Lathe CAM Inside Turning Collision on retract

sdvdl
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Lathe CAM Inside Turning Collision on retract

sdvdl
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I am doing a boring operation (Profile Roughing; Inside Turning) that leaves .004" stock for a finishing pass. This path works fine. I then created a derived operation for Profile Finishing to clean up the remaining stock. This results in a massive collision between the tool and the wall of the bore upon retraction. Super weird since the operation from which this is derived works with no collision. I've tried a bunch of things, particularly on the Linking tab-->Lead-Out section, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?
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seth.madore
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I change your Clearance to "Inner Radius" and gave it an offset of -.06. I also set your Lead-Out move to be the same as the Lead-In. Result:

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You still end up with collisions, but that's because your insert is diving straight into material left from the drill point. I suggest either drilling slightly deeper with the drill, or pulling your "Back" height setting in your ID Boring operations.


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sdvdl
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Thanks for the quick, detailed response. It works. I'm still perplexed that collisions were introduced when derived from a non-colliding pass -- -I'm really just trying to clean up a roughing pass here. I see that the Linking tab of the Finishing strategy is missing the Clearance section of the Roughing strategy. No idea why, but I guess herein lies the difference. Honestly, I think I'm going to just uncheck Stock to Leave on the roughing strategy and be done with it. I don't trust the Finishing pass, given that I can't actually control the lead out.

 

As for the collision at the bottom of the hole, I took care of that by selecting Drill Tip Through Bottom. Thanks for pointing that one out.

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