Movements in X on straight line

[Anonymous]

Hi, Long-time lurker first time poster. 

I am currently trying to use a wrapped toolpath to rough out some plastic parts on a 4th axis.

when posting the program I get ALOT of code with movements in X axis and A on what looks like the safe retract distance.

This is the code it is posting.  

N65 G00 A0.
N70 Z155.
N75 G01 Z152. F333.3
N80 Z122.5
N85 G93 A179.369 F2.6
N90 A358.738 F2.6
N95 A360.145 F332.5
N100 G00 Z155. (This is fine.)

THEN!... 

N105 X-204.873 A359.442
N110 X-204.846 A358.738
N115 X-204.819 A358.035
N120 X-204.793 A357.331
(you get the idea) ...
N2655 X-191.177 A0.703
N2660 X-191.15 A0.

Am I missing a setting to smooth this out? I cant see why it cant just do  X-191.15 A0 after the safe retract?

I have next to no memory left on the machine and this is just one "movement" of around 40 so its adding up! 

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

[Anonymous]

Sorry, just realised the stupid title. 

By straight line I mean it can be a direct path, no need for the little jumps 

[boopathi.sivakumar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous

At the moment there is no smoothing option is available for the 4 th axis rapid linking moves. i suppose you have created a toolpath like multiple profiles  something like below

All the multiaxis moves will be linearized so that's the reason you may get so many lines at the moment we don't have control over that via post / fusion.

One thing you can try instead of selecting all the profile at once you can create multiple operations per profile when your links are more that 90 deg or more 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

will try that next time