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Inventor HSM - Add "Both ways" or "Mixed" cut direction
We should have the ability to select a mix of both conventional and climb cut in the operations. more specifically in "2D Contour" and especially "Adaptive". There are other software's that have this available and it works great and makes the tool path that much more efficient. Especially on roughing operations like adaptive the tool would simply step forward and cut its way back to the other side as opposed to looping around and only cutting 1 direction.
Right now in 3D adaptive clearing you can only choose from climb or conventional milling, no both way. This adds a lot of useless movement when direction is not important. However tool tip of direction includes all 3 option.
I think the reason behind not having both ways milling in 3D adaptive is because it violates the intent of adaptive milling, which is to maintain a constant load on the tool during cutting. This works with climb milling by itself, or conventional milling by itself, but not when switching back and forth between the two. In situations where the material is soft enough that constant tool load doesn't so much matter, you can use 3D pocket which does have a both ways option.
Both ways adaptive clearing is something we would like to do. There is strong support to do it but not a firm timeline, therefore this will be marked as a future consideration.
I agree with previous poster about violating the intent, but I think it should be on a operator to choose what and how to do. I do only wood, and I don't think it is so "big" violation of intent.
