Hello and welcome. Today we're going to have a look at how edge breaking in SOLIDCAM could really help you finish off parts perfectly. As we can see, I've got a five axis part that I've done all the machining on. But there's one thing left to do. That's making sure we have no sharp edges in the part. I've started off by using an edge breaking tool path, and let's see what we get from the default settings in the tool path. Open up the SOLIDCAM simulator and expanded it so we can see it's a little better. We can see a place straight away on SOLIDCAM has found all the sharp edges within our parts and applied a tool path to try and break them. You can see turns that all in all five axis because the machine we're using is capable of this whilst maintaining it doesn't collide with the stock or the fixture, as we can see, is gone round, picked out all the edges and done a great job of something straight away. But there is more to this tool path. If we want to define something more specific. For instance, we may not want to address the top of the radii that is currently getting or we may have not wanted to go this deep on the tool path, or we might even not want to go into all five axis of the machine's rotation. All this can be done and let's explore how this is possible from this starting point. Moving out of the SOLIDCAM simulator and turning on the tool path, we can see it's a great job of edge breaking so far. The vertical sections of the bottom of the part I want getting rid of. This is really easy thing to do in automatic edge detection. We can limit by height a simply from changing up from 27 to 25. We can get rid of those if we wanted to go further. Obviously we can raise up further. So two -20 takes the bottom edge out completely. And you can see all of those top surfaces remain to break. Let's move on from this and see how we can optimize this further. We may want to manually edge detect rather than use the automatic function. As you can see, I mission to collect a series of edges on this one side as a representation for when we go and alter any of the parameters. Obviously I can always come back and edit this any time. I'll switch back to automatic from this again or save and calculate. That's all. We'll see how it drastically changes from having lots of edges to just purely the edges that we'd picked previously. A really good way to optimize what you want to do. We can also change the levels of retraction and also change the width of the chamfer that we want to do. In this case, going from point two to half a mill. Again, let's have a look at that under simulation and see what's changed and how it works. Now as the simulator is loaded up and we expand it again, what we should expect is all the edges we've selected to be broken. And this to be done with minimal force and using all the rotary axis available. And as we look through the simulation, that's exactly what we've got. We've no errors been reported. Moving on from this, let's have a look. If your machine doesn't have five axis, what can we do? The first thing I've done is slight three axis. What? This does it just purely take out any rotary or tilt that is. And it's all off currently, but we'll still break the all the edges that are achievable from here. Let's expand the simulator and play this through again to see how our change to move to three axis as affected at all path. As you can see, that all is still clearing up the chamfer that we want to the thickness that we require. However, it's having to do a few more movements to make sure that this is constant. This is because we've taken out the limitation of it cannot move in a rotary axis or a tilt axis. From this, again, we could go and check the simulation and the part to make sure that everything is what we want it to be. The next option we'll look at in output format is for plus one auto tilt. In here we've designed the rotary axis to be the x axis to prioritize that. Well, if there's ever a need to tilt to make sure we cut correctly, this will add it as we need it. As we can see from the simulation, this will be no problem for it whatsoever. So to recap, what we've seen is one of the rotary axis is being kept static. And the second will rotate slightly. So you can see that in the x direction. That's what we've picked. Another option that similar or slightly different results is five axis minimal tilting difference. With this one, you don't have to pick preferential access because you can use all five at the same time. It will still try and minimize the tilt use though. So you only should be moving absolutely when it's necessary. Again, upon reviewing these tool paths, we can see the four plus one auto tilt and a five axis minimal tilting can give similar results for this depends on your machine, on your part. And sometimes one may just edge out slightly, giving you a slightly better finish. The main thing is there's multiple options for you to choose from as and when you need them. Finally, let's move back to full five axis motion like we had originally. Let's review that again just to see where the differences are as it all starts to move. We can see in this instance all axis that can rotate move at the same time and are constantly shifting to make sure that our ball tool is making a constant edge break across each edge and across corners as well, giving you a great result. Another option that's really worth mentioning is a link in here. We can choose to return to the clearance area. I'll go to a clearance blend spline with a blend splaying going straight from one top up to the next in a safe manner, potentially saving you extra time in your deburring in operation. Finally, let's talk about tooling. So far we've only used a ball nose mill, but you can use an end mill or a chamfer mill as well. In this instance, I've got a four mm chamfer Mill and let's look at how the tool path changes slightly as we deal with this different change in tool. As you can see, it's still got all the edges and let's look at the simulator to see how this is changed. Reviewing the tool path created. We can see the tilt in the row tree of the tool is quite different. This all takes into account the differences we have in the tool geometry moving from a ball nose cutter to a chamfer mill. What it will mean, though, is we still get chamfer that we require upon our part to make sure we've machined it absolutely as we expect it. So I hope this whistle stop tour has given you everything you need to get started straight away. With edge breaking in SOLIDCAM, thanks for watching.