But it also will not represent the changes you made...

You may want to start using the analyze function. GOOD DAY SIR!

ROR @ "Good Day!" Thoob, climb milling is better for cutters, IMO, zigzagging with a high performance endmill is a no-no. Use climb milling, go to the max you can on the depth of cut. Calculate for chip thinning and max out the back feedrate. If you REALLY want what you are after, here is how I would accomplish it. Program the path, save as geo, then xform all the "climb" milling moves a bit deeper (which would make the conventional cuts shallower). Then it's up to you to create blended splines (or manual if your feeling like a smartass) to re-connect the toolpath chain. Then contour the "adjusted" chain as a 2d contour with comp set to off. Then you will have to use "change at point" or toolpath editor to adjust the feedrate on the backfeed moves, which wouldn't be to bad since zigzag produces minimal backfeed moves. You will also run into ummmmmmmmmmmm, challenges if you are using the micro-lift function. BTW "guess I was using them blind", and quoting "designed", were obviously "smartass" responses and you know it. Huge PITA (unless its a short dynamic path).

When computers were slower, the rotation was slower.... I think it's connected to the clock speed of the processor or something... it was used at shows to spin the part slow and people were like "WOW".

Thanks Ernie!

Another cool thing about it... the part will eventually come to the center of the screen regardless of where it was on (or off) the screen when you hit the end key!

Oh, I thought it was some kind of inverted waterjet that was new or something, thought the blue light was some kind of inspection scanner.... lol You are aware the gopro allows you to choose different framerates/resolutions, which have an effect on the battery life, right?

Profile is perfect.... Can you elaborate on what you think is incorrect?

Toolnumber works here! Thanks gschlen! Nice find!

Mark, if you ever have an application for them in the future, TRY THEM! No peck, fantastic surface finish, excellent positioning/straightness. Get the Crazy pilot drills that they reccommend... they also make some for drilling on angled/curved surfaces. They blew my mind...

What the heck is that machine doing? Waterjet??? What's the blue light at the end?

Colin, just out of curiosity.... how often does someone stump you? LOL Thanks again for your help! You nailed it.

I tried both selections. Same results. Here is the file. Good luck LOL! I have other options that are working, but would still like to know WTF I did wrong here.

Ok the first pic is the raster path that is perfect. The second pic is the convert to 5x, whats with the errant move on the left? (The same move is at the beginning of the path, but it's hard to see the yellow lines inside all the blue lines.) I have been playing with the lead in/outs, relink or use original links... cant get rid of it... I had to check the box for "Drop tool down wherever needed" to get it to cut everything....if I didn't check that box the errant move wasn't there but it skipped (cut air above that area) what you see in green in the third pic.

That looks much better! cut pattern cutting method choose spiral if it wont go around in circles, play with the cut direction in the flowline data (under geometry branch that is visible in the ops manager)

Justin, it looks like you capped the hole instead of putting a radius on the end of the hole..

+1 to Mark

Keep X5 (like my 2 year old likes to keep her security blankey close by) Install X7. Forget you have X5 installed. Then mom can wash that filthy old blankey.... Happy Monday Bob!

Thanks Tyler, setting my drive as check now.... I saw that but it didn't make sense to me so I thought I was missing something...

I seem to remember running into this before, but I can't figure out how to fix it. I have a nice raster finish path that is smooth as silk, I want to give it some side tilt so I go into multiaxis, convert to 5x. Why will it not respect the drive surfaces from the original toolpath? It buries my cutter into the material.... Or should I just use Colin's go-to path? (cuts along curve). TIA.

Light DOC (maybe 10-20% the insert rad), high feed rate. Treat it like a cheezy high feed milling cutter. If the load spikes upon entering the cut, increase the toolpath radius. I haven't used the lathe dynamic yet, but I have used the dynamic mill toolpath to make geo for the lathe many times.

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Did you contanct QC?

Watching those Crazy drills was like magic!

Best of luck!