Mastercam Solids won't break into curves.

[Straightup]

My 1st post here. I used Mastercam from 2000 - 2015 daily, then had 6 years where I didn't use it and now getting back into it heavily - I'm on 2022 version.
I've had lots of solids to break out, and just hit "curve all edges" to break them out into lines / arc's that I can 2D machine and it has worked great.
I have a solid on my current file that won't break? It's from a step file, and I have broke solids from those files before, but not this one.
I can see some features and analyze them, but can't trim extend, or make any contour toolpaths with it - it doesn't see any lines / arcs that it will pick for machining.
Thanks in advance.

 

[plastikdreams]

What I do in x2 is save the wire frame as a dxf. That usually does the trick...I haven't used 2022 so not sure if it'll work.

 

[Straightup]

Thank you. I'll give that a try.

 

[OVodov]

Try to use SIMPLIFY SPLINE.

 

[Areo Defense]

Can MC stay within the model and use it's faces/edges? If you can I'd would stay away from re-creating what's already there.

 

[OVodov]

Can MC stay within the model and use it's faces/edges? If you can I'd would stay away from re-creating what's already there.

Yes it can.
People came from MC X-era version rarely use this function. Solid chaining now is much more simple and more intuitive than it was before.

 

[Mtndew]

Is it a sheet solid? Or a close solid body.
Analyze Entity and click on the model, what does it say near the top of the window that pops up?

 

[TFarrell9]

I'm not sure what you mean by "breaking out solids", but after you select "curve all edges", you need to select the solid body. If there is only one solid active/visible, it will automatically select it, and you can hit the green check.

If there is more than one solid active/visible, you have to select the solid you want to have the curves generated on. Triple left-clicking will select the entire solid body of a single solid, then hit green check. If there are more than one solid to select, I just window all of them, then hit the green check.

 

[Straightup]

Thank you everyone for your responses.
I got slammed at work with other projects, so I haven't been able to look at this yet.
I'll update this thread when I can try these suggestions and get back to it.