Cutting Badge electrodes

[savtav]

Hi There all,

I am a badge manufacture for the car industrie.

Having trouble cutting this electrode Trying to use finish contour but the tool goes to deep. The toolpath can only go past each letter a bit over for clearance,past the rear curviture not the full depth

because i am using small cutters up to .60 mm ballnose cutters

length of cutter is restriced..

Please see file upped at cadcams site executive-elec.zip Mc8 folder... Any help would be greatfull..

Regards sav

[cadcam]

Ok Savtav,

I was able to change the thought.

Take the color10 use this as a "check surface".

With this surface you can control the depth of the tool.

Lower the solid down, by how far you want the tool to go.

Then using "check Surface" you can tell it to leave .001 and the tool will stop there.

If this was not on a curve then I would have said to use "depth Control".

P,s for all other's this file is in Metric so when you bring it in it will change the 1MM end mill to a one inch and change the path when you regen.

Along with this they are solids. Savtav nice job.

Hope this helps.

[ 09-24-2001: Message edited by: cadcam ]

[savtav]

Ok jay , I tried what you said and it did work, and that's what i wanted. But when the tool reaches the check surface the tool jumps up and down in z axis... how can i stop this action need to keep the tool down

please see the new file with the change i made EXECUTIVE-ELEC-2.zip

[cadcam]

Savtav,

i will not beable to look at this till this evening.

I need to out to a customers for the day.

Sorry about the delay.

But you never know some one else might have the answer before then.

[Scott Bond]

Hi

I looked at EXECUTIVE-ELEC-2.zip and changed to .039 cutter dia.,also .1 depths changed to .01 . To me it looks like the tool jumps at each letter ,not at the check surface. Is it possile that the multible shapes simply cause the cutter to jump up and over to the next shape to cut .

[Ambassador]

Savtav, check the third page under "Finish contour parameters" there is a check box to optimize cut order. This will cut down the machining time as it forces the tool to stay down and not jump around as much. Another setting on the same page would be Zig-Zag rather than one way.

Ambassador

[ 09-26-2001: Message edited by: Ambassador ]