Tool Containment is one of the many tools needed in 3D machining to limit where a tooplath is able to cut. With the Inside/Outside, you can specify a distance as well as whether to include the radius of the selected tool to add too your specified distance.which results in the Total Offset Distance. Inside - toolpath remains inside the boundaryĬenter - center of tool travel to the boundary Given the above tool settings, how these interact with the boundary will depend on the next settings. The center of the tool may exceed the boundary but the contact point of the tool will not. Tool Contact Point - limits the toolpath to keep the contact point of the tool on the selected boundary. Tool Tip - limits the toolpath to keep the tip of the tool on the selected boundary You will select a boundary, pick between containing the tool tip or the tool contact point and then finally, select to Compensate to either Inside, Center, or Outside.
If this is something you want to be able to do I suggest starting with your control and work backwards from there.Īnyways, this post is not about cutter compensation in that sense.so back to the point.Ĭompensate To in 3D toolpaths is a way for you to limit where the toolpath can cut and is found on the Toolpath Control page. some 3D toolpaths in Mastercam support this.your post will also need to be setup to create the correct code for you control.that control also needs to be able to run 3D compensation.so there is a long list of 'ya buts' here to get 3D compensation to work. 2D Cutter Compensationįor the most part, this type of compensation is not done in 3D toolpaths. For more information on this, have a look at that blog posting here. When in 2D, Compensation Type is setting whether or not to output cutter compensation (typically G41/G42), and if so what value should be used for the radius/diameter compensation in the control. This can lead to some confusion when coming from the 2D toolpath world where 'Compensation type' is an option on some toolpaths. On the containment page in some of the 3D toolpaths there is a section called 'Compensate to'. I received a question about 3D toolpath cotainment.
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