X5 5-AX Curve Mouse Ears

[Travis_Buchanan]

In the past I have been able to stop this from happening using a variation of look ahead and curve following options. Anyone got a clue how to get rid of this? I fillet the corners but then got mouse ears on both sides.

[Trevor Bailey]

dont use curve. use swarf with upper and lower rails and have then synced by entities - same number of entities in both rails.

[Travis_Buchanan]

Hey Trevor, It's been a while since Iv'e talked with you. I hope you and your family are well. I have always struggled with swarf, tool wants to lead or lag or wiggle around too much. The most success I've had is to sync chains by branch. I'll give it a shot and thanks for the reply.

[Trevor Bailey]

send me your file with the version you are working on.

 

family is good, winter sucks. ready for 100 degree heat again. baseball is in full swing as usual, along with wrestling now. couple of more months and all my kids will be starting some sort of MMA. i wanted them to have a wrestling back ground first and foremost(like me). love fighting.

 

how have you guys been? get off-roading much anymore? i have not been doing any at all for some time now. too much other "life" always gets in the way.

[Travis_Buchanan]

Thanks Trevor, I got it using Swarf and sync by branch. Can't send out the file, it's Military Aerospace stuff. I haven't done anything but work for the past year and a half. I even missed deer season this year. But somebody has to feed the wife and kids. Glad to hear you all are doing well.

[gcode]

it's Military Aerospace stuff

 

Looks like some Ti armour plate

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

Travis, Check under your control by lines and set "relative to direction". Was it the tool tilting or path fish tailing?

[Travis_Buchanan]

path is fishtailing or bowtied I tried relative to dir, finaly just used the old swarf with sync by branch. Looking forward to MU1 to see if some of my issues get solved.

[Anbu Lingappan - Moldplus SA]

How are you creating your geometry for the Curve 5ax tool path? Adding additional control vectors to the curve could help. Note that Moldplus software now offers some interesting tools to easily create your curves and vectors for Curve 5ax toolpaths. Recreating the geometry and redoing the path with the controls we offer might help you resolve the issue.