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paulcoombs1-Visitor
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October 26, 2012
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Surface milling by cutlines removed in Creo2

  • October 26, 2012
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Thankyou PTC, for removing one of the best features in your manufacturing option.

I can see you 'tried' to replace it with cutline milling, but whilst the end result may be the same in terms of NC code, the command interface is seriously slow, clunky and has brought my workstation to it's knee's on the multiple attempts using it.

Creo 2 (M020) now uninstalled and back to Creo 1, I will not renew maintainace contract unless this improves or goes back to how it was, there's no point if the newer versions aren't any better !?

Just don't understand why you (PTC) have to fiddle with features that work REALLY well, and keep your existing user-base from straying to other software, of which some are now much better and cheaper to license

Thankyou again

Paul

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SergDubrovskiy1-Visitor
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October 26, 2012

http://learningexchange.ptc.com/tutorial/2483/extra-slices-in-cut-line-milling

http://learningexchange.ptc.com/tutorial/2481/auto-cutline-option-for-helical-type-toolpaths

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paulcoombs1-VisitorAuthor
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October 26, 2012

Thankyou Sergey, What you replied with wasn't what I meant.

With surface milling sequences, in Pro/E from 2001, Wildfire 1-5, and Creo 1, there was the option to select surfacing by 'cutlines'.

That option is no longer there, as below...

by-cut-lines.PNG

instead, replaced by a 'Cutline Milling' tool, that slow's down a reasonably powerful workstation to a crawl for some unknown reason, as it seems to have the whole part background selected even if you're only trying to work with a small mill-surface ?

It's one of the tools I use most often, and can't understand why it's been removed ?

I appreciate the thought though, thankyou

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SergDubrovskiy1-Visitor
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October 26, 2012

In Creo 2.0 is a separate NC sequence (for 3x milling).

For 4-5x surface milling - old interface (dialog).

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