BobCad 22 Newbie

[jmcglynn]

I just bought and installed BobCad 22, the pro version with Z-axis routines.

The first issue I've run into is that I can't use 2D operations or drill operations on 3D parts. This doesn't make any sense... For example, I have a simple 3D part I designed in SolidWorks and imported (I've had this same behavior importing parts as .sldprt and .step).

If I add a drill operation I can't select the hole geometry. I tried making it a contour, but the contour command doesn't succeed (no error, it just fails silently).

So the only option is to lay out 2D geometry to select it for the holes -- not good.

Also, on the Z-Axis rough and finish operations, even if I tell it to "ignore holes" it plunges into the three screw holes in this part...

Anyone have some guidance here? Is this just buggy software? (it crashes fairly often, I have a fast CPU and 4GB of ram)

Joe

[COMMAND JOHN]

Go to utilites >> and extract edges and you can select holes.

In 3D select outer most only.

And yes it is buggy in some 2D.

[tjones]

You can also use the project to surface using a plane after extracting the edges. Then cleanup and optimize and erase doubles.