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"One Way" milling direction selected, "both ways" is the result

FrodoLoggins — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:38:50 GMT

Re: "One Way" milling direction selected, "both ways" is the result

DarthBane55 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:44:30 GMT

You posted this exact issue yesterday or the day before and someone gave you the answer, go check that out.

Re: "One Way" milling direction selected, "both ways" is the result

engineguy — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:53:14 GMT

Will you do me a favour and check out the two attached file, when selecting "one way" I get Conventional toolpath everywhere and selecting "Other way" I get Climb toolpath.

I ask because it is getting late and my eyes are tired so it would be great if you could either confirm/deny my findings.

The two files are attached for your perusal 🙂

@FrodoLoggins

It does work properly as far as I can tell, you have done a good job of doing the Faces and Drive curves but it looks like your selection process that is a little out, try selecting the top Drive Curve first and then the lower on both the slots, that may be your problem, selecting each set of Drive Curves the same way seems to help 🙂 🙂 🙂

Oh, BTW, selecting "Both Ways" does make the toolpath change from Climb to Conventional and back again on each pass !!!

P.S. I know everyone has to learn but do please try to understand the Strategy before saying it doesn`t work, I think you have been using Fusion for a while now, spend a bit more time working things out.

Mostly the Folks on here that are tryng to help you are not from Autodesk and don`t get paid, (Not asking for any!!) so sorting stuff for you that I presume you are doing to make money is getting a little thin !! 🙂

Re: "One Way" milling direction selected, "both ways" is the result

DarthBane55 — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:33:43 GMT

@engineguy

Ok, I checked your file for climb mill, and yes the paths in the 2nd setup where you have many features in 1 toolpath are all climbing. This is what you wanted me to verify right?

That said, I personally would not send that to the floor. The blend path produces many entry points (waste of time travelling from 1 end to the other), and the stepdowns are not even. If you look at the path in the 1st setup, there is a gap between the top 2 passes and the bottom 2. And the corners are green, meaning it's somewhat of a linking move, although it seems to follow the part. I just don't like the result. I uploaded the file again (here below) using flow. Super clean and even, I would use that (I only did the 1st setup). But I know this was not the question from Frodo, just sayin', in general when possible, flow tends to make a very clean path, unless it doesn't... when it decides to not do smooth, it becomes a real pain... in this case, it worked fine!

Re: "One Way" milling direction selected, "both ways" is the result

engineguy — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 13:14:34 GMT

@DarthBane55

Cheers, yes, that is all I wanted to verify that the toolpath did work as expected 🙂

As for the rest, I absolutely agree that it isn`t the correct toolpath for the operation, in fact when I looked at the model the faces being done with the Blend are in fact just a 45 degree Chamfer so if I was doing the job it would be a simple single pass with the right size Chamfer tool for me 🙂

It would appear (Just a guess) from other postings that the OP is trying to do as many operations as possible using a single tool in order to minimize tool changes due to not having an ATC, so, each to their own as they say, your flow would help out for sure 🙂 🙂

Thanks again for your input, much appreciated 🙂