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    Spiral Toolpath (Streamline) Question

    Hey Cnc and Capnhook, I am indeed doing some incremental forming, and although I think your solution would work I am hopefully going to move on from simple cone shapes into more asymmetric geometries in the near future. So far I've had success with the -10% starting point in the streamline...
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    Spiral Toolpath (Streamline) Question

    Hey Mark, I see what you're saying, and I do get the cyan lines, but I am trying to (in general) eliminate them entirely. I am actually not milling, I'm doing some incremental sheet forming, but using NX to do this type of contour milling which will give me the toolpath I need for the ISF...
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    Spiral Toolpath (Streamline) Question

    So a bit of an update. As you all suggested, using the starting point as -10% did move the toolpath up to the surface and seems to take care of the issue I had in my first question. However, the toolpath with the streamline is still roughly 2500 lines (which is 500 more than our CNC controller...
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    Spiral Toolpath (Streamline) Question

    Hey Mario and Mark, Thank you both for the suggestions! I'll give them a shot in just about an hour and report back what I'm able to do based on your input. Could I clarify something though with the spiral generation (essentially my 2nd question)? Although I cannot use arcs to simplify the...
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    Spiral Toolpath (Streamline) Question

    Good afternoon all, I'm learning a bit more about the streamline drive for contour milling, and have a question about why my first pass is penetrating the part so much. I'm working on making a toolpath for an incremental forming operation, and to do so I have created a geometry which is the...
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    Extracting X-Y Coordinates from NX Toolpath

    Ah hah! I think I'm finally understanding the suggestion. I had given it a shot, but I thought the steps were still too big, but upon reading Chig's suggestion I think I understand now. I'm working in excel now to parse the information and get the coordinates in a more ordered list, but I am...
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    Extracting X-Y Coordinates from NX Toolpath

    Thanks for the response! But I think what I'm looking for is a bit different from what you explained. When I post process the toolpath I see that it gives me "some" X-Y coordinates, but I am looking for a way to see the coordinates of the tool (say the center of the tool tip) at all points in...
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    Extracting X-Y Coordinates from NX Toolpath

    Good afternoon folks, I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion as to how I could extract the X-Y coordinates of the cutter throughout a toolpath that I created within NX 9's manufacturing module. My issue is that I want to import this toolpath into ABAQUS FEA software, but the way that I...
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