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  1. #1
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    Facing not symmetrical...

    I'm trying to face my surface with a new (huge) cutter, and it keeps overshooting my soft limits on the machine. When I select an inch or 2 of Stock Offset it's not symmetrical. Then I noticed that it's never symmetrical! Reducing the size of the design has sort of worked... I would like to understand this behavior in Fusion.

    Thanks in advance!
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    Re: Facing not symmetrical...

    I like to live dangerously...

  3. #3
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    Re: Facing not symmetrical...

    Not quite sure what you mean. But Fusion will drive the edge of the cutter to the overlap. Sold let's say you have a 3" fly cutter and tell it to cut one inch past the stock. It will drive the cutter on inch past so there will still be 2 inches on the part making the toolpath appear to be non symmetrical even though it is doing what you told it.

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