Round Boring Bars... What gives?

[Mick]

I was playing around with the Mastercam to Vericut C-hook earlier. I noticed that the boring bars were coming through as square shanks. No problem I thought... I'll just change to a round shank (remembering that feature from X4).

 

Well, I just noticed, that it is only external turning tools that can have a round shank, and not boring bars... What gives with that?

 

Am I doing something wrong? Or missing something?

[Greg Williams]

What version of Vericut?

[Mick]

Version 7.1.1

 

I haven't used Vericut all that much, and I was lined up to go to both the Vericut and Machine building courses in March, but the company pulled the pin on it

 

So for now, I'm resigned to trying to teach myself.

[Mgrenier]

Try this link. I know it helped me alot.

Vericut forum

[Mick]

Its a Mastercam question, not a Vericut question

[Guest]

Looks round in Verify to me

 

 

[Mick]

Ok, I need to revisit this. On the weekend, I tried defining a boring bar in X5 (MU1 PC), but it didn't give me the option of a square or round shank. It was definitely a boring bar I had chosen, as I checked that several times.

 

I'll check that tonight.

 

I need to scratch my head more...

[Bob Hedrick]

I was playing around with the Mastercam to Vericut C-hook earlier. I noticed that the boring bars were coming through as square shanks. No problem I thought... I'll just change to a round shank (remembering that feature from X4).

 

Well, I just noticed, that it is only external turning tools that can have a round shank, and not boring bars... What gives with that?

 

Am I doing something wrong? Or missing something?

Boring bars are assumed to always have a round shank. The 'A' dimension is the bar diameter.