It still hasn't been established that the surfaces you are trying to cut are possible to cut with a wrapped toolpath. Waiting for a call from Gibbscam rep, see they have a good Inventor plugin - fed up with Inventor CAM and can't use Fusion on a daily basis, enough is enough. Same as I tried in Inventor - 2D wrapped contour. Not saying we are going to be doing this stuff, but I'd like to settle on a CAM system that will allow for "everything".įYI - Worked like a charm when I tested doing this in Fusion. I foresee that within the next two years we are likely to exchange or supplement our Haas revolver lathe with a Mazak Integrex or Doosan SMX which does all that fancy stuff that I see in the marketing videos - balanced OD turning or perhaps milling on the second side ops while it's turning on the first side ops. Seeing that you use it - What's your opinion on it? Is it significantly better/more capable than Inventor CAM/Fusion/HSM?
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I was confused - the way they present their software led me to believe this was an official AD product, but I see that it's a 3rd party plugin now. SolidCAMProfessor - YouTubeHi Bryan - Yeah that's the software I was talking about. In any case, there are two youtube channels that are often very helpful (at least to me) for solidcam. Maybe you are talking about a different product with a similar name? So solidcam sells a product called InventorCAM - and I presume (but do not know) that it's solidcam reworked to run inside autodesk inventor rather than inside solidworks. Helped out a bit when I realized I can make dummy sketches in the model and use these to force the toolpaths where I want them to be. Will give swarf another go! Inventor CAM is ok for turning and simple milling, but maintaining some sort of control of the toolpaths for milling is generally a PITA. I've tried the swarf strategy before with no luck - I think it's intended for 5th axis milling heads that can roll around all over the place. As you see the toolpath does not follow the contours. I added some pictures of what I'm trying to do. Without seeing the geometry you're trying to cut I can only guess, but I expect that a swarf toolpath is what you should be looking at.Hi Gregor, I see what you mean - thanks for the input. What you are describing is not a wrapped toolpath, it is a 4ax toolpath.ĪFAIK, Inventorcam has a reasonable amount of 4/5ax strategies available, so I would suggest that you're just looking in the wrong place for the functionality you need. Wrapped surfaces are by definition continuously perpendicular to the tangency of the cylindrical surface. Sorry for this becoming a Monday morning rant - need some more coffee before I brighten up:-) It's cheap as chips, so I'm not putting Fusion down - it's just not for us - we need reliability. It's going to push companies like ours towards MasterCAM and Gibbs and they will be left with the smaller shops (though numerous) using Fusion who can tolerate its shortcomings. So the fact that AD is pushing all development in Fusion and seem to forget the Inventor users is a poor strategy in the long run I think. I hate clouds and that's not going to change. If I were using Fusion there's a good chance we would have been screwed and failed to deliver.
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Those 36 hours of work paid down a full years interest and leasing cost for our Haas ST-30Y. To put things in perspective - we got a rush job where we needed to work all day and all night in order to get the job.
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I haven't used Fusion much, but I still had four or five occasions when it didn't work - connectivity issues with cloud or some bullshit. The fact that you can't open files directly from a disk in Fusion is absolutely nuts. But we are a business which is growing steadily and we have about a thousand unique parts that are all used in various assemblies and associated drawings, so for the foreseeable future we will try to keep everything within Inventor in order to avoid a revision hell. That being said, we have Fusion and we used it earlier, especially for 3 axis router work. Who knows - maybe one day I can see my tailstock in the simulation as well:-) I just checked out that new feature you mentioned, it's moving in the right direction.
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My Solidworks HSM don't come in with the toolpaths or help sketches.Apologies for late answer. I believe your Inventor files will import nicely now. They have recently added Collision avoidance to 4th rotary in Fusion 360 That may help you.Īll of the new development will be in Fusion.