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it seems this toolpath takes a long time to calculate,and if you make a mistake in your parameter,it will take ages to regen.furthermore with the restriction of toolpath angle relative to the set angle and not to the geometry of workpiece,this toolpath is rather useless.any suggestions anybody?
this toolpath editor is like a box of chocolates,you never know what you are gonna get out of it!i will try to post the file in the FTP site once i have my file ready
actually it was none of those things!i know how to save or what has been answered.i think it could be something to do with the solids i have created,athough i had saved the file already before getting the next file,there was this error message about the solids created and then all of a sudden the file to be open got overwritten!
thanks for all the replies,but the question is i didn't save it over the other file,i even save the file with the solid first before i open the other file!but it seems there is some connections when you have a file done with solids,and later on when want to open another file,it seems to overwrite that file!it has happened to me many times!
i was doing some solids on a file,after saving,i tried to open another file,there was an error message warning,something liked solids need something,save yes or no,when i say no,my file that was opened became overwritten with that stupid file which i was doing solids on!and my that file i was opening became overwritten!i now have two similar files but different names,but both had that stupid file which i was doing solids on!now i have lost my other file!
you could convert the curve use in tool boundary into a spline,and then regen the toolpaths ,it should solve the problem of tool gauge or you could open up the total tolerance setting wider.
use retract values on absolute,feed plane with incremental with rapid retract checked,this way,you will be safe at the same time cut down on air time cutting!
yes i agree with you millman crazy,i always use surface rough pocket,there is less rapid up and down on the parts which make me confident about the toolpath!
but it seems that surface rough parallel toolpath takes quite a long machining time compared to surface rough pocket?i backplotted the times for surface rough parallel and it shows a ridiculously long machining time!therefore i dared not use this toolpath lest i would be scolded by the boss!
what you can do is to convert the chains to splines,and it will be okay!the splines won,t gave you any problems when chained as tool containment boundary(outside)
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