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Triple Square Modified 10° thread
Reko replied to gcode's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
Emuge make pretty good inserted thread mills for the really big stuff. http://www.emuge.com/thread-mills/GIGANT-IC -
Triple Square Modified 10° thread
Reko replied to gcode's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
2.25 / 3 = .75 If you ask me, most people use the term pitch when they should be using lead. The lead is 2.25... that is what you program for a single lead... that doesn't change for this thread either... you will still program that in 3 different positions... all .75 apart... that gets you the triple lead thread. -
Knowing Rick, he's prolly the one that converted them for him... for free, Lol
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Using a mill as a lathe
Reko replied to Matthew Hajicek - Singularity's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
I have relieved a few toolholders and specialized holders over the years, but I have never thought of doing a whole job like that, Lol... pretty cool. -
Thanks Gunther... these set up sheet really make my job easier
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I do know this... do not tighten up your "Path Tolerance" or "Tool Shape Tolerance" in your Stock Models... leave them tolerances alone, or even open them up a few thou. When I first started using Stock Model, I thought a tighter tolerance would give me more accurate models, but it just slowwwwed everything down a lot. Really, I use the stock model for is verification or rest roughing, so over-accurate stock model's really aren't necessary.
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Known issue... should be fixed in MC2017 The work around is to hit the escape button after each dimension.
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Did you change your resolution? Mine is set to 1920 x 1080
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No, I think that just rounds to the nearest least input increment... mine is set to that as well... no problems here.
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It's in your Control Definition under Arcs... I set mine to Break at Quadrants
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The he||? who resurrected Euclid ^^^^ here? I thought I could just right-click in a box and the menu would extract those numbers for me
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File/Migration Wizard
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My last job, I had a 5 axis job with about 200 holes on several different compound angles in a transmission part... uhm, for me, creating planes was out of the question there, Lol I still think they should add a 5-axis helix option, like the 2D "Helix Bore" under "Circle Paths"... but the helix that justchips showed above, that isn't bad and is definitely better than a straight plunge into the work.
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Safety Move Before B Rotation
Reko replied to MachiningPartner's topic in Post Processor Development Forum
Oh, and you can also use multi-axis curve if you draw in the geometry of the path you want it to follow around the part. -
Safety Move Before B Rotation
Reko replied to MachiningPartner's topic in Post Processor Development Forum
Welcome to the forum. Not sure what machine you are using, but it can be accomplished many ways. - Force a toolchange between ops - Use a toolpath/point between ops - If using multi-axis toolpath... there is multi-axis link - Some posts use Misc Values to set a retract in Z, Z then XY or none -
This is a long shot, but one time I had a USB port go bad... couldn't figure out why my Space Pilot didn't work... plugged it into a different USB port... worked fine.
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Nice... never tried that... works great. Thank you
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+1 on helix holes for 5 axis
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Yes, I agree, me too. The solution is to put .00001 in either the X Y or Z origin for the copied plane. 10 millionths won't affect the code output, but it solves the linking problem because it becomes unique from the plane it was copied from.
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In the copied plane, put a small value in the Z zero like .00001 It won't change any outputs, but it will make it unique.
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If you use COR and Top/Top/Top, and all sides of this part are the same, you can simply program the one side and use Toolpath/Transform to rotate the toolpath around the COR using the left plane as your rotation plane. There is a setting in there to number your new work offsets incrementally at each new angle. Otherwise, you will need to draw the geometry in its proper relation to your COR and make a new plane for each rotation calling out a different offset number for each individual plane.
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Be careful... you have Y.050 in that plane as well... just make sure that's what you want. Also, it really doesn't matter if you use inc or abs... really preference. My preference is to use inc as much as I can... that way if I need to move something later, my linking settings will move with my geometry.
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Looks right to me... Z-.0172 and Z-.0155 deep is from the top of the plane you have set 3" above centerline... right? (SPOT .128 HOLES) T15 M6 G0 G90 X.718 Y2.974 A0. S1059 M3 G43 H15 Z5.1188 M8 Z.1 G99 G82 Z-.0172 R.1 P.2 F5.3 Y2.259 Y1.746 Y.631 Y.311 Y-.804 Y-1.564 Y-2.679 G80 Z5.1188 (SPOT 2-56 STI HOLES) X.25 Y3.38 Z5. G98 G82 Z-.0155 R.1 P.2 F5.3 X1.01 X.25 Y-3.38 X1.01 G80 M5 G91 G28 Z0. M9 G28 X0. Y0. A0. M30 %
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Manually drag them almost closed... but leave one dot showing in the column.
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So, if you use Surface High Speed/Opti then it will automatically select inside or outside for you... but if you use Surface High Speed Area, then under Toolpath Type, on the right side underneath Containment Boundary, you must choose, the "From Outside" checkbox.
