Lathe Finish Toolpath on Face

[M_CODE1]

Is this a bug in Lathe or am I doing something wrong? Want to cut a small chamfer on OD and turn the face. The toolpath never does what I chain it to do. My current work around is to just use the rough toolpath and making the depth of cut a big number. This got me trouble by not changing the stock left to 0.

 

Any suggestions

[g-codeguy]

I think it might be you. Are you changing finish direction from OD to FACE? Compensation direction from RIGHT to LEFT? That should take care of it.

[crazy^millman]

Just was was suggested here, make sure your direction is right. I do this all the time in Mastercam with no problems. Got a sample file you can share.

 

HTH

[M_CODE1]

Hey I final got a finish face toolpath to work right. Needed to change to LEFT

 

Seems like it could be a small bug still?

 

In lathe Rough when it on OD it goes to Right but then when you put it on Face it goes to left automatically, but the Finish pass does not do this automatically.

 

Well at least I know how to make it work right now

[Mike S @ S4A]

no bug..just gotta pay attention to which direction you want to go...

could also be if you were just picking one entity and trying to use the chamfer feature....

gotta have two things to fillet or chmfer between 'em

[M_CODE1]

why does one toolpath change it automatically and the other does't?