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Definitely one the best places for information on programming and machining. Some very smart people on here who's knowledge far exceeds mine. They are always willing to share and help out. I am always amazed that people at my level, a machinist who has learned to program, have no idea of the mountain of information that can be found here. I am usually asked many questions about programming in Mastercam it it never ceases to amaze me how many people have failed to learn anything beyond the most very basics.
( But we don't want their heads to get to big so shhhhhh )
This made me laugh and immediately think of one instance in particular. A place I worked there was one time I walked up to a guy who had broken a tap in a hole. He told me the tap had bottomed out. He was loading in another tap and was going to run that one with no adjustment. I guess he was going to see if that one would not break when it bottomed out. Just mind boggling some times with the people that we are forced to work with.
I have been using this same for a couple of years now at 2 different shops. Works well and goes a long time with no smell. Right now a year with out pumping and cleaning. Mostly aluminum but have cut brass, copper steel and stainless with it all with no problem. Plenty of tapping with no problems.
If you don't care about seeing the actual thread in verify just call it an endmill with the correct diameter. Use your thread mill tool path as usual. The only thing you will be lacking is the thread shape in verify. It will look like a hole instead.
You can set a custom a key like P for perpendicular just like M for midpoint. Go to customize quick access tool bar and select keyboard shortcut customize tab.
Thanks. the fastest way I figured out was to create a line parallel to the angle line tangent to the circle. You can pick the edge of the circle as your offset distance no need to figure out anything. Then create a line between the two parallel lines measure and move the distance.
Thanks for the post. Always learning.
A work around is to select your arcs as John described and move them to another level. Then do create circle and lock that. Next go to auto cursor and lock that on arc center. Quickly click on any part of the circles to be changed. Once your done with that re select the original circles as before and hit delete. Could do what you want in just a couple of minutes.
Yup. I am running 2018. In X9 you do not have a freepass option so you would need to approach it the way JP said. Although I still hate the interface there are some really good additions to basic tool paths.
Ok. We are on the same page then. I use circle mill a ton. I do prefer to drill and drop straight in instead of spiral but use it either way. The roughing step over, semi finish and finish options make it a very versatile path.
Curious as to how often you guys use this path. I hardly if ever use this path. Circle mill all the time but very rarely this one. Where would you use this over circle mill path?
After getting your settings the way you want click the save button top left. It should save whatever you have set as your default settings if that's what you are looking for
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Basically in mill one you get all your wireframe programming plus some surfacing being limited to mostly being able to pick a single surface. You also get your highspeed tool paths.
In 3D you get everything else including your multi axis paths. If you are going to be doing lots of surfacing you will want 3D even if you are not doing multi axis work.
I have a job I am looking at for my boss. It has a call out on it for ........
From what I have been able to find the Rockwell b scale is for softer materials. The part is .750 square and .300 thick but has a .001 flatness call out on the bottom with a .002 parallelism to the bottom of a .656 pocket. I am wondering if I should rough, anneal and then finish machine or will it be too hard to machine after.
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