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fonsecr
in reply to: kb9ydn

Hi all,

 

At the moment the machining time relies of some hard coded values to estimate rapid feed and tool change time. Depending on what you simulate the number of tool changes will vary and the tool change time may or may not take effect. Furthermore, I don't consider the acceleration and block processing speed of the CNC so that would also give some difference from the actual machining time. The particular cutting strategy used will have quite a different impact on this also.

 

We will add settings in the user interface in the future so we can control these numbers and get closer to your machining time.

 

The default Setup Sheet has its own values but you could customize it to use numbers that are closer to your CNC. See the properties 'rapidFeed' and 'toolChangeTime' if you generate the setup sheet via the post processor command.

 

It will take some time before we will expose these settings directly in the user interface as this ties into other features that we need and have planned.

 


René Fonseca
Software Architect