Surface Quality

[LucasGC]

Hi all.

I'm sure this is something I've struggled with before and I'm not sure what's different.

I have a simple roughing toolpath and it bounces around going through small geometry.

I'm thinking this is mostly because of the tangency factor on thermwood machines, but i'm hoping not.

Is this a common occurance? is my part geometry just wack? I've tried scallop, hybrid, and pencil finishing toolpaths, all come out with pock marks all over the piece. Even during rough pocket cut it will bounce around.

 

pock.nc

pock.mcam

[Guest]

Can't really say but on the mills ide, I don't experiece the issues you seem to continually have with your machine. I have some some pretty nice 3D work over the years from molds to parts...

That said, I would fathom the machine is the issue.

[LucasGC]

Actually I think this might be the same problem I had when I originally switched from metric to standard.

I programmed a part in metric the same way i did a part in standard and the standard came out much smoother.

I think I will just try and remake this and see if it fixes it.

[LucasGC]

Nah, it's got to be the tangency.

Anyone want to run this on a non thermwood and see if it runs smooth?