Rhino model comes in incorrect

Gary Woods · Post by **Gary Woods** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:34 am

I'm having a problem with a Rhino model that I'm trying to bring into VM. I've tried rebuilding the surfaces in various ways, and it still doesn't come in right. Is there a way I can attach and image of it to illustrate?

Happy VM5 User · Post by **Happy VM5 User** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:21 pm

Hello Gary,
I had the same problem. I wanted to import a special stock,
as the part came from a lathe and I had to continue 5axis milling.
It is important, the model must be closed for stock, say, not several surfaces but they must be joined together to one complete, closed surface, like a solid. Then it should work.
For a part, I made a solid in Cadkey,because I am more trained here
and then imported it to Rhino as a step file, then I had the Rhino 3DM
and could import this without problem into VM5.

Robert

Gary Woods · Post by **Gary Woods** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:35 pm

Yes, I tried that also, and they still came in wrong. I did some more tests. The surfaces that came in bad were trimmed, so I rebuilt them untrimmed, and they came in O-K. But I noticed later on that other trimmed surfaces (that were too small to notice) were also distorted.
The problem comes from the model being built in Rhino 3.0. I saved the same file as Rhino 2.0, and model came into Visual Mill intact.

Post by **MecSoft Support** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:27 pm

Gary,

Send us the Rhino file (at [email protected]) you are having the problem with and we will take a look. If you can isoloate the problem surface and send it to us it would be best.