2d swept

[Rocketmachinist]

Does anyone else have a problem with the 2d swept toolpath in 2023. We seem to run into a ton of problems related to bad geometry extracted from a solid model. Once we fix the geometry with new stuff the path works great.

[JParis]

Can you define "bad geometry"?

wireframe paths only work on lines & arcs...if you're getting splines, yeah, those have to be cleaned up . That's "usually" a solid geometry issue....several factors, including how the geometry was built, and any angle, minute as it might be can affect the wireframe creation off the solid

[Rocketmachinist]

So the first time we did it the arcs from the radius's were splines, it wouldn't even get to the popup page and just error out saying our plane is wrong. I converted them with break many and the toolpath worked. We tried the same thing again later this time we made sure the across was set as an arc and not a spline. It got through to the toolpath parameters page and we clicked ok. The toolpath never processed and gave us only a 6k file. The tool path wouldn't backplot. So I checked all the geometry and it was all arcs and lines. I redrew the along geometry using "create rectangular shape" and it worked fine.

[JParis]

5 minutes ago, Rocketmachinist said:

So the first time we did it the arcs from the radius's were splines, it wouldn't even get to the popup page and just error out saying our plane is wrong. I converted them with break many and the toolpath worked. We tried the same thing again later this time we made sure the across was set as an arc and not a spline. It got through to the toolpath parameters page and we clicked ok. The toolpath never processed and gave us only a 6k file. The tool path wouldn't backplot. So I checked all the geometry and it was all arcs and lines. I redrew the along geometry using "create rectangular shape" and it worked fine.

That sounds like a bit of an "odd" case....if you can recreate that, I would say send in into QC

I don't know how you created the geometry but I generally try to use Create Curve slice in cases like these

[AMCNitro]

3 hours ago, Rocketmachinist said:

So the first time we did it the arcs from the radius's were splines, it wouldn't even get to the popup page and just error out saying our plane is wrong. I converted them with break many and the toolpath worked. We tried the same thing again later this time we made sure the across was set as an arc and not a spline. It got through to the toolpath parameters page and we clicked ok. The toolpath never processed and gave us only a 6k file. The tool path wouldn't backplot. So I checked all the geometry and it was all arcs and lines. I redrew the along geometry using "create rectangular shape" and it worked fine.

What I do when I get splines instead of arcs is I make points on each end and the middle of the spline, then I create an arc with 3 point arc.  Much better than break many