Forgot settings

Hi guys

I’ve been playing with my meshcam settings and have forgot the perameters I had to get a smooth finish on my parts.

Here are my settings and finished part. Is the step over too large?

Thanks

Tim

@timtom1

Looks like your parallel finish pass hasnt been run yet?
The tooling marks look like 3D roughing. - Oh, I see, your “Stock to leave” setting in your roughing settings was set too low - Typically .01" is the default I believe.
You need to leave enough material on the part for the parallel finish pass to be able to grab.

On your Finish pass the stepover should be 1/10 the cutter for a fine finish.

Heres a TPS file for Hardwood:

125 063 hardwood 3D.tps (2.1 KB)

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Thanks Appoĺlo, I was trying to be quick machining the frames by roughing the stock then parallel finishing the part bit will redo the part with your settings.

Thanks again

Tim

@timtom1
:+1:
The settings and notes will help with creating smoother parts, we can probably get the run time down as well.

Are you using Carbide Create to pocket-plane your stock first?

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Hi Apollo

I’m creating a rough model of the stock in Solidworks then importing that into Meshcam and just using a roughing tool path, I’ve downloaded Carbide create but only watched the training videos and drawing a heart out. Not really used it much.

Thanks for the help

Tim

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What’s the best way to get the run time down?