User Guide

SolidCAM2005 Milling Manual

5-axis Machining

7.6 Surface Quality

7.6.1 Chaining Tolerance

The chaining tolerance is an internal value for the tool path generation and should be 1 to 10 times the

cut tolerance. If you have untrimmed simple surfaces, then this value can be set to 100 times of the

cut tolerance and will increase the calculation speed drastically.

Using higher values in the chaining tolerance can cause inaccuracies. The tool path will not be as good,

but the calculation time will be faster.

Simulate

Exercise5. The CAM-Part is located in the Exercises\Chaining_tolerance.