Good! I run into this with customers all the time. I think there could be a future where this little trick isn’t need any longer, but until then is now, it’s a helpful one to know how to use.

Sorry for the delayed reply. Things are a little crazy in the world right now. Glad you liked it. It is pretty amazing how often -tolerance will improve a toolpath. Thanks for the comment.

Thanks Mike. And thanks for sharing the video!

You're welcome. :) Thanks for the great info!

I've always been good about using them on the CAD side, but now I'm focused on bringing them to the CAM side too. I'm looking to add some intelligence to tool paths instead of just keying in static numbers.

This one is a big one. So many times I show this to people who have been struggling and it is fun to see the lightbulb come on for them.

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Awesome! And thanks for subscribing. I appreciate it!

Now if only I made coffee. haha Can you clarify what you mean here?

Glad you found some value. Rob Lockwood did a video on the scallop toolpath that I think will be well worth your time to watch. The video uses HSMWorks but the same concepts apply in Fusion. Rob has probably forgotten more than I know when it comes to surfacing toolpaths. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdyDa9pinsXaZXU.html

@@MechanicalAdvantage Thank you. I'll check it out.

Thanks for the comment.

Thanks for the comment. I hope you found it useful.

Thanks for the comment. I'm glad you found the information useful.

I know what you mean. When I found out how to fix this it changed my life.

No, thank you for watching. I learned this trick from Rob Lockwood, who is really really good with this stuff. But I find so many users are helped by this method.

Thanks. This was a huge timesaver for me after I started using this.

Thanks. You already had this tip in your hat though.

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Hi Peter. Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you found it helpful.

Hi Shand. I'm glad you found it helpful. Thanks for the comment!

automan1223 You will need to include the whole boundary of the fillet in your selection. Look back at a video I did about CAM selection techniques. Or you can send the file to info@mechanicaladvantage.com

Thanks Tony

Hopefully this helps. Thanks for stopping by.

Glad you found it useful. Thanks for the comment.

Dude, you're welcome! :-)

Hey emslv. Awesome, thank you so much.

Generally yes. That along with checking the box for contact point boundary. You then shouldn't need to use avoid surfaces.

No. There are some things you can try. In preferences you may see a “reduce whisper cuts” in preview preferences. If it isn’t there for you, just ignore what I said. You saw nothing haha The other thing you can try is to right click on the toolpath and then choose compare and edit from that menu. In the search box type tri which should find the surface triangulation field for you. There will be a value in the expression field. Click the value and you will see an expression. Leave the beginning part of the equation as is, but change the .5 value to .1 and see if that doesn’t clean things up a bit for you.

Thank you.

G Bancroft What toolpath strategy are you using for this?

I'm using a parallel toolpath with a 90 deg pass direction. But today I figured out how to change the starting point. I just changed the pass direction to -90. Thanks for replying.

I’m not sure what the slop feature is?

Why 40%? Why not 43% or 38%? What if the top of the feature isn't planar or easily selectable? Why not set the additional offset to -tolerance and set it as a default? The video tries to explain what Fusion is doing behind the scenes and why you get the results you do sometimes and how to fix it.

No Patreon. I just like to help. These things are a small snippet that customers can pick up one of the training classes I provide. So I like to drop some info to common issues I see and maybe if people find them useful they will sign up for a training class where they get this in the matter of 4 days instead of picking nuggets of info here and there over a long period of time. Glad it was helpful.

@@MechanicalAdvantage you offer a training class? Im interested

@@JayVon_Ro Yes. That is how I make my living. Sometimes I do them directly and sometimes others contract me to provide classes. For instance, I did all the classes at NYC CNC from about 2016 until Covid brought that to an end. I'll be doing more direct classes in 2022. The new schedule will drop in the next week or two. You can see what classes I offer here and soon dates will be listed for these classes. www.mechanicaladvantage.com/training

@@MechanicalAdvantage definitely let me know when that drops. Seems the schedule training url isnt updated. I'll for sure be signing up for fusion 360 mill training. Your videos here have helped tremendously, I cant imagine what a curated paid for session would bring. Very exciting.

Really wasn’t the point of the video. That could be changed by changing the pass direction to 180.