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I got the turning Model override to work with a simple open profile sketch with outside profiling... but really I wanted to know if it could handle a 45 degree face groove. It seems it can't, or I don't understand what it needs. I haven't tried a closed profile yet. But see the attached file to see that it doesn't work.
Open Model Profile working.
Open Model Profile not working
Scott Moyse
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Shiny!!
Scott Moyse
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I accept that the tool will run down the face.
Scott Moyse
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The problem can as you suggested, be solved by creating a closed profile.
The turning tool paths are generated from closed profiles. When we get an open profile we close it by adding lines from the end points to and along the axis. This only works in simple cases, and can easily result in a profile that is self intersecting and thus invalid.
I think we need to detect and report this, and also explain to the user why this happens.
Mikkel Østergaard
CAM Sr. Sw. Engineer
The log now contains explanations when this fails.
It would be nice to warn the user of this before the job is submitted, we are discussing how to do this as we do not want to interrupt the workflow if the selection is temporarily invalid.
Mikkel Østergaard
CAM Sr. Sw. Engineer
@mikkel.ostergaard wrote:
The log now contains explanations when this fails.
It would be nice to warn the user of this before the job is submitted, we are discussing how to do this as we do not want to interrupt the workflow if the selection is temporarily invalid.
That seems like a perfect tooltip solution to me?
Scott Moyse
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