Fillet rads on toolplath

[Mike Nelson]

Help please.....

 

In need of a blend

 

Is there a way to throw fillet rads on toolpath

without fillets on levels?

[mayday]

um...

you mean cutting a fillet without the surface geometry on the model? how big a radius? internal or external?

[Mike Nelson]

External

 

Edge breaks of .01

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Hello Mike. Welcome to the forum.

 

You pretty much need to model all outside radii.

 

Inside radii are not really necessary if they are the same as the radius of the tool you're using. Out of habit though, I've always modeled them just in case I decide to change the tool to a different diameter for one reason or another.

 

HTH

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Mike, do you work for ATS???

 

It's easy to create those by create, fillet, chain and select your chain.

[Mike Nelson]

yes

[Mike Nelson]

Is this James Myette of Mori?

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Do you remember me? I Worked for Mori Seiki and came up there a few times to do software upgrades for your pallet pool.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I went back to programming a few years back. It's a little kinder to the family than traveling often.

 

Hey you have questions about your pallet pool bring them in here. I take care of an SH-8000 2 machine 24 Pallet system. Man I love cells...

[Mike Nelson]

I wondered if that was you, The piture did you no justice....

 

Do you not work for Mori?

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

You don't think that picture is spitting image???

 

Yesterday our T1 crashed so I could not finish.

 

I stopped working for Mori 5 years ago in June (I think).

 

I still have close tied to them. I'm about 2 miles from their office so if stuff goes wrong.... they get an earful, quick!

 

How is your cell running? You guys have an SH-630 cell right? 2 machines, like 12 pallets??? been a few years since I've been up your way. Our SH-500 cell runs about 155+ hours a week and our SH-8000 cell runs between 120 and 140 hours a week. We only have 2 guys on one shift taking care of the 8000 or else we'd be up there in the 150's as well.

 

Stick around in here, there's a lot of talented folks willing to share info. You guys used to use SmartCAM right?

[Mike Nelson]

We have ran Smartcam but the parent company

has made the call to go Mcam

 

SH 500's w/15 pallets

 

Under utilized for the vast machine it is

 

I need alot of help with this program so you'll

see me frequently, it is quite different from home.

 

I need faster ways of starting and printing out

doc's for the floor

 

Any help there would be helpful

 

Mike

[Steve Biehl - Cimquest Inc]

mike,

if it is Lathe programming that you are talking about, V9.1Sp2 has a 'Corner break' option in the Finish toolpath.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I've got a kick butt post for your machine. Has Tool Breakage Detection, Look Ahead/AICC/HPCC, high pressure coolant, shower coolant, eject the pallet mark it red if a broken tool is encountered, etc... Other goodies too.

 

Post, set work offsets and run. Lemme know if you need the post, of course there are no warranties, as-is, all that stuff... I do have a pretty nice Setup Sheet Word Template if you want to check it out.

 

Are you still using the MoricAC cell control software? If yo uguys are, you should consider updating to CAPS-LPS. MUCH better. More user friendly, more features, etc...

 

Later,