3D-contur using stepover instead of stepdown

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am trying to to use 3D-contur, but instead of using a Stepdown I would like to use Stepover in the x-direction. So it is basically a scallop operation along the contour lines. Is there anyway to implement that? I attached the file, where I tried using a couple of different methods, but none of them is ideal. 

Thank you for the help.

[HughesTooling]

Try a setup like this. Course Stepdown fine Stepover.

[HughesTooling]

Not sure how Maximum shallow Stepover works, setting it to 0.01 doesn't have much effect so maybe not as useful as I thought.

[fredsi · Accepted solution]

I can see why you would like the step-over capability, but don't think there is any way to implement. That said, I took profile you are trying to machine and broke it up into two contour operations using the 'Slope' setting in the geometry tab. That way, I was able to change the stepdown in one contour to a much lower number for the surface from 0-20deg (arbitrary choice) and get a finer 'step-over' in this area.

Fred

[jeff.walters]

Contour is designed for more vertical wall and therefor it uses a stepdown, for more horizontal walls (or floors) we recommend using parallel.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for all the replies,

I will try the advice of fredsi. 

@HughesTooling: I tried your approach before but did not get me good results

@jeff.walters parallel will not follow the contours but move only along x or y (at least in my understanding)

[jeff.walters]

In Parallel you have an option to set the angle to whatever works best for you situation. But yes it won’t turn corners.

[Anonymous]

I saw that option, of using parallel and splitting deviding my part into 3 pieces, using different axes

I might still do this and compare the cut.