Fusion
Hello -
Been using HSMWorks with SolidWorks for a couple of years. No formal training on HSM, but a fair bit of YouTube University has gotten me fairly proficient at the 2.5 axis machining I'm typically doing. I'm considering adding 5th axis to my machine (Haas TM3P) and before I pull that trigger I wanted to make sure I could actually be productive on it, so started trying to make some toolpaths. I've never used Machine Simulation before, but with the additional axes, I wanted to learn that to keep me from crashing.
I went ahead and built out a machine and equipped it with the 5th axis unit I'm considering. I was able to get it setup, I believe correctly, using this vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJuArpNenJ4.
When I just run a simulation of my part, it machines correctly. But if I do a machine simulation, it's nowhere close to the part. The axes all look like they are behaving correctly, but I'm machining air that is ~12" above my part and 4" to the left of it. I'm guessing there's some kind of offset issue, but everywhere I've found to tweak offsets doesn't fix it.
There's a screen cap below where you can see what I see during a Machine Simulation run. The red toolpath line shows what it thinks it's drilling, and the Z motion is infact drilling motion, just not in the part. The various other faces rotate around correctly and the drilling continues, just with that same offset. 
Any wisdom????
