Surface rough pocket bug?

[neil qwerty]

Hey folks, one of our programmers seem to have stumbled upon a bug in X2 MR2. When writing a surface rough pocket program with a chamfer mill cutter the program is ignoring the stock left on the vertical walls. If I copy the program and change the cutter to a bullnose style cutter it works fine. Has anyone come across this and reported it to QC yet? If not, I'll send it in. I'd post the MCX file but the FTP appears to be down for maintenance.

 

 

Thanks,

Neil.

[Guest]

Neil,

 

Look at thread at the very top, CADCAM's FTP

 

On the tool path, I could be wrong but I don't think it will calculate for a chamfer mill, it will calculate the tool path based on the nose diameter. That is going to cause HUGE issues as you are seeing.

 

flat, bull, ball only I believe

[Mcam Nut]

JP is right, it dosnt work on taper endmills either.

[Hardmill]

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I don't think it will calculate for a chamfer mill, it will calculate the tool path based on the nose diameter.

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PEACE

[neil qwerty]

Posted on John's FTP site as ROUGH POCKET BUG with chamfer mill cutter.MCX (thanks John). That's a real bugger that it won't take a chamfer tool, any idea if this is fixed in X3? It seems to work ok if you use the high speed area clearance.

 

N.

[Guest]

Neil,

 

If you believe it is a bug send it into qc and see what they say.

 

I suspect they are going to reply it functions as designed but then perhaps you could make it an enhancement request.

[neil qwerty]

Sent to QC asking if it's working as intended and if so it would be nice to have a warning come up to let you know that it will not leave the requested stock on the vertical walls.

 

Thanks for your help guys.

[Mark Baker CNC Software]

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it dosnt work on taper endmills either.

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It should. If it doesn't send it to Qc. I ran a simple pocket with a tapered endmill and it left the stock on the vertical walls.