Trimming

This option affects the path when the Lead fitting is Minimize trimming or Fully trim pass.

When a lead arc is added to a horizontal machining pass, the length of pass trimmed off will be at most the radius of the arc. However, when adding an arc to a steep finishing pass, the length of pass trimmed (trimming distance) will be much greater.

Such trimming of the passes can result in the occurrence of large unmachined areas. To avoid this, SolidCAM enables you to limit the trimming distance with the Max Trimming Distance parameter. If the trimming distance exceeds this value, then no arc is used; the whole pass is machined, and a straight vertical motion is added.

 

Related Topics

  1. Basic approaches
  2. Extensions
  3. Fitting
  4. Horizontal Leads
  5. Leads Parameters
  6. Vertical leads