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Tips for cleaning up optirough/rest toolpaths


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Do any of you guys have suggestions for cleaning up, or "trimming the fat" from optirest toolpaths?  I can't share the file I'm working on, but it seems to make lots of unnecessary cuts where it's taking very little material, if any.  At this stage I'm really just trying to get material out, and not too concerned about getting terribly close to shape.  For reference, I'm using a 2" indexable tool from Ingersoll with a .062" corner rad.  I have my cutting parameters set to 60" stepover, .350" step up and down.  I had read that setting stepup and stepdown the same will look for only the flats, but it doesn't seem to be doing that on my part.  It still seems to be finding angled walls and trying to generate them.  

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So it is true that setting step up same as step down will ensure it machines all flats but it does not make it machine only the flats.  Since you are machining with a "low" step down you are likely machining your angled walls during the step down. The toolpath satisfied it's function since it met the .350 step down and machined as close as it could to your model geometry.

 

Another way to tackle it to avoid the wall would be to make a 2D wireframe at the root of the angle wall and doing an a 2D dynamic based off that and just machine it with stepdowns?

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