machiningįound this tread very interesting, I find stl's a right ball ache.
FORMATS IMPORT INTO EDGECAM SOFTWARE
You will have to watch with some software because they will say things like "automatically convert an STL to a SOLID" and by automatic, they mean "individually select areas that you want to turn into solid faces". STLs are essentially the lowest common denominator CAD file you can get. If a verification was cutting a 'true solid', the processing required would be astronomical. So why do people even use them? Because any cad model can be degraded into an STL, and they're easier to use when it comes to rendering because the data in them is essentially the same throughout you have vertexes and vertices. with a complicated STl file it will most likely ife with problems and take a long time to convert. there's a lot of decision making that any sort of converter would have to do. it's made of lots of polygons (triangles) so a software has to essentially convert those all to faces of a solid, and given solids have faces, volume, edges, midpoints of edges, etc.
FORMATS IMPORT INTO EDGECAM HOW TO
Once you make an STL - to get it back into a solid takes a lot of 'decision making' on how to treat features. Here's the bacon of the salad:an STL just doesn't have the same data as a solid. you can also use Stock model which can be generated from an stl file. Is this for rest machining or checking accuracy in the verify? For what it sounds like you're trying to do a solid shouldn't be necessary. then you can use op10 to make the stock for op20 exactly like it is in the machine. and modify your wcs so that its correct for each toolpath group. but basically you make multiple operations in one file. Im sure there has to be a thread on here somewhere about how to do it. (op10) then the second toolpath group(op20) or for that matter skip stock models altogether and just run verify on the first toolpath group. You could in fact use different WCS so that you could make your final stock model from your first op be the stock for your second op. and then align it to your op20 operation. You could save the STL file from verify and then bring it into your op20 file. the stl file format is pretty useless in that its a mesh. It would be amazing if Mastercam would in fact save a verified part as a solid. at least not the way your trying to do it.
There really is no way to do what your trying do.