Hi All,
I was wondering if some of the experts here can shed some light on this...I am trying to eliminate having the tool do a lot of "air cutting" while creating roughing surfacing toolpaths..anywayz, here is what I mean:
I have a part, as you can see below. The STOCK model for this part, is going to be be very close to what the finished part is, but not as close as for me to just do a finishing path..I want to do a roughing path first....first on the surface you see...
As you can see, doing a flowline rough, assumes that there is a lot more material left, and hence, it creates a lot of air cutting, where basically material is NOT going to be....I wish that there was a way to SPECIFY the stock model, and then do the roughing pass, this way mastercam will know what the stock model looks like, and start from there, not do as much air cutting..I am already importing my stock model as an .stl, and this works great, but somehow for a roughing flowline, MC seems to ignore it...In other words, I want the toolpath to be calculated based on the .stl model...
So, what would be the best tool path to achieve this? Any ideas?
i have also attached the mastercam file is anyone want to take a look at it...
thanks all in advance for any advise!