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Take a deep breath, turn on some soothing music... Use solid carbide instead of inserts, since they tend to be sharper and induce less stress. Rough, reclamp, finish, or rough, flip, rough, flip or reclamp, finish, flip, finish. Make sure the cutter doing the finish pass is sharp and in good shape. If there's too much stress already in the stock, consider stress relieving. Edit: I just realized that could be confusing. I'll bracket it: (Rough, reclamp, finish), or (rough, flip, rough, [flip or reclamp], finish, flip, finish).

I'm looking to put together some short Post Processing online classes, to cover some subjects like Transform Program Number output, and "how to use the 'Transform Toolpath' options. This would be similar to my previous "Office Hours" sessions, which is basically "Post Processing open Q&A" with an instructor. What format sounds more appealing: Saturday morning (2 hour session - $25) Saturday afternoon (2 hour session - $25) Saturday (4 hour split session - $40) Saturday (1 hour session - $15) My goal is to try and get at least 8 students per hour to signup. I realize that might start slowly, especially considering the holidays, but ideally I'd love to turn this into a weekly session, where I can charge a low rate to each individual for training that I really enjoy doing. Kind of a "come ask your Post Processor Questions, and I'll demonstrate the answer, no holds barred".

Thanks for the input guys. We ended up flip, flop, flip.

BTW, The 'Moduleworks Adaptive' 5X path has had this option for years. Available since X6 or X7. It was just kind of hidden.

Yes and dynamic Mill you have the option to zig zag and you can override the the feed rate for the conventional cut

Yes. Zig-zag cut pattern. You reduce the "conventional feed" passes with the feed override parameter.

I have a solid, just couldn't show it. Thanks!!!

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Make a .001 Radius on the model in those 2 sharp corners and then try to go back and add the radius on that edge and you will see a huge difference. Now add the radius you are trying to make on the edge to the inside sharp corner and then add the edge radius and you see something totally different. This is the nature of solid modeling as the constraints are such that geometrically in a locked state you get predicable results. When you start thinking abstract and let the abstract be your process then you can start seeing how to model with free form shapes to achieve what you want to see and not what your getting. Don't trap yourself in the constraints of the formula, but let the ability to free form your results help you come up with the answer your looking for. I used a .25R and I then created curves on the edges of the 2 Radius edges to the sharp curves. I then drew a line from the edges of those along the angle. I now have all the edges to create a surface of the shape you are wanting. I made a net surface of that and then made a surface from the solid of the .25 along that angled surface. I can then turn off shading and see the U-V Pattern of each surface and it tells me the story mathematically of each entity. Now you have the formula for the surface you wanted all along, but this is not your typical formula this an abstract free from shape that will be what your looking for. I still have to ask the question can you even machine that free from shape? Does the part require this much work? If so and you must then you must, but if doesn't then can you just machine what you can and call it a day?

I will repeat. (Rough, reclamp, finish), or (rough, flip, rough, [flip or reclamp], finish, flip, finish).

Is display scaling on? Right click on your desktop and click Display settings; if the value under 'Change the size of text, apps, and other items' isn't 100%, try setting it to 100%.

Here is how you get sharp corners into that part. Like what was said, this is going to require a minimum of four axis. For-Ecam.mcam

In a sharp corner never going to happen. Your going to get what you get. How would you machine it? Ask yourself that question first. How will the part look when you're done machining it? Try to model to match reality and not what you see on the screen. Once you model using that as the process you will see it is much easier to make the model do what you need.

Check out the attached PDF. This is all the stuff you can control with ViewSheets. What you do with them is limited only by your imagination I use them a lot to define WCS/TP/CP, Views and drive geometry levels for complex 3+2 work Also to make different setup sheets for different operations Done properly you can switch from feature to feature on your part and from setup sheet to setup sheet at the click of a mouse One minor irritant.. When you are typing in the name of a ViewSheet, be sure to end the name with the Space key or the renaming will fail. View Sheets.pdf

could you be a little LESS specific?

I'm a big believer. I'm a fan of changing the default behavior of the 3d connexion ones to Zoom Direction - Up/Down instead of Forward/Backward. In observing a lot of people I trained, it seemed more natural. Change my mind As far as model goes, if you're just starting out and paying for your own, it's worth the money to just grab the two-button "spacemouse," to make sure you're going to use it. If it's not your credit card, I'd recommend the Pro (the model without the LCD). Perhaps others have a different opinion, but I have a few-years-old model with the LCD and I don't think it adds anything. I'm already staring at enough screens, I don't need to look down at my mouse to see another! Edit: As for Motor-Vator.. Well, some men you just can't reach

Are you using multiaxs drilling? The value of drillcyc$ gets 100 added to it when multiaxs drilling.

Well I would hold it with a thing a giggy then I would turn it to the right and remove material on one face. Then I would machine the other face and call it a day. That is about a clear as you made it. How would I make it on what piece of equipment? What is the Material and size? What are the tolerances? What is the run quantity?