[Andrew D]

Hi, this is my first post.
I've been using solidcam for a few weeks now, trying with some (slow) success to mill some parts for furniture out of timber.
I have an assembly with multiple instances of a three different parts (about 60 in all). It's rather tedious to go through each part selecting the same thing to define geometry (drilling, profiles, faces for HSS) separately for each instance.
Is there not some way to select every instance of a feature? OK I could do it for most of the holes, but the profiles and faces are eluding me.
Thanks for your help,
Andrew

[Brakeman Bob]

Program one part.
Then select all the jobs in the Job Tree
Right click and select "Transform"
Choose the option "Translate" and input the incremental values of your repeat parts.
Click OK and voilá, there are multiple instances of your part.

It's all there in the help screens

[glovebox20]

Program one part.
Then select all the jobs in the Job Tree
Right click and select "Transform"
Choose the option "Translate" and input the incremental values of your repeat parts.
Click OK and voilá, there are multiple instances of your part.



It's all there in the help screens

This method only works if your post supports "transform operations".

[partur]

Transform Tutorial


glovebox20 is right, if the transformation does not work for you, this means that you need to complete the code postprocessor

Of course you can do it another way. For example, such

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[Andrew D]

Thanks for your quick responses.
Because I'm trying to get the most out of a sheet of bamboo which already has some irregular holes in it, the parts are not evenly distributed across the board, so I'm guessing the transform technique would not work for me.
I can go through the design tree and select each instance of, in one case, sketch 5, but I thought there may be a more time -efficient way.
Any other ideas?

[Brakeman Bob]

How about taking the work datum out of the cutting program and then calling the cutting program from a control program that has the different work datums declared in that.

In FANUC that is either using G10's to set multiple instances of G54 or using G54, G55 etc. to set multiple instances via the datum table.

[mattpatt]

You can still use transform for irregular spacing. Transform / List.....and then put in the coordinates of each origin....BINGO!!