topic Re: HSM Swarf Trouble in HSM Support Forum

HSM Swarf Trouble

karl_ehlers — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 02:24:57 GMT

Hello,

I was trying to produce a pyramid with the Swarf operation in HSMWorks 2018, within Solidworks 2016. No matter what I tried, it seemed to refuse to cut with the side of the tool, and produced extremely odd paths where it cut with the bottom of the tool. I watched a video on doing it in Fusion 360 and selecting the same faces I had picked in HSM, generated the correct toolpath in no time at all. Am I just running into a bug with HSM? Or do I just have it setup wrong in HSM? First time trying Swarf.

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

Steinwerks — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 02:29:02 GMT

Can you attach your SLDPRT file?

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

karl_ehlers — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 03:53:11 GMT

The construction lines represent the rotary axes.

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

Laurens-3DTechDraw — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:50:13 GMT

You shouldn't set any sideways tilt.

But in the latest releases of HSMWorks the surface mode in Swarf has gone wrong.

I've tried to report this multiple times but I get no response on it.

Using contour selection does work.

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

Steinwerks — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:53:28 GMT

@Laurens-3DTechDraw can you post an example where your contour selection works? I get this:

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

Laurens-3DTechDraw — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:58:07 GMT

Of course.

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Steinwerks — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:00:45 GMT

Well it appears that selecting by Tangent Propogation is broken as well. If I manually select every segment it works.

Not good.

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

jeff.pek — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:04:58 GMT

Hi Laurens -

Do you happen to have any ticket references?

Thanks,

Jeff

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

Laurens-3DTechDraw — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:23:46 GMT

@jeff.pek

No send it in through feedback and email.

No response.

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jeff.pek — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:33:48 GMT

Thanks. Is this HSMWorks only? Looks like we may have issues in Fusion (and Inventor?) too?

Jeff

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

karl_ehlers — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:11:38 GMT

Awesome! Setting sideways tilt to zero fixed the toolpath and made it exactly like what I got in Fusion. However I never got it to work with contour selection, how would I learn more about how to use these five axis functions? Your file version is too new for me to view.

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

Laurens-3DTechDraw — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:32:31 GMT

@jeff.pek I'm not too sure about the other two. Will test tomorrow. This might be caused by the same change that caused the Flow troubles since these operations use the same kind of surface interpretation.

Re: HSM Swarf Trouble

fonsecr — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:02:57 GMT

Hmm this doesn't look good. I have opened ticket CAM-9068 for this issue and asked team to look at it.