Problem with facing cycle Can anybody explain to me why this is offset

[Anonymous]

Facing cycle offsetFacing cycle perfect

[HughesTooling]

You'll need to export you f3d and attach. Do you have the stock setup correctly and is the last pass at the top machine all the remaining material? The images in the help are actually probably wrong because the last pass doesn't need to be there if all the material's been machined.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

You can see here the tool path is not symmetrical top to bottom but it's clearing all of the material.

Mark

[Anonymous]

 Yes thank you very much for your reply

I understand that but the example they show  it's completely symmetrical and I can't understand how they did that I seen examples on the Internet they seem to be offset to, as a machinist of 52 years I never Faced any job like that  and to me that is very frustrating 

 I've also worked for 10 years with virtual Gibbs and master cam and they seem to face correctly  correctly 

[HughesTooling]

The pictures in the help just look like something mocked up in a graphics program. If they made it symmetrical you'd pretty much always need to add another pass and the first and last cut would not be equal to intermediate passes. If you find it that irritating you should make a request on the ideastation. Personally don't care as long as it's the most efficient. 

Mark

[Anonymous]

 That's OK thank you very much I can live with it I just preferred to be able to change it if I can't change it that's OK but if there was a way to change it I would appreciate that