Roughing Revision 2
I just finished a recompile of the new roughing code integrated with the existing waterline code and it seems much more stable against several of the bugs that people pointed out. There is still potential for problems but I haven’t found anything but some unneeded retracts. Once I get the code tested by a wider audience I’ll try to track down the extra retracts.
I just emailed the code to one of my better testers who gave me some specific problems in the last release. If he gives it the OK then I will probably post a new version in the next two days.
Also, as expected I found some really basic bugs in the waterline code that would lead to some extra retracts and longer toolpath calculation times. It turned out to be a two minute fix once they were found.
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Sounds great Robert.
I havn’t had any trouble with the last roughing version.
I have noticed that the following bug, when you save the toolpaths as seperate files the tool rapids into the centre of the chuck at the start of each file, but if you save them as one file that does not happen.
Rolf
Thanks. I’ll add that to the list of bugs to investigate. Once I get some feedback on the new roughing I’ll move back to the 4th axis code.