Adaptive clearing ignoring certain areas

[evanp4509U4JZ]

Can anybody tell me why adaptive clearing is ignoring areas that parallel is picking up? In the attached file adaptive clearing ignores the mount locations ( kidney bean, oval and round "towers") in all but the first pass leaving towers nearly 5/8" tall. If I select "defect flat surfaces" it recognizes and removes the oval towards the muzzle but leaves the others.

Thanks in advance.

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

I think using silhouette as your boundary was confusing the op because you had 4 bodies selected. If you select the outer profile of the main block as your boundary and select stock contours you get a good pocketing toolpath without any coalitions.

See attached file.

Mark

[evanp4509U4JZ]

OK, Thank you. 

I never thought of it getting put off by that. I just assumed that everything within the boundary would be included. I didn't combine it because this is still prototype stage and the height of the mounts isnt set in stone yet and they're easier to move uncombined.

Thanks again

[evanp4509U4JZ]

I ran it the way you said and it worked fine. Then I ran it with the top perimeter of the mold selected as the " selection" as ended up with this anomaly in the corner. I tried it this way because we use a vacuum fixture with two fences to locate the raw material. The raw stock is 8x9 and the finished part is 7.5x8.5 so 1/4" around the part still leaves the fence untouched in case I forget to offset from the stock bottom in "heights". Should I sketch the mold perimeter and use that as the boundary? I don't understand how that would be different but I'm more concerned with what will work than why.