Why is the adaptive clearing cut going down 10mm not 5mm?

[ghiggsUVQ9T]

Hi there,

I'm using an Adaptive clearing to remove material.

for the first cut it is taking off 10mm of material, even though I have selected 5mm on the passes tab?

if its set to 4mm it doesn't take off 10mm but with a 5mm setting it does???

Please see the attached file.

Thanks

Glen

[engineguy]

@ghiggsUVQ9T 

It is because you have the Max and Fine settings to the same value, from what I have seen anything up to 5.9mm in both will double up, going to 6mm and above and it seems to work OK.

If you want a smaller step down of say 5mm then set the values to 2.5mm in both and you will get something close to the 5mm DOC, this workaround does the trick 🙂

Stay Safe

Regards

Rob

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

Seems to be something to do with rest machining. If you uncheck Rest and use Stock Contours, don't select a contour so the stock outline is used, it works how you'd expect. Files attached. Your selection under model seemed wrong so I reselected just the patches in the browser.

Mark

[ghiggsUVQ9T]

@engineguy,

Thanks for taking the time to help out with this issue, really appreciate the suggestions!!

Thanks

Glen

[ghiggsUVQ9T]

@ Hughes Tooling,

Thanks for taking the time to solve this issue!!! and thanks for the sample!

There is so much to learn and so many tweaks that one must be aware of and learn.

Glen