I'm trying to reverse engineer a gasket by using the part it goes in. It's a flat surface with a gasket receiver groove. I'm using v4.1 .
I do the part alignment, then take two points with joystick in the "PART" coordinate system (part is at a 15° angle to the table).
I start the trace, and it slowly climbs in Z out of the groove. The start points have a different Z value, so I set them identical. (they should have been already, but were off .001") It still climbs out. So I have to manually set the vectors, and as I change them, they keep changing back a little. After I do this a couple of times, they stay put and the trace comes out fine.
Is there a way to just tell it I want an XY trace?
I do the part alignment, then take two points with joystick in the "PART" coordinate system (part is at a 15° angle to the table).
I start the trace, and it slowly climbs in Z out of the groove. The start points have a different Z value, so I set them identical. (they should have been already, but were off .001") It still climbs out. So I have to manually set the vectors, and as I change them, they keep changing back a little. After I do this a couple of times, they stay put and the trace comes out fine.
Is there a way to just tell it I want an XY trace?
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