As shown below the toolpath direction is the same after changing Other Way to One Way:
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I believe that changing the option to "other way" just changes the end/side that the toolpath starts from, Morphed Spiral should I think always cut in the "Climb" direction.
@FrodoLoggins Thanks for feedback. You can use "clockwise" option to change toolpath direction.
But I agree that UI is a little bit confusing. I'll create a ticket.
Any way for the user to specify if they want the toolpath to start bottom > top instead of top > bottom like this:
Any plans on improving direction control with the spiral toolpath?
Making Spiral perform a facing operation that Rob Lockwood demonstrated a while back is finicky 99% of the time.
Something simple like this either takes 5 minutes of playing around or luck that some setting doesn't interfere with another:
Getting it to face off a part is easy but getting it to face off a part without plunging into the stock or conventional milling is not.
"Clockwise" checkbox, link from "out-in", "oneway/other way" all seem to either not make any change, or randomly interfere with another setting.
Took me 10 minutes to find the right combination on 2 facing operations (because it's so finicky) and now for the 3rd of 4th it's impossible. Tried everything, won't do it. Just not doing what I tell it to and not doing what I tell it not to do (because sometimes that works).
Identical feature: Same settings, different settings; either the tool is conventional milling or it's plunging into the stock.
Sometimes it won't work so I'll change something > still won't work > change setting back > it works.
Hi @FrodoLoggins,
Thanks for feedback. Could you please provide problemtic examples specially when seeting doesn't work initial but start working at some point as you described above?
"Clockwise" - specifies direction of the spiral from inside (It means that tool moves ccw when outside->in selected)
" Inside/Outside Directions" - works as expected. Forcing tool to move outside->in or inside->out.
As I said "Direction" option is confusing. I use "One way" to avoid direction swapping for cutting paths.
Hi so for example this spiral toolpath. It does mill outside > in as specified, but it doesn't climb mill nor mill clockwise no matter what I do:
Here's another example. Mills out > in but not clockwise:
It works for me as expected. As I said it defines direction of spiral from inside not along your cutting direction.
"CW" direction for spiral
"CCW" direction for spiral
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