Controlling the Orientation of Disassembled Solids or Mesh Bodies

By default, Mastercam orients disassembled solid and mesh bodies on their largest, flat face. In previous versions of Mastercam, the only way to control the orientation of the disassembled solids was to enable Face Selection and disable Body Selection on the Selection Bar. This action made it possible to place specific faces on the layout plane. Unfortunately, you could not use this method if the opposing faces of the selected bodies were equal.

To provide more control in these situations, Mastercam 2024 lets you use the color of a face to orient the disassembled bodies. To do this, click the Sample color button in the Disassemble panel’s Face Color section and choose a color from the graphics window.

If you cannot easily select the face color in the graphics window, you can also click Select color to choose a color from the Colors dialog box. Mastercam continues to disassemble the part placing the largest, flattest face of a body towards the layout plane. However, it will also place any face of this color that is the same size of its opposing face towards the layout plane.