5AXIS TOOL PATH

[chadjazwinski]

I have a basic tool path in 5 axis.  But im wondering if there is an easier way to do it so i don't have to change my coordinate system every time? 

[bob.schultz]

From the picture I am going to guess that you want to copy this same tool path around the part for each similar area of the part.  You can easily do this by creating a circular pattern.  Please refer to the following picture.

[chadjazwinski]

No I want to know if I can machine the same area with out having to change my coordinate system every time for every different flat position.

[bob.schultz]

Since the 2D operation is based on the active coordinate system, you will have to change the coordinate system to match each flat area of the part section.

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

@chadjazwinski I'm pretty sure the suggestion made by @bob.schultz will help you for the part you showed.

You have the same operation occur multiple times on different angles. If you do a circular pattern for example(Which I think you need here)

If you do want to program each flat differently than you will have to set the tool orientation accordingly indeed.

[chadjazwinski]

Can you do the same tool path style in 3d? or 5 axis some how?

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

There is 3D Pocket is well. But doing a form of feature recognition isn't possible

I think that that is what you are looking for.

Autodesk HSM and Fusion 360 CAM are model based CAM application and not feature based.

That has advantages and drawbacks of course. And this might be one of them if you don't want to pattern.

[bob.schultz · Accepted solution]

@chadjazwinski From what I can see on the part, you have three flat areas to machine for each section.  You will have to select a new work plane for each of these sections whether you use a 2D or 3D strategy, since both strategies have a fixed tool axis and HSM requires the correct tool orientation for the operation.  There is no 5-axis strategy  to machine these areas and I don't think this is what you want anyway.  It is pretty simple to select the work plane for each of these flats in Fusion.  For the duplicate areas around the part you can use a circular pattern, which simplifies the task by quite a bit, as you only have to create the tool paths for one section and Fusion will copy it around for the other sections.