5ax toolpath you rely on most

[lowcountrycamo]

I did take the McamUnv multi axis but it focused mostly on 5ax curves.  Other than that, I am self teaching 5ax.  So far I have used Swarf and Curves exclusively.  I do mostly aerospace parts with angled walls with steps.  We have Table/Table and Head/Head mills.  What 5ax path to you use most and why, Please.

 

Thanks,

Steve Austin

[Guest]

I know Ron will answer Morph between 2 curves

Powerful path it is....

 

[huskermcdoogle]

Parallel, Morph, and Curve. In that order and pretty much nothing else.

[lowcountrycamo]

13 minutes ago, huskermcdoogle said:

Parallel, Morph, and Curve. In that order and pretty much nothing else.

Are those used only for surface type ops with a ball mill or can you also use those for side milling.  I guess I am trying to understand what it possible?

[huskermcdoogle]

I'll use them with both ball and square end.  but I have not used them for side milling.

[lowcountrycamo]

Just thinking, if a curve can be projected up at the correct plane it can be used for tool axis  control to side mill walls.   Is that correct?

[huskermcdoogle]

I guess probably.  Can't see it was the easiest approach for side milling walls though.

[Jayson Kramer]

50 minutes ago, lowcountrycamo said:

I did take the McamUnv multi axis but it focused mostly on 5ax curves.  Other than that, I am self teaching 5ax.  So far I have used Swarf and Curves exclusively.  I do mostly aerospace parts with angled walls with steps.  We have Table/Table and Head/Head mills.  What 5ax path to you use most and why, Please.

 

Thanks,

Steve Austin

To bad you did not take the new course for 2018 we covered many types of paths as the two are only to of many paths that we covered in the new one coming out.
I agree Morph is a fav along with Parallel and along curve.

[David Colin]

Morph is often my first choice. Very versatile and a lot of control.  

[jlw™]

drill, flow5, morhp, curve, swarf

 

head/head and table/heads here.  flow5 seems to give the best motion on table/head and morph on head/head.

 

I have also been playing with port for some non-port features and pleased with the results.

[crazy^millman]

Let me see which one is my favorite? Parallel is about neck and neck with morph now. Just helped a customer finish up a project on a Ti part. We are taking 36lbs of Ti and turning it into 1.5lbs in about 7 hours. Nice when you pull a part off the machine and the burr hands are asking are you trying to put me out of work. 5Axis is much art as it is the toolpaths. Each part presents its owns process and up to us to figure out the best way to tackle it. 

[?Mark]

1. Port Expert is the most common for me and almost replaced all the flow 5 axis here

2.  Swarf and curve

3. I need to give the morph a try since Ron seems to like it so much

 

[lowcountrycamo]

I will try to expand my knowledge of these.  Thank you all for responding.  I plan to take more 5ax courses soon.  Boss has offered to send me to the 2 day Multi Ax in Atlanta at CadCamSolutions.  Just waiting the next class to be announced. 

[JohnW@Kauffman]

Most of my work is trimming vacuum formed parts, so my go-to path is 5 ax curve.  I use a lot of morph when machining a mold, especially with some of the shapes of our parts.

[Patternmaker706]

Multi surface with drive and comp surfaces... keeps the ball nose normal to the drive surface and I usually keep tool axis at 45 degrees.  Also curve 5 axis frequently for cutting draft angles on straight vertical surfaces.