no cutter comp or tabs in X3

[TECHSERV]

Hi All,

 

I've recently upgraded to X3 and I'm having some issues. First, I cannot get my lead in/out to work on the finish pass of a pocket toolpath. No matter what percentage of lead in/out I use, it just doesn't happen. Second, I cannot get tabs to work on a contour. If I put them in manually they do, but not from the contour toolpath interface. Any ideas? By the way, both of these things worked for me in X2 MR2 with the exact same settings. Ugh...

[TECHSERV]

Ok, I think I've figure out the tabs thing. I went into the 2nd page of the tabs interface and checked "tab all" and selected them to start at the midpoint . This seemed to remedy the issue. Still no cutter comp in the pocket though.

[Ocean Lacky™]

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I cannot get my lead in/out to work on the finish pass of a pocket toolpath. No matter what percentage of lead in/out I use, it just doesn't happen.

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You wouldn't happen to be trying to enter and exit on a Spline would you? I've noticed that Splines and Lead In/Lead out do not play well together on 2D contour paths.

[TECHSERV]

No. It is just an arc.

[TECHSERV]

Fixed it. In the lead in/out page , the sweep of the arc was set to 0.0. I changed it to 90.0, like the contour page, and SHAZAM!!! Thanks for your help.