The wall ain't that high, I personally think you'll get good results (sorry James) . Again, it depends of the machine, holder, set-up and part features. High helix is good but depending on the application, it might pull too much on the material. I brought that technique on some parts we were doing (thin walls Ti) and at the begining I had a hard time convincing some people but we end up finishing parts that way. Also, I would go 1 depth otherwise your cutter will get dull on only a certain length. HTH! JS

What is the heigth of the cut and thickness of the wall? The RPM can seem right but the eed could probably be increased. I use to make some kind of parts and we were to try that type of tool (Dataflute) 1.0 dia. 10fl. Usually with this type of tool you can take 2% of the diameter (would mean 0.02) and often that can be increased. I would give it a try. We had done some test in Ti-6-4 with a 3/4 (6fl.) dia end mill 2.0 doc 0.02 axial engagement: we feeded up to 80 inches/min with good results. Remember they were tests, just to tell you that you could prolly crank it up. I think you have a very good tool because of the free cutting effect for thin walls. All that said, I have'nt seen the part and the set-up. Keep us informed. Jean-Simon

Thank you very much, really appreciated. Jean-Simon

Thanks James but I'm really looking for explanations about the M128. I'm not too bad in MC posts but for ICAM it's outsourced (and my knowleges limited). We're using Catia too and in an .aptsource, it's ZEROPT/(xvalue), (yvalue), (z value) to tell the machine the distance between the pivots to the part origin. I just don't know how to give that info in MC. I also heard about G80 but I've been told it should'nt be required with a vertical spindle (mostly used with nutating heads). Thanks! JS

Hi, is that suppose to allow to program a part with a different origin then the pivot. The machine is a Mikron with a vertical spindle with 'B' and 'C' axis. Could anyone explain how this works because we have a hard time having support for this new machine and it's a pain programming from pivots. We post thru ICAM. If we post thru MC is there a misc where we can tell the distance between pivots and origin? Thanks in advance! Jean-Simon

It's been a few years too but I'll give a try with M51 (on), M52 (off). HTH!

Flowline is a very nice toolpath but also very limited in some cases, it uses the direction (flowline) of the surfaces. For best results, I try to recreate one surface with all the surfaces otherwise you'll need to try another option as 'project blend' because in some cases you'll beat your head for nothing it won't work. HTH Jean-Simon

Is it hardened? and how deep?

The machine is a Mikron. p.s. Thanks Ashan! Simon

Could anyone please post a sample ISO program with at least a tool change so I can know what the output looks like. I'm pretty new to Heidenhain, the control is a iTNC530. If possible program would include 5 axis indexing with cycle 19. The machine is a Mikron with a B and C axis. Thanks a bunch in advance! Simon

I've been using Campost with V9 for a while and it was working well. Now working on Catia V5 with Campost and it's very powerful (we also have 6 axis millings with head changers) but very complex to finetune. They are very different then MC posts. We also have a guru here that built the posts from scratch for most of the machines and can fix or add features on request (thanks Ron). I think that's what's expensive when you don't have anyone in-house that can devellop. Sorry I can't tell for X2 since I left MC for Catia... Jean-Simon