[timmydabull]

i have been working with solids for about 3 months now,when i first enquired how to machine multiple operations on a part i was instructed to copy the part to another level,and rotate the part to use top coordinate for toolpathing.

by the end of a machining operation it would be common to wind up with 4 or 5 multiple copies of the solid on several levels.

the problem lies when i go to make a change to the solid model i would get lost,and the main level would have multiple copies of the wireframe tangled together,making it impossible to edit the geometry,usuall resulting in starting over again.

i gathered this was because the Make Main Level Always Visible box was checked and when i would copy the geometry to another level it would add another copy to the wireframe main level as well.(i always start out as wireframe on level 1).

after wasting much time over the last several months i started use just the original solid and rotate it around to create the different toolpath operations that i needed,and when i went to make a change to the model it was simple and easy to edit and keep track of the solid history.

is it common to create multiple copies of a part position on several levels the way i was doing it or is using a single model much more common?

using one model and rotating to create toolpaths certainly seems the way to go.

seems i have been learing the hard way.


thank you