I am new to this community and also relatively new to the software so any help you can give will be appreciated.
I am trying to mill a part using an endmill. I can go into machine mode and choose the endmill parameters and then choose the profile. Since the bit is small, I want to mill the area in 8 or 9 steps and also use a slow feed rate and plunge force (?)
The problem is that after each pass the simulation shows the mill returning to its home postion (which is quarter inch above the top surface) instead of going through all the passes in one smooth motion. Due to this problem the total milling time becomes extremely long.
I know there is are some setting within roughing window (or otherwise) that I am not using properly since I have in the past been able to do exactly what I want to repeat for this design but I can't figure out what those setting were.
I am using windows xp with edgecam 11.