Why is my roughing pass leaving so much material for my finishing pass?
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yeah its in the pics. the amount left on the Z is nuts.
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You are using two different tools. I suspect the first tool has a large stepdown, that is leaving 0.5mm at some part of that path. I bet if you play with a smaller stepdown it will give a little finer resolution on where to leave material.
I bet these three spots are at 0.5mm.
Smaller first tool stepdown and just move faster to compensate for lost time.
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I was at pretty basic settings. what would you recommend? also I cant 100% guarantee these were the settings on my cut because I upgraded estlcam and uninstalled the old one without backing up my settings. Genius move right?
I don’t carve very much to have solid suggestions and it changes drastically with each type.
In the end the finishing pass with a tiny step over probably does not care much about all the extra material.
You can do half the step-down at twice the feedrate, and keep the finishing settings. That might have much less roughing left over. You can also try waterline instead of parallel for roughing.
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Oh man, that looks good. I only had one snow day this year and now it is gone for the most part. I hope we get some snow soon or I am coming out there and riding with you.
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Maybe that could be a Sandify pattern? Skiing down the slopes.
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We’ve had snow for a few weeks now. Not much, but always a bit. Hadn’t happened in years.
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It’s been pretty abismal. It was snowing that day, but it was pretty much dust on crust. I have had 2-3 good days. But the snow was honestly better in late November because they were still making snow the hard way.
I’ve heard Vermont and Japan are the place to go. Or else, come over next year. It will be better.
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We are set to get snow this week in the hills. Fingers crossed. Most of them have been pumping snow the whole time as well so some of the runs are almost worth driving 2 hours there and 2 hours back for.
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I sure hope so too! I’m heading to Tahoe the first week of March.
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Our snow hills are inside the boundaries of national forrests. So they aren’t allowed to buy water to make snow after Jan 1. The snow was honestly better some days in December than most of January.
However, I have heard rumors of 24" or more this week. I can’t ski this week, but anything to boost the base. Hopefully it continues and I can enjoy it next week.
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