Reversing a toolpath (reverse passes)

[Tyler Robertson]

Hey everyone,

 

An exciting Application for Mastercam/Robotmaster is Laser Cladding or Additive Welding processing. See short video (http://www.lasercladding.com/images/video.html)

 

Problem is you have to add material, not cut it away!

 

So I've been doing tricks like reversing a solid part, toolpathing it then flipping the tool normals, doing post changes, etc. all to try and make this work

 

but in the Advanced Multiaxis path there's an easily forgotten button that will reverse the path, and works with depth cuts

 

Goto the Roughing Tab

Turn on Depth Cuts

Click Sorting Options

Reverse order of ... (passes or whole passes)

 

 

Big thanks to Chris Bell

 

I probably open Adv. Multiaxis 100-500+ times a day, and I missed that every single time

[Tyler Robertson]

reverse reversing inverting toolpath inverting passes cladding additive welding

 

 

Just in case someone's ever searching for this

[Mike S @ S4A]

Thanks Tyler...I've got four guys in for foundation training right now that do plasma spray (but you already know that....)

[mayday]

somthing like this ? took 2 seconds

 

 

Reverse order of ... (passes or whole passes)

Click Sorting Options

Turn on Depth Cuts

Goto the Roughing Tab

 

but in the Advanced Multiaxis path there's an easily forgotten button that will reverse the path, and works with depth cuts

 

So I've been doing tricks like reversing a solid part, toolpathing it then flipping the tool normals, doing post changes, etc. all to try and make this work

 

Problem is you have to add material, not cut it away!

 

An exciting Application for Mastercam/Robotmaster is Laser Cladding or Additive Welding processing. See short video (http://www.lasercladding.com/images/video.html)

 

Hey everyone,

[Chri]

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