Tool collision in rotary mode

Tool collision in rotary mode

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Tool collision in rotary mode

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Hi ladies and gents,

I have to say in advance that I started using fusion only since a few months but I learned a lot thanks to the web. I am trying to mill a statue on my rotary axis. The file is an STL that I was not able to transform into a solid, because has too may faces. Facing and roughing with the rotary axis in adaptive mode is OK, but when I try to make the final pass with the rotary axis the tool is literally going through the body in two point, close to the feet and in the neck, the rest of the toolpath is fine. This happens not only in the simulation, but also on the real model, which luckily was made of wood, therefore I did not break anything. Please have alook at the picture attached. Any idea of what am I doing wrong?

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I was playing with this same model few months earlier but I think I was able to download it as step file.

 

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Crashes around head area are due to rotary axis being outside of model, this model is difficult for rotary tool path because head is tilted forward.

If you make a sketch line that passes thru entire model or get very close then use that line in setup as X axis orientation you would minimize the problem.

As you see in the screenshot, most problems are where rotary axis is exposed, tool is confused between cutting model and circling around axis.

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I think I found where is the problem. If you switch off the tool detection the rotary path will be OK, the only thing is that you have to check manually that the tool is long enough to avoid collision. In other terms, the automatic shaft and holder detection does not work properly on the rotary axis.

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It helps but it is not core of the problem or complete solution, it's been proven in other threads that rotary axis outside model is the culprit for odd tool behavior. The reason is that tool attempts to rotate around X axis and cut model at the same time resulting in wide loops and unpredictable motions that may or may not manifest as crashes.

 

Run attached file and look at what happens as tool encounters area where rotational axis in outside of model.

 

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