Camcraft (NeoTech) errors

7 recurring problems engineers report in Camcraft (NeoTech), ranked by impact.

#62 by errors trackedMCAD

Recurring Camcraft (NeoTech) errors, by impact

  1. 1Contour a 40 x 40 x 30 box with a 4 mm cutter that has 12 mm flutes and a 6 mm shank. verify returns 'ok': true with 84 findings, every one marked shank_hit and blocks_post. The Fanuc post then refuses with 84 warnings. A 3D finish on a test STEP gives ok: true with 3,232 blocking findings. The hits are real, the summary flag is wrong.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  2. 2The issue behind PR #713: CAM refuses to post a tap because CAD models the hole the normal way, at tap-drill size, while the gouge check sweeps the tap at full major diameter. The only way through was to remodel the hole at the thread's major diameter, which makes the CAD wrong.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  3. 3The STEP importer never reads LENGTH_UNIT, so a metre file imports 1000 times too small and an inch file 25.4 times too small, with no message either way. Such a part generates, verifies and posts a correct-looking CAM program at the wrong size, and no import scale command exists to fix it after the fact.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  4. 4A plain cylinder exported from CAD was refused as if a feature crossed the rotary seam because a refinement leaned the axis by tens of microradians on rounding noise.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  5. 5CAD models a tapped hole at tap-drill size while the CAM sim swept the tap at full major diameter, so every normal tapped hole failed the post gate.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  6. 6In a CAM tool, a STEP model imported coarser than the importer's 0.005 mm promise only left a line on stderr. Its facets sit inside the true surface on convex walls, so a real gouge up to the mesh error could pass verification. The fix flags the model, tightens gouge checks by the excess, and refuses operations once the excess eats the whole tolerance.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  7. 7The MCP feature listing reports both flat caps of a cylinder as facing 'up'. Agents pick faces by that field for mates, lay-on-points and work offsets, so a bottom face read as 'up' can put a part on the wrong side with no refusal. A test had to pick the bottom cap by Z height to get around it.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report66

How it fails

  1. Agent failure7

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