Cone shaped Hole-Surface mill radial?

[GBeaman]

The detail looks like a giant countersink. I wanted to do a surface mill radial and have the EM interpolate the taper starting at the top and feeding to the bottom. IS the surface mill radial a good choice for this. Right now it shows the tool path going up and down the slope and rotating around to make the part. Can this be changed. I also have a bunch of simple questions about the tool libraries and other basic functions. Can I just fire away and bug you guys with such simple non-sense? I don't have anybody I work with that I can ask. Thanks

-Greg

[bpa123]

if you contact your reseller,they should be able to answer all your questions at once.

[Pat-TGM]

Easy way use 2D contour

 

 

 

HTH

[Hardmill]

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I wanted to do a surface mill radial and have the EM interpolate the taper starting at the top and feeding to the bottom. IS the surface mill radial a good choice for this. Right now it shows the tool path going up and down the slope and rotating around to make the part.

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Thats what radial does.

Try flowline toolpath

 

 

PEACE

[GBeaman]

Flowline does the trick for sure. I will try the tapered wall next. Thanks for the quick response.

Paul-nc...thanks for the neat pictures. How do you capture those? That is pretty nifty to be able to show exactly what you are looking at.

-Greg

[Pat-TGM]

I use Gadwin Printscreen

 

HTH

[crazy^millman]

You can also use the print screen key and Paint. I do it this way all the time.

 

HTH

[Troy Gossett Indepak Inc.]

+1 for flowline great finish,

 

+1 for tapered walls (just remember to grab the bottom circle)Tapered walls also works great for rough pocketing toolpaths and then finishing with tapered endmill(s).

 

Yep use alt+prnt Scrn for just the the active window. Upload the file to photobucket(host the picture) and paste the img code in your text here.

[Henk]

Look here