swarf milling

[Gary Camp]

I'm having trouble working out how to make my tool cut 1mm past my lower rail when swarf milling on mastercam 2017. I would like to add a break through or something along those lines but cant see any options to do so.

[Chris In-House Solutions]

Gary there are a couple of swarf toolpaths in Mastercam.  If you use the Swarf on the Application page you can tell the tool to go deeper using the collision control page as shown in the screen shot below.  

[Aaron Eberhard]

For Swarf Milling, it's actually on the MultiCuts page.  Look under Tool Shift under Guidance.   If you only have one pass, it doesn't make sense for it to be there, I know   The cool thing is that if you're doing multiple passes, you can shift the tool down for each pass, so if you're cutting or trimming composites, you don't burn a slot into your endmill.   

I haven't figured out a better way to interface it when you only have one cut, because then it would be more appropriate on the Cut Pattern page in that case.  It's one of those "once you learn it" things for now. 

[Sumac Andy]

On 6/2/2017 at 2:28 PM, Chris Lang In-House Solutions said:

Gary there are a couple of swarf toolpaths in Mastercam.  If you use the Swarf on the Application page you can tell the tool to go deeper using the collision control page as shown in the screen shot below.  

Hi Chris.

Is this in 2017?  I can't see that 'window'

[Sumac Andy]

On 6/2/2017 at 2:28 PM, Chris Lang In-House Solutions said:

Gary there are a couple of swarf toolpaths in Mastercam.  If you use the Swarf on the Application page you can tell the tool to go deeper using the collision control page as shown in the screen shot below.  

Hi Chris.

Is this in 2017?  I can't see that 'window'

 

 

 

HANG ON.........   There are 2 types of SWARF now!  SWARF and SWARF MILLING!!!!! What are the differences?? And why the two types?

[Guest]

Swarf (old style that has Wear Comp capability) and Swarf Milling (new style, lots of tools that help with collision avoidance). 

99% of the time I use Swarf because my machines have 3D Tool Comp so I need wear comp as an option. 

[Gary Camp]

[Chris In-House Solutions]

Sumac Andy the screen shot you show is the newer Swarf toolpath.  Foghorn Leghorn explained what the differences are.  If you want to use the newer swarf style toolpath you will need to follow Aaron Eberhard instructions.