Unified Toolpath Question

[riverhunter]

MC 2024. Cant share file.

Application: Finishing a 10.0" long helical part on a 4th axis that has a 18 deg flat entry and exit on the other end. 

unified is giving me a nice path to finish the floor, but its not continuing to the flat section.  Swarf works just fine with a single pass.  any buttons or switches Im missing to keep it down and continue off the part?

top 2 pics are unified an the btm pic is swarf

 

[Kyle F]

How are you driving the unified toolpath?

what tool? what are your machining geometries + what is your cut pattern?

There are sections that look a little funky, so you may need a mixture of multiple toolpaths at the minimum and possibly multiple finish tools depending.

Really hard to tell without a file though, sorry.

[Aaron Eberhard]

Right off the hop, I'm guessing that's caused by a collision control strategy.  Turn off your collision control and then see if it generates the complete pass. 

[riverhunter]

50 minutes ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

Right off the hop, I'm guessing that's caused by a collision control strategy.  Turn off your collision control and then see if it generates the complete pass. 

 

Thank you very much!  that was the issue!

[Aaron Eberhard]

1 hour ago, riverhunter said:

 

Thank you very much!  that was the issue!

You're welcome!

Let me know if you need some training on the best practices when using the toolpath.  There's a few of us here who do it, and it's a fairly involved toolpath.