Ok this has been a long time peeve of mine. If you have a part like a pulley for example where you have 2 sides that are full diameter and a recessed portion between them, so far ALL versions I have used have been a pain to get good toolpath.
I bought v6 recently and I am waiting for the download link but I had to start programming it today with v5. So I tried a few different things.
I tried using the grooving feature and if I select the 2 vertical walls and the floor the tool will cut the 1st full height wall off. Also, there is supposed to be a chamfer on both walls breaking the outer edge but if I select that geometry (.005" chamfer in this case) the toolpath only goes down the depth of the chamfer all the way across the recess area. So I posted the code and Manually went in and changed the depth to get the part program ready to run. NOT very time effective! I messed with the lead-ins and lead outs but they wouldn't give me what I needed.
Anyone running V29 or V6 that can tell me if this is fixed or not? I am sure anyone else who uses lathe would have run into this, It could be me but I think I am pretty good with bobcad having used it since v17 and pretty much every version since then.
TIA
Eric