defining saws, side cutters and arbors

[BenzB]

Hello,

What is the method you use to create an arbor holder for saws and side cutters? How do you define the screw/nut at the bottom as a non-cutting portion of the tool assembly?

Everything seems to be shank based in Mastercam.

[Leon82]

A while back I was playing with the stand alone tool manager and I think from there you can import a dxf file for your tool. There were 2 colors for cutting and non cutting geometry.

 

I never mess with it but maybe it can help you out

[gcode]

Flush mount saws are easy to define with the MC tool manager

If you need screws or arbor nuts below the saw you're going to have to define a custom tool

This is also true if you want program zero to be on the top edge of the saw.

[Guest]

 

Disregard the note, this was something sent in to QC previously

Edited May 24, 2017 by Guest