thanks rich for the dfx as I now know what plane to draw in
The manual covers where to draw in detail and things not to do when drawing.
See Appendix B & C
there looks like there is material left to be cut but when I try to run ANY kind of finish pass, the program says there is no material to be cut..or is this as close as i am going to get
You need to leave material on the stock for finish machining. Your rough should remove most of the material before the finish.
SO you do rough machining and then use the Fine (button) to remove the remainder to the profile outline.......provided the tool can do it.
See the manual page 22.
When there is nothing left to remove from the stock you will see a dark line following the profile.
There is a gap but the line is representing where the tool tip center is away from the stock.
The stock suface will look smooth. If the tool tip radius were, say .001", the dark line woud
be on the contour of the profile. Now if you zoom way in will see that it is actualy away from the stock some.
Do not hack at the program, read the manual. DO pay attention to the figures in the manual.
I took 500 pages of comments from replies / posts relative to LazyTurn and even single one of them was incorporated into the manual.
RICH