I may change the title of this later but I wanted to start a thread on Simulation errors and what they mean/possible solutions. I had a weird one last night that I gave up on at about 12:30AM after hours of trying to figure out what was wrong.
Unknown exception by reading and parsing the XML file. Machine definition could not be loaded!
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I had a complex surfacing job that I need to tilt at an angle (no 4th, just mounting on a fixture plate in a secondary op) to finish out. I saved the machined stock in operation 1 and loaded that as stock for the second op. Apparently when I ran the Simulation on the first op, the accuracy at "Medium" created an STL that was just too "heavy" for the Simulation to load in the second file Simulation. I knew it had to be part specific because I could open other parts, use the same Machine Definition, and they were OK. It took me a while to figure out that the STL was the problem. I re-ran operation 1 in the simulation with the slider cranked to the low end and that finally knocked the file size for the STL down to a manageable size.
What I don't know is whether this is a RAM limitation or will the Simulation choke at a certain point no matter what? Keep in mind I only have Simulation - Standard. It's not like I have the fixture, machine, or any other STLs loaded. It just seemed like I hit the file size limit way early.
Anyway, if you encounter this warning, it is likely your STL is too heavy for the simulation to load.
When I looked for the solution to this problem last night, I found dozens of threads about various Simulation errors/warnings. I'd like for this to be a thread to report the solutions to these problem. If no one is interested, no worries.
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Unknown exception by reading and parsing the XML file. Machine definition could not be loaded!
I had a complex surfacing job that I need to tilt at an angle (no 4th, just mounting on a fixture plate in a secondary op) to finish out. I saved the machined stock in operation 1 and loaded that as stock for the second op. Apparently when I ran the Simulation on the first op, the accuracy at "Medium" created an STL that was just too "heavy" for the Simulation to load in the second file Simulation. I knew it had to be part specific because I could open other parts, use the same Machine Definition, and they were OK. It took me a while to figure out that the STL was the problem. I re-ran operation 1 in the simulation with the slider cranked to the low end and that finally knocked the file size for the STL down to a manageable size.
What I don't know is whether this is a RAM limitation or will the Simulation choke at a certain point no matter what? Keep in mind I only have Simulation - Standard. It's not like I have the fixture, machine, or any other STLs loaded. It just seemed like I hit the file size limit way early.
Anyway, if you encounter this warning, it is likely your STL is too heavy for the simulation to load.
When I looked for the solution to this problem last night, I found dozens of threads about various Simulation errors/warnings. I'd like for this to be a thread to report the solutions to these problem. If no one is interested, no worries.