3D Engrave Help

[[email protected]]

Can anyone check out my file and give me some guidance on creating a 3D toolpath? It would be for a Hurco VMX42SRTi with 4th axis head. I already have a toolpath that follows contour, but I think I will get a better engrave by keeping tool tangent to curve. 

Post-IT Housing IkII.mcam

[crazy^millman]

2 hours ago, [email protected] said:

Can anyone check out my file and give me some guidance on creating a 3D toolpath? It would be for a Hurco VMX42SRTi with 4th axis head. I already have a toolpath that follows contour, but I think I will get a better engrave by keeping tool tangent to curve. 

Post-IT Housing IkII.mcam

Curve 5 Axis toolpath use the base surface as the comp surface and done. Your surface normals are wrong so I trimmed the one surface not realizing they were flipped so the original surface might work if the normal is flipped correctly.

Changed the back plot axis to Y Axis so it would work.

Here you go.

5th Axis 5 Minute Exercise