Multisurface 5-axis toolpath doesn't like trimmed revolved surfaces

[sinebar58]

I have been playing around with the multiaxis features in Mastercam X but I ran into a problem with trimmed revolved surfaces. The tool just ignores them and cuts right through. When I replace the revolve surfaces with nurbs surfaces everything works fine. The 3D part was converted from an iges file and it comes in as trimmed revolved surfaces. So does the multi axis feature require only nurbs? Do solids work better?

 

Correction: It doesn't like trimmed surfaces of any kind.

[gcode]

make sure your surface normals are correct

[sinebar58]

make sure your surface normals are correct

 

 

Can I check them in MC?

[Tyler Robertson]

yep - goto Edit > Set normal or Edit > Change normal

 

highlight the part.

 

if you want to I can take a look at the file

[sinebar58]

Thanks that did it worked great!