Hi again,
some time in the past Plunge Angle works (at least at pocket Operation). Aktuell it doesn't work and on some Operation preferences i'm missing the posibility to select/set an plunge angle.
To set a plunge angle is an important thing to save tool live time, why you take it off?
Missing Plunge Angle
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Missing Plunge Angle
Gruß Herbert
Re: Missing Plunge Angle
I don't think any of us took this feature away - but it might have gotten broken at one point.
Also, we're planning to replace the current op specific plunge angle support by a more generic dressup which then can be applied to all paths, and we don't have to implement support for that with every single op.
See http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=2752
Having said all that, how broken is the current implementation? Maybe we need to bump the priority of that issue.
Also, we're planning to replace the current op specific plunge angle support by a more generic dressup which then can be applied to all paths, and we don't have to implement support for that with every single op.
See http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=2752
Having said all that, how broken is the current implementation? Maybe we need to bump the priority of that issue.
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Re: Missing Plunge Angle
The pocket helical and ramp entry code is very brittle and only works for occ pockets. Make sure the report window is open and look for messages. It reports what it is doing as it falls back from helical to ramp to plunge entry. If it can't find a safe place to do a helical it tries the next, etc.
Re: Missing Plunge Angle
Hi Markus,
i didn't read the tracker, sorry...
i didn't read the tracker, sorry...
very to all out...how broken is the current implementation?
Gruß Herbert
Re: Missing Plunge Angle
Hi there,
I contributed the plunge angle feature half a year ago, in commit c862fc006. I also now noticed that it was taken out again, with commit 84b3617c97, "PATH: Delete misplaced and unused files"...
It seems the code is still there, but commented out in now unused routines, it was mostly in the convert() and MakePath() functions of PathUtils.py.
I had a short look into the new code, but it is not entirely obvious to me where the equivalent stuff is in the current revision.
I contributed the plunge angle feature half a year ago, in commit c862fc006. I also now noticed that it was taken out again, with commit 84b3617c97, "PATH: Delete misplaced and unused files"...
It seems the code is still there, but commented out in now unused routines, it was mostly in the convert() and MakePath() functions of PathUtils.py.
I had a short look into the new code, but it is not entirely obvious to me where the equivalent stuff is in the current revision.