Hello folks, new here and using 2D3Dv8 on an AMD chipset with 4G of RAM. I am doing line work in 3D and having problem with the fill working and not working at times. Also generating fill zones that are not connected by any lie or direct parent child link. Will post a copy of the 3D line drawing.

I have gone through the manual 3 times and still no joy and noted that at times it will fill normal (click inside a closed area and you get a nice fill) other times it will only fill after clicking on which lines are involved in that surface. Last two are either skipping lines when doing a fill or generating an area as stated above, which have no direct or from what I can find indirect link and creating a fill.

Thanks for the help and so far am finding it a very useful program. Better then some other CAD software I have used. Just need to get this fixed as this is part of my business and need to be able to ship these models for CAM work and g-code creation.

Thanks,

Michael

Hi Michael


See attached I used cover surface tool on each area instead of fill, and then the stitch tool to generate a solid that can be exported to cam packages.

Files was saved in Shark LT v8 so it has the .slt extension but you can open in ViaCAD.

Regards

Jason

Do you mind me asking which CAM program you're using?
I use CamBam and find it works really well with ViaCAD.


Martin.

Martin,

I currently use CamBam for 2.5D cutting work (still learning how to use the 3D abilities of CamBam as curve is a bit steep). I use BobCAD/CAM for complex 2.5D (angled surfaces and surfaces where the bottom of the pocket IS the important part). I am currently working on learning CamBam more and looking at adding Aspire to the knowledge base as I really like the layout and tool set up of Aspire over CamBam (though CamBam is much better at making clean code then BobCAD/CAM [wish I had never bought it, but a lesson learned]).

Back to the fill/surfacing. pocket number three from the end with the small pockets will not allow me to surface it. I have checked direction and that does not seem to be the problem and also check all the lines and they are the correct measure for full connection. Also have surfaces touching all the lines. So any help for what I am missing would be greatly appreciated.

If any of you folks are interested in what this goes to, it is half of a professional grade 12 hole chromatic harmonica comb. once I get some cut will post a link on my website (soon to go live, pain in the backside). I will have various items that I have done design and reverse engineering of on there and from now on VC will be the program that the design work is done in.

I just have to figure out how to build the libraries of all the parts I use often (varying M2 bolts, M1.6, M1.4; gaskets, valves, springs, reed forms). I really like how well the program lets me build quickly and accurately the parts I need for projects. makes setting up for cutting, shaping much easier and the 2D let's me send designs to some of my mentors for them to give feed back and show where I might be doing something the hard way or have found a solution to a problem in a different fashion.

Thanks for building this program guys/gals and thanks even more for making it affordable for us small business's.

Michael Marino, DC
Owner: Free Reed Foolery.

Edited to add update image for ease of seeing the problem wiring section.