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I am having trouble with the flowline toolpath. I am machining an undercut of -5 degrees. My first attempts would try and machine both sides of this surface. I added all surfaces of the part into collision control under check surfaces. Now everything is correct except the exit. The toolpath tries to exit into the part.
I have a 1/8 lollipop cutter already defined from a previous job, Flow parameters selects only the surfaces with the undercut, tool axis control is set to Lines because this is being worked on a 3 axis machine with output format 4axis rotary axis - X axis, lead angle side angle both set at 0, collision control compensation surfaces I have only the selected surface with an undercut, gouge check is off, etc.
My linking parameters seem to be based off of the x axis. Everything seems to work except the path wants to exit into the part (the opposite side that it starts on.)
Anyone know how to force the flowline path to start and exit near the same area?
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