Profile/2D Contour

[mmprestine]

Just checking out HSMxpress and have a basic question. If I want to 2D Contour (profile) a part how is it possible to set the depth of cut? If I create a contour it always goes to the full depth of the part and only a single pass. What am I missing?

[cygnus x-1]

Under the heights tab, the "Bottom" setting determines the depth of cut. The default is to use the depth of the selected contour as the cut depth. But you can offset this, or choose one of the other methods for determining the depth.

There is a ton of useful information here:

Solid Code Solutions | HSMWorks Tips & Tricks

Some of them only apply to the full HSMWorks but many (if not most) apply to HSMXpress also.


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[mmprestine]

Thanks for the info. I was getting everything setup correctly but seemed to overlook the checkbox labeled "multiple depths", solved everthing. This allows a setting for setting the depth that the z-axis will cut per pass.

[cygnus x-1]

Originally Posted by mmprestine Thanks for the info. I was getting everything setup correctly but seemed to overlook the checkbox labeled "multiple depths", solved everthing. This allows a setting for setting the depth that the z-axis will cut per pass.

Ah, ok. There's that too.

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