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Yeah I agree, I should have it on center...I was using that diameter as Z zero because it was a finished feature and something to pick up on but I hear what your saying. Thanks for your help!
Thank you...I grew up in Sodus but im working on emerson in Gates. Im 29...been doing this since they gave me working papers and ive never seen a shortage of mfg jobs but i agree it is shrinking steadily.
Thanks for the help and good luck to you sir
At this point Im open to do it any way that makes the most sense.
Is this a tough part to attempt? Im proficient in most 2D tool paths and have swept and minimal single surfacing paths
Can someone point me in the right direction with this file?
Im trying to learn how to surface and im not sure what path to choose....I was hoping to do this on the 4th
The portion Im attempting is the horn shape only.
Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated...even if its just telling me where in the help menu to look. not looking for someone to just do it for me. i really want to learn this.
POST OP 3 4TH.MCX-6
create a point at your radius,
translate that point 1degree, 359 times...make sure you copy-not move
connect each point using the spline function
break the spline at the three o'clock position so you have a start and stop point.
this should work for you. good luck
maybe it is working correctly. however...the part geometry is still rotating aroung the same point. some how it picks a number and put it in the origin box within the view manger.....my question is where is this number coming from. traditionally when i rotate, using the rotate WCS and give it the angle, with no change made to the origin. rotating by solid face and geometry is relativley new to me so pardon me for being ignorant. just trying to understand what im doing better
Lower right hand part of screen, little box says WCS
click that scroll up to view manager
in that box origin is on the lower right... all of my program comes from 0,0,0 xyz however when i did the rotations using the WCS by geometry and WCS by solid face, it changed the origin numbers without me knowing....
its on a haas but i dont think it has anything to do with that
when i rotated the wcs it changed the origin x,y, z, for each wcs i used in the manager.
code looked as expected from the above results....
i fixed the problem, im just wondering why it did that
So i started dabbling with this rotating WCS by solid face/geometry
I verified the progam first everything looked swell...not so much in the machine.
for some reason, all of the origins had changed in the view manager. why did this happen?
im running three operations for my part in the machine, top side in one vice, bottom of part is second vice, then drilling all the cross holes on the indexer for a complete part....
Now if i want to post out and have my second program all on G55 where can i change this....and is it the same for g56 ect.....
Thank you in advance,
we've got a couple vf2s here that i keep raggin the boys to give me or trade me...my spindle is 7000 max, and i tried 200ipm once on accident probalby 4 yrs ago when i didnt have a clue(not that i do now) and it turned an arc in a 45dg angle...it didnt know wtf was going on. ill try it again tho.
"...AUSTRIA?!? welll then...gooday mate...lets put another shriiimp on tha bahbee"
so would you suggest 300 ipm when i get into cutting these paths in aluminum? Ive been toying with these paths for a few years, but never at these speeds. generally use standard feeds and speeds at heavier DOC
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