FastPATH Issue

Matthew Johnston shared this question 14 months ago
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I seem to be running into an issue that I cannot narrow down and am losing hope that I will be able to find the solution. After researching everything I can think of that I believe is relevant to this I am starting to wonder if I have a setting that may be causing my issue.

I build my artwork in Illustrator and import and clean up in Rhino and then export as a dxf file with the cam metric setting after converting all curves. Then when I view and test the image in Fastcam (including view parts and holes) I see the artwork is identified correctly with no open paths or missing lines however after when Output NC code is applied and then viewed in FastPLOT the artwork is missing lines and no longer ready to cut. Is there anything else I might be missing, I have tried to apply the CAD compress and fix joints and verify contours (this one does occasionally identify something that the parts and holes miss but does not allow me to identify the incorrect node).

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Hi Matthew,

Thanks for getting in touch. What version of FastCAM are you running, and what is your dongle number? Looks like a V7, but would like to know exactly which one.

As for the missing lines, hard to say. Are you able to send me over the Drawing file you are trying to process through FastCAM Also?

Cheers,

Alex

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Using FastCam7 dongle number is 09929328


I have attempted to add some screenshots and also completed a service request in Fastcam and can attach the file it downloads.

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Apologies here are some of the attachments

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Hi Matthew,

Thank you for the extra information. Believe I have the problem here:

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Some of your "Arcs" Are so large in radius, that they need to be replaced with straight lines.


Sadly this is a limitation of the version you are running, and we cannot update that. You would need to look at going to FastCAM 8.


That said, for this one, I was able to use FastCAM 8's CAD Compress which looks to have done a much better job:

I will attach that in an email to you shortly!

Cheers,

Alex

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