Warnings and errors reference

After generating a toolpath in the Manufacture workspace, the toolpath may sometimes get marked with a warning symbol. The yellow exclamation symbol indicates that a toolpath was generated successfully but with one or more warnings.

If a toolpath requires regenerating, the toolpath gets marked with an error symbol that appears as a red exclamation mark to let you know the toolpath is out of date.

Warning example

When a warning appears, to see what the warning is, double-click the yellow triangle exclamation mark.

Note: You can also right-click a toolpath and click Show Log to see the error log.

In the image below, the 2D Adaptive toolpath cannot machine the selected areas because there is not enough room for a Ramp with the given settings.

example

This displays the following warning in the Log:

browser message log dialog

The Ramp settings are:

Ramp settings

The illustration below shows how having a Minimum Ramp Diameter of 0.6 in and a tool diameter of 0.375 in means there is no room for the tool to ramp into the cutting move.

illustration for 0.6 in shows tool cannot helix into cut

1 - Minimum Ramp Diameter

2 - Tool diameter

The illustration below shows how changing the Minimum Ramp Diameter to 0.3 in and a tool diameter of 0.375 in means there is more room for the tool to ramp into the cutting move without colliding into the part.

illustration for 0.3 in shows tool can enter the cut

1 - Minimum Ramp Diameter

2 - Tool diameter

After changing the Minimum Ramp Diameter, there is no longer an empty toolpath:

resulting toolpath

Note: the area width to be cut has to be wider than the sum of the tool diameter, Radial Stock to Leave, and the Minimum Ramp Diameter.

Hide warnings

If you decide that a warning for an operation does not require further attention, you can choose to hide the warning from the Browser, to allow you to focus on other warnings or errors. The warning remains hidden until the operation is regenerated. Errors always remain visible.

In the Browser, click the warning icon to view the warning in the log.
Select the Hide warnings checkbox.

Note: You can still view the warnings by right-clicking the operation in the Browser and selecting Show Log.

Error example

Most of the time, a toolpath gets out of date because the geometry it is referencing has been changed.

In the animation below, a toolpath is created by referencing some geometry as the Contour Selection and then that geometry is changed, which causes the toolpath to go out of date. The toolpath is regenerated and the new geometry is automatically referenced.

To regenerate a toolpath, right-click the toolpath and select Generate.

toolpath error