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shazam/TPP

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  1. I was hoping to avoid scraping the inserts, I believe there $5.00 each also don't have time to order new ones, its gotta ship on Thursday, I have to squirt some WD-40 on them, modify a M12 SHCS and screw them through to the other side!!! wish me luck thanks for your help.

     

    how did it work? inquiring minds want to know.

  2. also try using the high speed raster. the beauty of the high speed surface toolpaths is once you have selected your surfaces you can switch to a different path style without having to reselect your surfaces. ie high speed scallop then switch to high speed raster. the high speed raster produced a much smaller file (65% less) than the high speed scallop using the same tool and filter settings and scallop height (.0006)

     

    edit: plus a shorter cycle time

  3. you said previously on the filter page that you only click the xy for arcs, why not also click xz and yz? 3d contour surface should help.

    i have my filter settings set to:

    total tolerance=.0005-.001

    cut tolerance = 25%

    line/arc tol = 75%

    activate xy, xz, yz also depends if i want acrs generated on those planes

    rarely use the smoothing setting

     

    ps what size ball mill do you use for finishing in your example?

  4. has anyone used it? my opinion is the X6 version is better. X7 treats it like a closed "contour" cleaning the corners out at the end. i have a slot i'm roughing out and am using a single line .030 stepover, .050 min toolpath rad. extended entry and exit are off, and the tool starts quite a distance away from the part and ends by cleaning the corners out when i don't need that. X6 works great with the same geometry, basically milling circles at a .030 stepover and none of the corner cleanout, and start and end are closer to the part. when i post the codes with the same arc filter X7 is 3x as long! any thoughts? maybe an option for a "closed/open" slot?

     

    edit: i realize this is part of the what's new features but.....

  5. i think i know what may have happened, i broke the cardinal rule and used migration on one folder yesterday didn't restart it and had no problem yesterday, only until this morning after starting up my computer. :realmad: that needs to be removed as an option :rtfm: . oh well

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