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Thanks for the assistance, @HughesTooling.
A couple questions for you. When you enabled 'stock contours', you didn't make any contour selection in either operation, so according to the tool tip, the stock defined in the setup is used, as shown by the yellow contour following the setup stock. My question is, what's the point? Shouldn't the setup stock be the "remaining stock" for the first operation regardless of settings? The tool tip also says that this is to define the area of the stock surface that needs to be faced. Perhaps the 'stock contours' option needs a better tool tip, because I don't see how it would apply here. I'm not performing any facing operations. Does Fusion consider a 3D Adaptive clearing toolpath a facing operation? Also, 'stock contours' are enabled in both operations, yet there are still collisions in the first. How many collisions were eliminated by enabling 'stock contours'?
Addressing the smoothing option, I do see that it helps, but this seems more like a workaround than proper behavior. If the lead moves are generated before smoothing takes place and result in collisions which ruin stock and possibly break tooling, isn't this unwanted behavior a bug in Fusion which needs to be fixed? I'd really like to be able to use the smoothing option, because smoothing shaves approximately 20 minutes off of my original machine time all by itself.
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