Originally Posted by moldcore  I do a lot of multiple surface machining and see this all the time. At first I was bothered by it but upon closer inspection I found that the area that appeared to be skipped over was actually within the specified scallop height. |
Thanks for all the input. But my original question is still not being answered. Please look at my two examples in my original post. Then explain why the 3D CUT toolpath and the 3D PLANAR toolpath look different. They should be the same toolpath in this example. One of them is not cutting correctly. And I believe it is the 3D PLANAR toolpath that is not correct. On another part with a different shape entirely, that we cut here, there was a large scallop left after using 3D PLANAR because of this issue with edges and multiple surfaces. It is beginning to look like this is a known SurfCam issue that their software developers will have to correct. Still have not heard a thing from my SurfCam rep. on this issue.