A Bunch of Fixes

April 30, 2008 · Filed Under MeshCAM Development 

I was able to spend some time tracking down so bugs pointed out by Randy and Daniel in the last release.  The odd parallel linking gouges have been solved, the surface angle bug has been fixed, and I updated the toolpath dialog to make the surface angle more intuitive ( I hope).

 

toolpathdialog

Here is my question to everyone:

Currently, the surface angle setting for parallel finishing is disabled when waterline is used.  I can see where some would want some level of overlap between the two and the current system doesn’t allow that.  I’m leaning toward leaving the separate parallel finish threshold value independent from the waterline threshold.  Comments or complaints?

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4 Responses to “A Bunch of Fixes”

  1. Jay Sandefur on May 1st, 2008 3:51 am

    I would love it if they were independently adjustable. It would give you more control on parts that have both flat and very steep area’s. Right now I use one or the other, and just experiment on which does the best job.

  2. Steve on May 1st, 2008 7:40 am

    It may be handy to have control over this sometimes but I can also see it causing some confusion with new users.
    How will it work? Do we say put an angle of 10 into the parallel finish and 80 into the waterline finish? Would there be the potential to have an unmachined area between or would the finishing always try to overlap anyway?

    Steve

  3. Jeff Demand on May 1st, 2008 9:50 am

    Robert,

    One more vote for independently adjustable, but you already knew I was going to say that :-)
    Jeff

  4. Gerry on May 3rd, 2008 11:52 am

    Independent. But the opposite of what Steve is thinking. Set both to 10°, but parallel would be less than and waterline greater than. I think it’s less confusing that way. If you want 4° of overlap, set parallel to 12° and waterline to 8°.