Does HSMWORKS TRACE treat "arcs" as "splines" when they are not modeled as "splines"?
Wondering if anyone has run into this problem.
I'm trying to program the chamfer on a moderately involved part using trace because the chamfer geometry involves some edges that change in Z as well as X and Y. Everything is modeled with arcs and lines only. NO SPLINES. However, when I use TRACE, it puts in a lot of end-points as if it were a spline.
To test it, I selected a circle and used both TRACE and 2D-CONTOUR for that same circle. TRACE handled it as an arc, putting in a bunch of end-points and 2D-CONTOUR treated it as a circle using G3.
Is this yet another bug or am I not properly understanding the TRACE strategy?
Thanks,
gm
Wondering if anyone has run into this problem.
I'm trying to program the chamfer on a moderately involved part using trace because the chamfer geometry involves some edges that change in Z as well as X and Y. Everything is modeled with arcs and lines only. NO SPLINES. However, when I use TRACE, it puts in a lot of end-points as if it were a spline.
To test it, I selected a circle and used both TRACE and 2D-CONTOUR for that same circle. TRACE handled it as an arc, putting in a bunch of end-points and 2D-CONTOUR treated it as a circle using G3.
Is this yet another bug or am I not properly understanding the TRACE strategy?
Thanks,
gm