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Lathe Custom tool question


Karl@CP PISTONS
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Hi All, I am having a brain fade as to how to set up this custom tool for our lathe. I need it to compensate for both sides of the tool to cut the radius correctly. To make it work I've made two custom tools with the tool center set for the center of each left and right radius. Then I'll do the right half of the profile with tool #1 ending at the center then  start in the center and cut the left half with tool #2. I'd like to see if I can do this with 1 toolpath / tool to minimize all the hand edits in the actual  g-code file.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Karl

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On 11/4/2019 at 1:11 PM, Karl@CP PISTONS said:

Hi All, I am having a brain fade as to how to set up this custom tool for our lathe. I need it to compensate for both sides of the tool to cut the radius correctly. To make it work I've made two custom tools with the tool center set for the center of each left and right radius. Then I'll do the right half of the profile with tool #1 ending at the center then  start in the center and cut the left half with tool #2. I'd like to see if I can do this with 1 toolpath / tool to minimize all the hand edits in the actual  g-code file.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Karl

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Seems to me you forgot tool clearances, the Tool center and radii you setup define one half of the insert, but since you say its not compensating for the other side i expect you had missed tool clearances

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