Have you looked at this:

https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/29343

Hi folks,

I have had the Machinery Handbook for many years now, but is there something a little less information heavy that I could give a machine operator with good machining information? (Cutting speed Info .... Drilling/Tapping Info ...thread Info etc)

A Program or Spread sheet like MiTCalc.

The guy is hungry for info, so will look at any option to keep him fed

My thoughts as well, and my next recomendation to be honest.

I think management might be afraid if destroying parts becasue of worn or broken taps though.

Hi folks,

Has anyone got any good insight on threadwhirling 17-4PH Stainless (1350).

We were machining sizes 4-40 and 6-32 with .05mm over the recomended drill size, but we still getting very sticky or tight threads with the gage.

In settings we are:

2865 RPM

180 mm/min feed

and using overcut as recomended by tooling guy of .03

Its a 2 toothed Threadwhirl, and we are cutting right hand top to bottom...so its conventional milling.

To get close to thread size we are setting our wear offset at .07, but I think its rubbing more than cutting, and hence the inconsistencies.

Would appreciate some thoughts. Thanks

ISCAR Heliturn for very fast metal removal, its a joy to see it chipping away.

Jay,

I subscribed to your website a few years back, but have since changed my email address. Is there any way of reactivating my account?

Wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to remove most of the information except for the toolpath Type and Parameters, and then have the option to make the rest of the info appear when you hover your cursor over it. It would really help when having a large amount of operations. Just a thought.

if you offset the surfaces you require, then create the stock to "all surfaces", it should expand "up " to the offset surfaces. Worth a try.

@Geardoman

Yes, I have had to do the same....looks like another Sunday down the tubes.

Cheers.

Yes, I am aware of that, thanks.

The problem is that even after I removed the Model toolpath from the Ops Mgr tree...the stock model has remained. And it stays there if I create a new Model toolpath and subsequently remove it.

In a nutshell, I always have one on screen, it will not disappear.

?

Any reason when I delete my Stock model toolpath...that the machined model does not disappear? Its obscuring my surfaces, and is actually out of date (ops have been updated).