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How big is your material boundary? If you don't put one in I believe it makes a square out of everything you picked.
Draw containment boundary The area you wanted to cut on a different level so you can turn it off later. Select that as boundary it will call it a material boundary It shouldn't go below that more than half the tool
I made a clear offset maco for after a job clearing tool offsets. It puts 40 inches for z in the event a tool hasn't been touched off.. I would be interested in yours once you get it figured out.
The renishaw probe settings program turns the look ahead off also I believe
Usually when we probe z for every part the tracks relatively well. Have a probe the part right before you cut the feature. You can't probe it and then a half hour later after running blast coolant expected to be thermally stable when you cut that feature.
Are you using a lot of through spindle coolant? That will heat the enclosure 10 to 20° above room temperature at prolonged periods of time.
When I did it they called out a thickness It was like an acme thread.
I just experimented with the contour chain rotating it until I got what I wanted. You can do the same thing for a regular thread
It works good for divide.
I was doing some plunge milling and I used it to trim the inside of the arcs I drew so I could use it as a air region. I just wave the mouse around and I was done. But if you go too fast sometimes it reinserts the trim
how big is your current tip bin? What about a small hopper?
We use macx bins https://www.decadeproducts.com/products?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=products_ad&gclid=CjwKCAjwjqT5BRAPEiwAJlBuBdp6EYhEvEfvMhFXj3Y7EESlIuL41GEJ8cyziGQptkb_kirUSCxZJhoCyQMQAvD_BwE.
They are about 4 ft x 4 ft x 3 ft
Newer controllers have more advanced lookahead that can be adjusted for tolerance also and make a sizable difference in time.
The problem is on the old machines if you go too fast you can round the corner off
Camplete has the 3+1 block which you can remove the Z0 (works on fanuc). It only uses it at A-90 only when the c axis changes though.
Have you tried making separate ops and then using multiaxis link?
It's a little more programming but if you have a million pieces I guess it's worth it.
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