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kieran.gill
in reply to: HughesTooling

Thanks @HughesTooling .

This is an interesting one. There may be different results for other toolpaths, but when looking at FLAT specifically (for the benefit of others reading this post, the way you get FLAT to do Inside-Out is to not omit a machining boundary and use Touch surfaces) it would appear that Inside-Out appears to also appears to do a fair few air cutting moves (See image).

I'm probably of the opinion that I would go for the Outside-In as you have originally programmed.  My advice is regardless of whether your using Inside-out or Inside-out (with these sorts of whole part strategies) is that the toolpath will in most cases be 95% correct, which is why we allow users to apply toolpath modifications such as toolpath trimming and section deletes on toolpaths like FLAT so that you can get it as close to perfect as possible. Worth noting you will need the Machining Extension to take advantage of toolpath modifications.

Appreciate the feedback, unless I've missed something, and keeping us at Autodesk honest about our toolpath quality especially where they may not be working for you as intended.

Images below show Inside-Out with and without Optimized Open Pocket machining

Inside_Out_FLAT.PNGInside_Out_FLAT2.PNG



Kieran Gill
Technical Consultant