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in reply to: swpm4FJMQ

Without seeing the file with that parallel toolpath it's hard to guess but if your tolerance value is too large you will see faceting like that.

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0.01 is standard and should provide good results, you can try going to 0.005mm but another trick i like to try out is to right click on the toolpath and select compare and edit.

then find the value for "Surface triangulation tolerance"

Change that form "tolerance*0.5" to "tolerance*0.05"

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might help

 

 

Also make sure you have smoothing turned on in the post properties, this will activate CYCLE 32 in the controller which will make it run better than with it off.

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I wouldn't use the 0.1 value though on the standard Heidenhain post, I have modified mine to output different values depending on the operation tolerance and whether its roughing or not.

 

Heidenhain recommend 1.3*tolerance for the optimum values for CYCLE 32 (that's the tolerance value in the operation)