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Stock models show cubic volume, so just compare the final one to the initial.
HSM Advisor will give him MMR, which is necessary for his calculation, but it knows nothing about how much metal he started with or the cubic volume of his part.
Yeah, too large of an entry helix creates some very janky stuff at the transition between entry motion and cut motion.
From what I have seen is because it sees material on both sides of the tool, and conventional mills in the helix, and then has to reposition itself to climb mill in the actual cut motion.
Reducing the helix radius always made this go away.
The other day I couldn't figure out why my stock model operations were taking cripplingly long times to regenerate.
Turns out that someone had reset the thread limit back to 4 in the multithreading manager settings, after putting it back to 16 everything was back to normal.
Program the profile cutting to an offset contour, should achieve the same result,
Will run on a single offset, but may also be confusing for whoever is setting up the job
Yeah, the best you can do with the Engrave toolpath is use the ramp entry setting.
Honestly, I wish Engrave got reimagined as a variant of 2D Dynamic or even OptiRough instead of what appears to be a variant of Pocket.
I like the idea of the reamer.
I'm still trying to convince the powers-that-be to buy at least a couple of those micro float tension-compression holders, but they still think putting taps in standard ER collets and holders is good enough.
I have noticed a radial discrepancy of roughly .002" between a contour chained on a solid edge and a contour chained on wireframe created on that edge.
I know this has to be a chaining tolerance issue, so I'm curious where and what exactly are the settings for both of these?
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