Surface High Speed clearance plane

[Jaz]

I have a 5-axis part trying to drive some high speed rough paths on. When my tool plane is position at some angle other than WCS the tool path seems to ignore whatever I have entered for a clearance plane and just retracts to whatever it feels like. No changes I have made to the clearance settings (incremental, absolute, value) affects the height of these retracts. I have safety zone turned off. I am running MU2, the same toolpaths apparently generated correctly in MU1.

 

The retracts are beyond travel limits so this kind of a killer for me.

 

Anybody else see anything like this or know what I'm doing wrong?

[Guyinthedesert]

The clearance plane will be relative to Top/Top/Top view, no matter where you have your WCS set. I draw a vector line in the direction I want my plane, and put a point on it where I want my clearance height. Then I select user defined for the plane and select my vector line.

[Jaz]

It's just a 3axis toolpath tilted over in A & C. It makes Z rapids at 12.xx no matter what I do with the clearance height settings. If it were referencing to T/T/T I would expect it to be like Z90. Other similar toolpaths tilted over just in A seem to be working fine.