Face cleanup

[dannysdad]

I am trying to clean up the face of a 1.562” circular boss with a .625” solid carbide endmill. I only have to remove .01” from the face but I want to leave .001” for a finish pass. I tried to do this process using “contour”, but the roughing pass kept going down to Z0. I couldn’t figure out how to leave that .001” for the finish pass.

 

Am I using the wrong process?

[Guest]

make sure you have 2 finish cuts at .001 distance

[Guest]

and your top of stock is set to .002

[dannysdad]

Hey man, I made a mistake....

 

I am not using "contour", I am using "circlemill".

 

Is it possible using circlemill??

 

Thanks

[Guest]

yup, same thing should get it

[dannysdad]

Mr. Paris,

I am still doing something wrong. I have no problem setting the top of stock to .002, however when you say; "make sure you have 2 finish cuts at .001 distance", I am not sure where this has to be done.

 

Is it on the roughing, finishing or depth cuts page? And what box do I check and/or fill out?

 

I am so confused....

 

Thanks.

[Guest]

On depths of cut branch, with so little stock I would set it to 2 finish cuts at .001, that will cut everything leaving .001 then take a second cut removing only the .001 left

 

HTH

 

[dannysdad]

OK, just by using the "depth cuts" branch only, I was able to control the depth of my cuts....thanks.

 

 

But another query, is there a way to control the feed on the second pass using this method?

[Guest]

But another query, is there a way to control the feed on the second pass using this method?

 

The best way currently, with what you're doing is doing it in 2 ops.

 

There is separate speed and feed on wall passes but not floor passes

[dannysdad]

All right, that is what I resorted to this morning when I couldn't get it to work using one operation.

 

However; I did learn something new this morning and that is always good.

 

Thanks again.