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Anonymous
in reply to: HughesTooling

Clearly there are things I simply don't understand about 3DAdaptive....

 

I need to be able to use 3DAdaptive to machine only specific surfaces in the model.  I've been able to make it work once or twice, but it seems very inconsistent as to whether it will work or not, and I just end up trying all kinds of different things until it decides to work.  In most cases, the generation takes for.......ever......, or the progress counter counts up very slowly for a long time, then simply hangs.

 

Here's what I've tried most recently, which does not work:

 

For Bounding Box, I use silhouette, Tool Center on Boundary.  (I've also tried using a sketch as the bounding box, with the same lack of result)

Stock Contours un-checked

Rest Machining From Setup Stock, Ignore Cusps

Tool Orientation un-checked

Model is checked, Model Surfaces selected, and the face I want machined is highlighted.

Heights are set correctly - Top = Top of Stock, Bottom = Bottom of Model

 

Generation runs for about 5 minutes, then stalls at about 25% done.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Regards,

Ray L.