Help with 2D pocketing!

[jta49]

Hello!

I am trying to pocket out a groove in the attached file (the groove is the teeth of the smile). I keep getting the error "

Error: Unsupported geometry for 2D Open Pocket detection!". I have tried this using 2D and 3D pocketing, as well as adaptive clearing. Any idea what is going on?

Thanks!

[leo.castellon]

I tried opening your file and it locks up my computer, so sorry, I can't offer any suggestions. perhaps this morning's update has something to do with it.

Leo C

[seth.madore]

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@leo.castellon wrote:

I tried opening your file and it locks up my computer,

Leo C

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Same.....

😞

[engineguy · Accepted solution]

@jta49 

Yes, it can work with the 3D Pocket Clearing toolpath, needs a slightly smaller tool, 1/4 down to 3/16 and a change to the the Tolerance. See images below and attached modified file 🙂 It "jumps around" somewhat but I will leave you to maybe "tweak" the selection order, I don`t have the computer time to keep making changes for small "tweaks"  🙂 🙂 🙂

This toolpath gets you image two!

Simulation of image one

@leo.castellon 

The reason for the very slow loading etc of the file is that it has hundreds of faces and is almost 13Mb in size, makes for big drain on a computers resources !! 😞

[engineguy]

@jta49 

@seth.madore 

@leo.castellon 

P.S. I ran this file in "Offline" mode, definitely faster for me anyway, very old 11 year computer with only a Second generation i7 processor, 16Gb Ram and Quadro 600 (1Gb Memory), old and slow, same as it`s owner 🙂 🙂 🙂