[viroy]

I'm wondering if there is a way to slow down just the entry cut (first pass)... or better yet, anytime the tool is cutting more than a specific % of the diameter.
For example, I'm doing a simple surface planing of a rectangular block of wood... it leaves a bad surface unless I cut across the grain.
The first cut uses 100% of the diameter, best speed is 500mm/m, but the rest of the passes cut 40% dia and can do 2000mm/m.
To deal with this right now, I manually slow the cnc down until the first pass is complete, then ramp it up.

Is there a way to control speed on just the first pass? or by % of tool dia?


I will also be cutting this soon.
The entry cut will only use 100% of the tool dia for a very short time... but the final passes will have random periods of 100% tool dia cuts, which I would also like to slow down.

[adidoro]

For the FACING toolpath you have the option min side offset default in %, if your max stepover is for example 60% you can chose for min side offset the difference to 100% (40%), to have the same percent of the tool in material. Also tick Equalize tool loading.
For the ROUGHING toolpath I always use Volumill.

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