Climb Milling

[dannysdad]

I am milling a chamfer on the outside of a 1.625 boss with a 1.02", 45° Chamfer Mill.

 

Using Mastercam, I can only use conventional milling….no? Yes? I do not see any way to reverse direction to climb-mill. I would prefer this method because it is not so hard on the tools.

 

Any ideas??

 

Thanks

 

P.S. I am leaving work soon so if anyone responds, I will not reply until morning.

 

Thanks

[K2csq7]

Expand the operation in the ops manager, click geometry for the geometry window to pop up, right click, reverse direction, (and you will most likely have to) right click, change side. And if your using cutter comp, you may have to switch the compensation direction to the other side in the operations parameters (Cut params branch)

[bet338]

Make sure your chain is running clockwise around the boss and your cut parameters compensation type is set to left.

HTH

[dannysdad]

Oh boy, never thought of that!!!!!

 

Thanks guys!!!

[uncle_dolan]

Geometry selection order is quite often more important thatn you might think!