Better Rapid Moves

[Manofwar]

I've been programming a lot lately in full 5x and been running into a problem. This is on a Mazak Integrex I300 but I've seen it on my other posts for 5x. So the issue is the rapid moves between cuts. The machine shudder steps in the rapid and immediately smooths back out for the cut. When I turn on endpoint display I can see that it is creating 5x rapid moves, however the moves aren't really close together, they're spread out between points. This issue becomes quite a bit worse with the 3D paths with tilt to avoid turned on. Is there a way to avoid this or a setting I'm missing?

[Colin Gilchrist]

32 minutes ago, Manofwar said:

I've been programming a lot lately in full 5x and been running into a problem. This is on a Mazak Integrex I300 but I've seen it on my other posts for 5x. So the issue is the rapid moves between cuts. The machine shudder steps in the rapid and immediately smooths back out for the cut. When I turn on endpoint display I can see that it is creating 5x rapid moves, however the moves aren't really close together, they're spread out between points. This issue becomes quite a bit worse with the 3D paths with tilt to avoid turned on. Is there a way to avoid this or a setting I'm missing?

You could turn on the option to "Convert Rapid to Feed", and set the Feed value to the Machine Max Feedrate (Control Definition), which is my preference. The other option is only available in the Moduleworks 5X paths, but there is a setting (somewhere) to control the density of the Rapid move vector output. 

[Leon82]

If you use the safteyzone cylinder it will let you use feed rates for the moves.

 

[Leon82]

There is a default setting of 3 degrees I think which is the increment for these moves. You can change it bigger, but also the tool will come closer to the work during that move