5 axis contouring and profiling troubles
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Hey everyone,
So I've been struggling to get a usable toolpath with fusions' 5-axis/ multi-axis options. I've attached a part file and screenshot to make things easier to understand. Its a section from the full part but the area in question is colored green.
My goal is to have a 0.06 bull endmill walk around edge while maintaining perpendicularity with the bottom surface to finish both the walls, bottom, and create that 0.06 fillet in the bottom. I have tried flow, swarf, multi-axis contour, as well as 3d contour with multi-axis tilt but unfortunately haven't been able to get anything close with anything but flow. However the flow toolpath has a bunch of its own problems that I cannot seem to fix. They are:
- toolpath won't extend to the walls (tried deleting bottom fillets but nothing changed)
- stepovers don't match the number specified (in screenshot 2 shown, 5 specified)
- one of the surfaces has waaaay too many point which causes machine jitters and smoothing doesn't help until its past the allowable deviation.
- flow doesn't seem like the right operation for doing the finish profile, still need to figure out how to do that.
Anyone got some suggestions?
I greatly appreciate any and all ideas on this.
Thanks,
Fusion