Reduced Feed Radius

[richardsalzman]

Quick question on a problem I was working on from an older post.  When you turn on feed optimization, I thought fusion shows the part of the tool path that is slowed down by displaying the slowed down piece in yellow.  Does this mean I have feed optimization setup incorrectly as the tight radius below is not displayed in yellow.

Thanks... Richard

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

If you change the Maximum Direction Change value you can get what I think you want:

[richardsalzman · Accepted solution]

Thanks so much Laurens,

I realized that I uploaded the wrong file Fusion file (new file attached).  Technically they are the same, just a different end mill of the same size.  Just a few questions:

1.  On the correct file with a different 1/8" end mill, I had to reduce the angle to 1 degree.  Not sure why the 5-degree setting you used did not work.

2.  Your reduced federate is 3.75 ipm, my system default is 6 imp.  Did you override this setting.

3.  Lastly, is a reduced feed distance of .025" enough.  I have limited experience with this and curious if it should be like .050

[programming2C78B]

The feed distance is situationally dependent. Watch the simulation to ensure it slows down before the engagement angle increases too much

[richardsalzman]

Thanks Laurens.  That worked great!  Thanks for your help!