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Tbaker25
in reply to: jeff.walters

Jeff, thanks for looking into it. Here is an update:

The October 19 release greatly improved the issue. One thing this release did was remove the "disc" which was on the tool with a wider shaft. (An error I'd previously reported, thanks for getting it fixed!!)

Now, for the first time, it is properly skipping areas which don't need to be machined! So it seems to me that that display bug was playing into the issue. While that bug hasn't traditionally affected the calulcation of the toolpath, it DID affect tool holder and shaft (fail on collision, pull back tool). It appears to also have affected rest material detection.

 

Down side- it still hits a lot of areas it doesn't need to. On this picture I have it set to ignore 0.05" of cusps. It skips the steep wall area like it should, but hits the less steep areas. The previous pass left 0.001". 

Just as a point of comparison, this picture is part way through a calculation, and has linking moves set already. It seems to add them per stepdown.

 

Screen Shot 2015-10-20 at 3.14.22 PM.png

 

 

So it is now working well enough for me to use it! Yay! Thank you. I do think rest machining is not perfected yet for this size bit.

Thanks,

Tom