I posted this on cnczone and someone over there suggested that I post it over here. I am having trouble understanding what to do to fix this type of tool path problem. I am a new user and don't have any previous cam experience, we do almost all of our programming at the machine. What we couldn't do on the machine my boss would do with the Pro. Since he has gotten super busy he sent me to a intro to WF3 and the machining classes so that i could take over those duties. I have gotten several programs done and been mostly satisfied with them but this one was a little more confusing. I did a surface sequence using a window. the issue I ran in to was when the tool path wrapped around the center section it misses some areas causing it to leave a rough finish. I was able to sand out it no problem but I would like to be able to not have to do much hand work. I would like to have a nice part right off the machine. My thought afterwords was to run the surface sequence short of the center and then do a trajectory around that area. I did do a test using a finish sequence but it has a lot of retracts and I wasn't to pleased with that path. I am still really green and tend to learn every time I mess with it. I took the class last simmer but since we only used the WF for complex parts I only get a few parts a month to play with it.
Bernie
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Bernie
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