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Hi folks,
I am not able to get a good toolpath with the
leftover strategy. Instead of a clean path, i
get a lot of spikes, which is not desirable.
I have uploaded a sample file - left.mc8 for
your reference.
Please suggest me as to what settings should be
implemented.
Thanks.
Kurt
Hmmm, well here goes:
During rest milling, i would like the cutter to do only climb milling i.e one way. As a result, the cutter takes a cut at a particular z level and then comes up to a retract level which is absolute and above the z zero.
This results into a lot of air-cutting. I could set my retract at an incremental level, but it proves to be risky, particularly when there are some islands in the job, because my machine controller does not interpolate in rapid mode.
Is there any way, by which i can reduce the air-cutting without harming the workpiece ? Is it possible to convert those rapid moves to feed moves ? In such cases a G1 move would be much safer than a G0 move, when the cutter is moving inside the job.
Kurt.
How about an option,during the roughing operation, which ensures that the tool has sufficient room to move and operate without damaging itself ?? Some kind of an area filter !
With so much of fantastic features in the new
version, I wonder what would be the 'goodies'
awaiting us in the future versions to come !!
Any 'preview', development guys ???
I am a mastercam newbie.
The Mastercam v8.0 pdf brochure mentions
about 'capture your machining knowledge'
wherein you capture/build your machining strategies and apply them to similar parts.
Could somebody explain to me, how to go about doing this, in detail?
I use v7.2b. My pencil toolpath does not give
a smooth pass. Instead it keeps on hopping
up and down. Also my leftover toolpath is also not smooth . I find some small deviations in the toolpath. What is the recommended tolerance? Anything else to be changed apart from the tolerance ?
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