Bug: Unmachined material with Face Milling

[Jaanyaar]

There are missed segments for one of the portions of the block! One portion is correct, one portion is not. There will be unmachined stock at the end. This behavior is observed on 2 differnt projects with the same circumstances.

 

 

[DanielMolloy]

Hi @Jaanyaar 

I would agree that you have probably run into a bug, I have been playing around with this and it appears to be related to the stepover. When you set the stepover to less than 50% of the tool diameter (in my case 24.99mm) the part is machined correctly however at 50% and over (25mm) material is left, see attached screenshots.

[Benjamin.Br]

Hello @Jaanyaar  and @DanielMolloy . I'm sorry that you are having problems with PowerMill. Can you tell me which version of PowerMill you are seeing these issues with - the exact version number from the about box would be best please - and whether they are issues you are only seeing following an update?

[Jaanyaar]

@Benjamin.Br 
I'm not using the 3rd update for PM 2021 yet. And there is no address for this bug inside its change log. I'm on the version 2021.0.2.2021030. 

[DanielMolloy]

Hey @Benjamin.Br 

I have just upgraded to Version: 2021.0.3.2021032 and can confirm the same result as the previous version.

[Benjamin.Br]

Thank you for the extra information. I have opened a bug report for this to be investigated. For your reference, the internal issue number is PMILL-14409.

[DanielMolloy]

Hello @Benjamin.Br 

Thank you for your assistance with this matter.