I would like to see a feature implemented in the CAM simulation environment. The simulation removes material from user defined stock around a model body. Currently remaining material is shown as colored stock, and gouges (model violations) are shown as gray/white areas.
The complaint I have is that it is difficult to judge the amount of remaining stock. And it is near impossible to judge the depth of a model violation.
The feature I would like is an additional verification option to compare the simulated body to the CAM model. And be able to quantify the deviation between the two.
In my previous CAM software, Gibbs CAM, I had an option to define a tolerance band. Stock was blue, model was gray, gouges were red. This worked fine, I would adjust the tolerance value and observe the color changes.
I would be happy with a similar capability inside Fusion. However I would suggest an improvement. With the above method ANY stock was blue and ANY gouges were red, still making it difficult to gauge magnitude. I would prefer a user defined color gradient.
An example would be, run the simulation, switch to verification mode, pick a value for max scale (say 0.015"), compute the result, gouges could show as warm colors like yellow for a -0.002" undercut or red for a -0.010" gouge then stock could show as cool colors like blue and purple. By having the user define a max scale this eliminates issues like huge amounts of stock skewing the gradient.
I don't know exactly how this would be implemented but I think it should be fairly straightforward, have the software iteratively swell or shrink the model within the user defined scale then do a Boolean comparison to determine stock and gouges.
I hope that was clear enough, in short I want to see if I forgot to create an operation for any features on the parts I produce.
- Jon
