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Mirroring the path (transform) resulted in conventional cutting. That is why I mirrored the geo instead.
Thanks all for the replies.
I will send to QC at the end of the day if ya'll can't help me get it.
Morning all,
See the attached file, the first swarf is looking great, I told it to make a .003" rad in the corners and it is perfect, nice smooth motion.
So I mirrored my surfaces, copied the toolpath, then re-selected the new geo. The new path (#2) gets all funky in the corners, not the same as the original.
What am I missing.
TIA!
John, should I also send mine?
I thought the issue was just me.... I am actually having a spaceclaim guy look into the part for me...
We are simply trying to make a usable solid out of a 1.7 MB STL that came from Mcam verify....
Split the op into sections (multiple operations) with containment boundaries.... then use convert to 5 on each of those....
(You can save the source op as geo, then use that geo to help you create perfect containments....)
I didn't even post mine.... it skips the lead in on the finish passes....
For some reason (no idea why), I always ramp with 1 op, then finish with another operation......
The convert to 5 path doesn't see the rapids between sections of the source op the way you want it to....
To get what you are after, the source op cannot have "gaps" in it. 1 entry, then cut, 1 exit.
Convert to 5 sees the rapids between gaps the same as the cutting motion....
I could be wrong.....
Open the tool manager
double click on the tool
go to the parameters tab of the tool def
at the bottom, hit the button that says "tool clearance".
See if you can get anything good adjusting the stuff in there.
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