My system was built in 2014. We don't do large or complex models typically, but I still spec'd a Quadro K4000, because a number of people here said a Quadro was the best way to go. Boss told me I had to cut some of the cost out, so I dropped back to a K2000. I will add this: MEMORY!! When I was told to cut the cost of this system 6 years ago...one of the areas I trimmed was in RAM. HUGE mistake! Dropping from the Quadro 4000 to the 2000 worked out OK for our situation, but cutting the memory has bitten us badly!

The system I have is 5 years old, an i7 w/12 GB RAM. I had spec'd a much more robust system, but was told to trim it back, so I did. Keep in mind, we don't do the complex parts that some of you guys do. We're a vacuum forming shop, so my work is a lot of fairly simple wireframe trim/drill, but some surface models cutting molds in REN Shape. Some of the mold files get a little interesting. This year, we've had a lot of new parts from our largest customer. The files they sent were huge for us, and took (on average) 45 minutes to open. Even after I deleted elements I didn't need to build our parts, and saved the smaller files, they still took 15 - 20 minutes to open. Some of the toolpaths took a lot of time to process. Wish I had kept track of how much time I spent waiting for files to load, and toolpaths to process. Wouldn't be surprised if I lost a week, just waiting.

Here's an up close look at the line segments. One is selected so you can see the end of it. Try this: draw a .1 line vertical (90 degree). Then draw a second line at 0 degrees from the center of the .1 line, length 5.7294. Now, try rotating the .1 line, 1 degree, using the end of the 5.7294 line as the center of rotation.

On mine, the individual line segments are connected, and will chain. How did you draw it?

Is this what you wanted? Can't see it in the screen shot, but each line segment is .1"

One significant difference you'll see in morph is the collision control, If you've not dealt with that before, it may take you a bit to understand all you can do with it.

If you've gotten the hang of 5 ax curve, you'll see some familiar data fields and functions. Sometimes I have to play around with tool axis control to get the results I want. Morph will require some wireframe, or surface curves or solid edges to pick "from" and "to" geometry, along with the surface or solid face you want to cut. I don't do a lot of surface machining, most of my work is trim/drill, but when we cut a mold, I get into the multi axis surface paths on some of them.

My go-to paths for the type of cavity work you're talking about are morph and flow. Both give a number of options for controlling the tool.

This works on my Onsrud 5 axis router as well, except that I had to change the Tilt Angle to 7.

It looks like the tool is trying to go through the block to the other side. I would break that up into 4 ops, 1 per face.

My desk is sit only, but I did get the boss to purchase a good chair which helps a lot. Since I still work in the plant some, I'm usually not sitting all day. When occasional programming demands keep me desk bound all day, I really have to remind myself to get up and move around periodically.

I use reference points primarily for Z control on retract and approach moves. If I need to control A and C axes also, I create a small circle, rotate it to the desired angle, create a plane using the rotated circle, then create a point toolpath using that new plane.

Most of my work is trimming vacuum formed parts, so my go-to path is 5 ax curve. I use a lot of morph when machining a mold, especially with some of the shapes of our parts.

Trim the larger surface to the outer curve (I used "split model" to keep all surfaces). Then, make sure the only surfaces selected are between the two curves.

I saw it during the 2017 public beta. Kept happening on a specific tool, so I went into the tool manager and rebuilt the tool. Haven't seen it since.