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CUTTER COMP IN DYNAMIC MILL


BOB D34
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You could add that capability to your post tied to a mics int/real, but IMHO, it's not worth it.  If you are going to run a regrind on a dynamic mill path you are likely best off just letting it run on center-line and add a second semi finish pass around the perimeter with comp to cleanup.  The reason for this is due to the nature of the dynamic paths being point to point or having a high likelihood of some short line to line segments which is hard for the control to calculate comp vectors to.  This will result in potentially unreliable/non-executable NC code as you change the comp value.  Just kind of the way it is.  Could this "shortcoming" be overcome with some clever "look ahead" buffering in the post.  Sure.   Are there many people up to the task, nope, probably not enough monetary need out there to make it happen. 

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Last I checked you couldn't run cutter comp using Helix bore due to not being able to start comp on a circular move on a fanuc and some other controls (pretty sure not all though).....  That said, I typically use circle mill to get around that limitation.  It would be nice if we had the ability to add a tangent or perp line on start and exit with helix bore just for cutter comp.  Of course I may be missing something here...

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57 minutes ago, mkd said:

yup.

not sure what you're trying to accomplish with the 50% thing

he is probably a control comp user, they have to do things the hard way haha, us wear comp users dont have to deal with 50% of cutter lead ins which is another reason why wear comp is the best choice but that is just my opinion and i know people have argued over comp for years 

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