Stock on facing

[magicniner]

It sounds as if you have your Part Zero set as the top of the stock and the program is detecting the depth for the pocket as the difference between Part Zero and the bottom of the pocket on your solid model, are you choosing the top of your pocket as the top of your solid model without adjusting the pocket depth manually?

[dfox1787]

It sounds as if you have your Part Zero set as the top of the stock and the program is detecting the depth for the pocket as the difference between Part Zero and the bottom of the pocket on your solid model, are you choosing the top of your pocket as the top of your solid model without adjusting the pocket depth manually?

That would make sense.

I'll see if I can set a new z position at the top of the part rather than the stock.

After the facing operation the z psoisition would no longer be at the stocks surface but that of the part.


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[dfox1787]

I think i have resolved this now.

the issue has been my lack of understanding the "heights" within the tool paths.

thank you to everyone who has had any input on this.

[Neale]

That's great. I had a feeling the problem was lack of understanding of a bunch of parameters around heights. They make sense, but it does take a while to get to grips with what they really mean. Now you can move on to interpreting all the rest of the CAM parameters and settings - good luck with that! You do eventually reach the point where you know the ones that are important and the ones where you can happily leave the defaults.