MCX6 ingnoring containment

[Cuda84]

Has anyone ever seen this? Doing HS core roughing with boundry and solids, tool is cutting completley outside boundry.

[Brando]

yep i had this on the job i just programmed. (solid and a square boundary) i didnt even bother to try to mess with it i just used another path type

[peon]

Has anyone ever seen this? Doing HS core roughing with boundry and solids, tool is cutting completley outside boundry.

 

On Core Roughing, the boundary defines stock and is suppose to lead in from the outside of the containment boundary.

[Rob Peirolo CNC Software]

Cuda84,

In the HST Core toolpaths, the boundaries are not containment boundaries (even though the dialog says "Containment"), they are cut boundaries.

Anything outside the boundary is considered a safe area, while anything inside the boundary will get cut.

In the HST Area toolpaths the opposite is true.

In the HST Area toolpath the boundary is a containment boundary.

You can control the boundary areas in the "Tool containment" group box in the Cut paramaters.

[Cuda84]

High speed core roughing, and its not just a lead in its roughing to the depth that I set as my lower limit outside the boundry. I ended up makink a surface to contain the toolpath so I could get the job running. I have never seen anything like this before and i have been running MC since 2004.

[Cuda84]

Rob thanks for the info.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

You all squared away now Dave?

Holler if you need anything.

 

Todd

[razor]

I am having a very similar problem. Using Raster rest mill, complex surfaces as my drives, a STL as my stock, and 1 containment boudry set to inside. I have been using MC for many years and never had an issue with containment. It usually works great. But now, something has changed. Is this a bug. Seems pretty simple, when I say stay inside a boundry, MC should never cross that line. But it does. I just started using X6 MU1