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Imagine the statue of David. The z axis runs from head to toe and the work (feet) are mounted to a rotary axis of a multi axis machine. The statue is rendered in .stl format. It's pretty easy for me to imagine the tool path such that the area on the inside of David's thighs is cut as well as the area around his arms. 

I need a strategy to approach this. I am just learning multi axis machining and normal path generation is leaving much of the sculpture uncut.

Thank you! 

 

More detail. The material will be held by the sixth axis of an industrial robot and turned against a stationary cutter. The image is of a Vase instead of David but concept it the same

 

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On 4/17/2021 at 6:06 PM, Dancy said:

Imagine the statue of David. The z axis runs from head to toe and the work (feet) are mounted to a rotary axis of a multi axis machine. The statue is rendered in .stl format. It's pretty easy for me to imagine the tool path such that the area on the inside of David's thighs is cut as well as the area around his arms. 

I need a strategy to approach this. I am just learning multi axis machining and normal path generation is leaving much of the sculpture uncut.

Thank you! 

 

More detail. The material will be held by the sixth axis of an industrial robot and turned against a stationary cutter. The image is of a Vase instead of David but concept it the same

 

image.thumb.png.28edda17c6c374f52fc8fc999e5ad831.png

I would quote 60 hours of work if I were being asked to program it.

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