High speed toolpaths

[tobyaxis]

Originally Posted by camtd I was thinking about this style - http://www.volumill.com/ The trochordial seems to have alot of excess movement. Would the volumill style make the trochordial style obsolete?

Never heard of it and 2 Axis isn't enough for my personal applications.

It looks pretty good though.

[cadcam]

The guys from that put Volumill together are the ones that used to work for surfcam making the Volcity option for there high speed options. left surfcam and went on there own. Nice tools allot like HSM tool from Cimco systems

[tobyaxis]

Originally Posted by cadcam The guys from that put Volumill together are the ones that used to work for surfcam making the Volcity option for there high speed options. left surfcam and went on there own. Nice tools allot like HSM tool from Cimco systems

That like I said before looks good. but does anyone know how it really performs as far as Features and UI?? I have been stuck in the past with bad software as everyone knows, so now I need to see before even considering any type of purchase.

[mactec54]

Hi Camtd

The VoluMill what you are seeing is a Trochordial tool path & they have just tryed to simulate what most are/have been using for some time I tryed VoluMill back to back with 2 other software packages doing the same job same machine same speeds & feeds & they were slower than the 2 others I tryed them against

[tobyaxis]

Originally Posted by mactec54 Hi Camtd The VoluMill what you are seeing is a Trochordial tool path & they have just tryed to simulate what most are/have been using for some time I tryed VoluMill back to back with 2 other software packages doing the same job same machine same speeds & feeds & they were slower than the 2 others I tryed them against

A number of factors come into play when running the same job on different machines.

Temp, wear, age, location in the building like next to doors with a draft etc.

[bala955]

what were your parameters in surfcam. could you post pic of your setting please

[cadcam]

Originally Posted by bala955 what were your parameters in surfcam. could you post pic of your setting please

I would say you need to post this question in the surfcam aera as this is about Volumill in Mastercam not Surfcam so the chance of getting what you want are slim to none. Sorry

[WallyL7]

Originally Posted by cadcam I would say you need to post this question in the surfcam aera as this is about Volumill in Mastercam not Surfcam so the chance of getting what you want are slim to none. Sorry

Not to mention this thread is nearing 3 years old from the last post!!!