HST, trochoidal button

[Surface]

Using X2 Mr1.

I'm trying to use Core-roughing with trochoidal motion. The toolpath is placing loops where it is unnessasary (the outermost section) (bottom of picture).

What am I doing wrong?

[Ocean Lacky™]

the first thing that comes to mind is containment boundary not set right. I would set it to Center and have the boundary be similar to the size of your stock.

[cadcam]

Hey Surface is that a part for a Bike?

[Surface]

I'm not using a containment boundry. The blue surface represents the stock size. In the event no boundry is selected, HST uses that for its outermost limits.

[beej]

I like the idea of the trochoidal cuts. but I'm getting the same thing. I usually use a boundary. I know why I want them in the program but it's hard to justify using them to someone else when they see the unnecessary time added to the path. If I had better control over when they are used maybe I'd utilize them more.

[Surface]

By playing with different setting, I was able to get the path pretty nice looking. Now when I use high-feed to speed-up the air cuts, I get an "illegal arc" warning. wtf.

On the bright-side, I learned something new today. My 2-year old just stopped into the shop for a visit. He sat at my computer and by dragging desktop icons, he was able to open them in Internet Explorer. I never knew you could do that.

[beej]

Wow! how is he on networking, we could use a good IT guy.

[Jon Griffin CNC Software]

Surface,

 

I have an interest in your highfeed illegal arc warning. When does it happen? While highfeed is running, or when you post?

[Surface]

The error occurs in backplot. MC asks if you want to "mark invailid arc endpoint" and regardless of wether the box is checked or not, it pukes 115 points all over my screen.

For giggles I tried posting the file. No warnings or errors.

I sent it to the machine and ran the file through the graphics. The machine gave an error.