5ax multi surf retract / feed

[Chris Rizzo]

Multi surf on a 4ax. Stock is purple, part is orange. Taking depth cuts and multi pass.

 

Why is that retract move moving diagonal through stock? (arrowed move tool is feed retracting for the next slice of depth cuts.)

 

 

 

[Zoober]

Chris, that looks like it may be a retract between passes. Can you do a retract to clearance instead of feed distance?

Just a guess, because I can't really tel what it is cutting...

[Chris Rizzo]

Well that did it! I thought I tried every permutation of options last night, but I guess not.

 

I also was thinking that would be a "slice", because it was like a meat slicer, an xy section. While a"pass" was a depth cut. Guess it got it reversed.

 

thx much.

[Chris Rizzo]

Well that did it! I thought I tried every permutation of options last night, but I guess not.

 

I also was thinking that would be a "slice", because it was like a meat slicer, an xy section. While a"pass" was a depth cut. Guess it got it reversed.

 

thx much.

 

edit. still having issues with lead-offs going the wrong direction. Trying the "flip" toggle but doesn't seem to do it.

[Steve Hattori]

Chris, I had a lot of trouble with moves between passes in that routine also...reprogrammed in Adv 5x and that solved it. My problem was multi-ax didn't make progressive X-Z-C moves between passes on a cylinder, so if it finished a ruf pass 180 deg from the start point, it would just rapid thru the part to get back to the start...

In Adv5x, you can control the between-passes moves much better, and it always produces output that positions the Z away from the cyl while it rotates back to the start, so it goes to postion, say, 1.0" above the wall and then stays there all the way around to the start again..

 

Hope that helps..

[Zoober]

I just got done with a nasty impeller, and that kept biting me, so I figured you were the next "bitee".