Machining outside of Settings?

DareBee · Post by **DareBee** » Mon May 03, 2004 6:15 am

VM5 seems to go out of its way to machine things it shouldn't when optimized machining is turned on!
I created a horizantal finishing MOP on a part.
In cut levels I set the top height and the bottom height of the area I wanted to machine. There is an XY surface to be cleaned up in this area so I turned on "OPTIMIZED XY MACHINING BETWEEN LEVELS" to set the parameters.
This worked fine for the surface I wanted to cleanup.
The problem is that VM went way out of its way to clean up a surface below and a surface above the MIN and MAX Z levels that I previously set in the cut level dialogue.
If I turn optimized off; VM reverts to only machining stuff between the givin settings.
This really doesnt seem right.
My reseller was in to give me hand and he couldn't figure out why either.

DareBee · Post by **DareBee** » Sat May 15, 2004 1:40 pm

<BUMP>
Mecsoft support may have missed this?

Post by **MecSoft Support** » Mon May 17, 2004 10:26 am

Hi DareBee,
It would be best if you can send us a vmp file that exhibits this behaviour. We will take a look at it to determine what is going on. Please send it to [email protected]