"!When handling hardware threads marked for high performance, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology increases the clock speed up to the Max Turbo Frequency. For example, the Intel® Core™ i9-9900K processor has a base frequency of 3.60 GHz, and a Max Turbo frequency of 5.00 GHz" Source : intel.com Gracjan

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you are trying to go for the impossible . the two lines must be in the same plane. its spline blend after that . Gracjan

how did you get from 2.4 to 5.3 ? !!!!!!!! i went from 4 to 4.4 and after that the pc became incoherent. Water cooled. Gracjan My favorite shoutout 3.33 ----> 3.32 Gracjan

cutting a solid into two results in a disjoint body. Also no matter how small a part is left , as long as its larger than the tolerance of the solid modeler it's still logically a part... A file would go a long way... Gracjan

yes ,you could make it using lines as 5-ax axis direction. Gracjan

A surface has a positive and a negative side .They can differentiated by turning on the "Backside" toggle switch in the View menu. Just to make it absolutely clear, all 5-ax functions (also described as Module Works or "MW" toolpaths ) create toolpaths on the positive side of the surface. This absolute rule becomes less absolute when defining the ceiling and other non - critical surfaces in Pocketing a MW 5-ax roughing t-path. I have witnessed a Pocketing toolpath suddenly producing an output when the Ceiling surface has it's negative face facing towards the volume being machined. Gracjan

View , Backside Gracjan

you were trying to make a roughing op here. I would say Pocketing ( the 5-ax roughing op) would be more appropriate. That is even trickier to get working, but it's better for this case. Gracjan

there is a "drag files here to attach..... etc at the bottom of the Reply page- Gracjan

I have also used the pencil strategy by MW, as it can be made true 5-axis (provided you use a ball endmill). 3-axis pencil converted to 5-axis will fail as the new projection will tend to miss the spots. Been there, done it. Gracjan

you should definitely experiment more with pencil, but as for limiting the toolpaths to the ones you want , use wireframe boundary to limit it's scope. Also we have the old school and HSM pencil toolpaths which usually differ a little . You should try both so in the future you'll know which is more appropriate for the case at hand. Actually when it comes to pencil the difference is minute. There is more disparity in e.g. Waterline and constant Z. Gracjan

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Dynamic is just a means to carry out the two rotations.... You could ascertain the two angles graphically, but measuring the angles forces you to change Cplane so a rotation or a Dynamic move involes the same amount of work. Gracjan

Good to know. As You know I have been lucky to work mainly only with HH. Gracjan

I could not get the abs function to work and had to use the old trick of sqrt (a *a ) .... Gracjan

You should disable this line in your post. If you don't know, this line will pass info to the control about the length and radius of the tool. Unless you have some old machine with an old HH , L and R of the tool are handled by the control central tool library. So outputting these values might be prohibited by the control. Nowdays TOOL DEF is only used for tool staging. But the format is TOOL DEF 5 and no other info is output. Gracjan

I will put this in another way . You need two rotations of the part on your screen to align it with the real world part. 1. I will choose three points X0 Y-100, X0 Y100 and X100 Y50. 2. Measure the Z at X0 Y-100. by shifting the WCS datum point , you can align your model Z to the real world . So now we have one point in Mcam aligned. 3. Measure the Z in the real world at point X0 Y100 and draw the point in mcam(lets say its X0Y100Z0.2) . Project that point onto your model (let's say its X0Y100 Z 0.1 ) . Now join your first point X0Y-100 Z0 with two lines to points X0Y100Z0.2 and X0Y100Z0.1 . By looking from the RIGHT SIDE and measuring the angle between the two lines you will know the precise angle you have to rotate the part DYNAMICALLY to align point 2. 5.Now project point 3 (X100 Y50 and lets say Z0.3) onto the surface of the part. Now by looking from the FRONT and drawing the triangle as described in the previous step you will have figured out the second rotation. Gracjan

It's the Source :Geometry that is the deal breaker here.... Gracjan

Tried machining on water ? Gracjan

Toolpath Tranform, Type : Mirror , Method :Coordinate , Source: Geometry Gracjan

Create blended spline Gracjan

measure the Z part in 3 far off places on the part . I would measure the first two to form a vertical line to join them . Now rotate the part so that the three Zees match up, et voila the part is aligned with the world. Just to be 110% sure , i'd measure two random points in Mcam and see if they measure up in the real world. Gracjan PS . Now if you had a 5-ax Heidenhain you would need to maesure 4 co-planar points and the control would turn on the machine plane function on and make the plane parallel to the XY-plane

The control and machine files are not readable by a previous version , but they are also like husks for the file that usually gets developed over time - the postprocessor file. So you can keep the 2020 .control and .MMD or LMD of 2020 but freely transfer the post back and forward between 2021 and 2020. I usually bump up the post version number by two or three ( as to what is at the moment the newest version) , so I just copy it into a new Mcam when it comes along. Gracjan