Should I have to buy a vac table just to use your software? what kind of pocket is this oh lets just leave whole islands and let the user figure workholding out.
Definitely not gonna cause any crashes… and its a 2d feature.
Carbide Create Pro adds 3D modelling plus high-productivity toolpaths to our free Carbide Create without the steep learning curve of a full 3D CAD/CAM package.
I’m not sure exactly why or what your posting about? Do you have a question for the forum to help you with?
Does anyone have a better pocketing technique? Is this not clearly a problem?
Looks like it’s pocketing what you created to me?
So allow me to enlighten you, as that part becomes free notice nothing holding it? that was part of the pocketing, it was not pocketed from the center carbide create ignored it and left a large chunk that would be plunged into and moved a round ultimately crashing into the rest of the project within that pocket and trying to take a full DoC as it crashes into edges and potentially lifts etc.
Potentially lifting being relevant because of a hunk of plywood spinning at 18000 rpm. Ya dig?
a pocket cuts from inside to out and under no condition is it supposed to be the opposite.
Upload your file?
It should be possible to work out some sort of work-around.
Can I DM it to you or email it?
Did you cut the file or just commenting on the simulation?
I’m monitoring it on camera I see the island forming and I panick run the simulation, speed to the router and save my carbide just in time. The problem is this poses a danger to people. This cut path is also useless in terms of repeatability. Do you intend to provide anything useful to the conversation or are you minimodding?
Also latest version 815 CC Pro
tested as well in 778 same problem
TBF,
This is pretty common with CAM software, that’s why there’s still a human in the loop before sending to the machine. The CAM software doesn’t know what workholding you intend to use, whether it’s really cutting all the way through the stock or a whole load of other things you can see in the real world.
In Fusion I’d either leave some tabs on the island or run a roughing toolpath to remove that material before the main toolpath.
Minimodding? You asked a question, sort of, based on your first post. I can’t help without asking a few questions? Specifically if you needed to buy a vacuum table?
Looks like Will can try and provide assistance. I hope you get your issue resolved.
The island is part of the toolpath it shouldn’t be there. There is no circumstance where this toolpath makes sense. The island is left at full height then milled at the very end. That is dangerous. this is software for beginners. No other software I can guarantee you will generate pockets in which large portions of the pocket are left at full height while the other portions of the same pocket operation are cut to depth.
If one wants to cut a region completely, there are two possible approaches:
The latter is my usual initial inclination, but the former is more straight-forward for this project.
With a Depth per Pass of 2.54mm:
and a desired Max Depth of 9mm:
That is just 4 toolpaths:
Welp that’s definitely better than running it as it was. I’m gonna throw it in meshcam and see what it thinks too. Thanks for the help!
