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also...im not sure my machine can handle backfed that fast...it starts to wash out after 100ipm....1996 haas vf1. i gotta kill this machine and maybe they give me something better...but its far better than the bridgeport i use to make tooling on!
i saw the zig zag in a video this guy showed me last night(solidworkscam guy from practical machinist forum) and HSM advisor is a chip thinning calc that i guy i met on that same forum developed and sent me.
I realize the zig zag is pretty awful, but man it sure was cool!
Total depth was 1.125 and i dont think we have anything in .500" dia that would cut that deep one pass...but maybe...
Step over was .035 per pass and chips were purple like u say...next video i give you a shout out too. hope your not mad bro...but we just met ya know?
GO READ THE COMMENTS..I PLUGGED YA
Im glad i have a result, but im still not sure how i got there...why does it need an avoidance boundry when i gave it an entry point? seems like if you give it an entry point that it would start outside your stock reguardless of the avoidance boundry. So i guess i still have some questions as to why, but you definitly got me there JP
Im trying to cut a portion from a block, picture a square split into 4 quadrants, and im try to only mill the upper right quadrant out. what is the proper Dynamic milling function, and entry method. I want to engage from the outside right corner, taking a few air cuts as possible. I can send mcx file to you if youd like to help. Thank you in advance...im having a f of a time
EMASTERCAMHELP.MCX-6
is there anyway to renumber all of the tools your using after your done with a program without going into each tool and manually doing it. Sometimes ill create tools then change the order i use them, and id like to find an easier way of numbering the chronologically in order so the tool sheet read 1,2,3,4,5 rather than 1,5,4,2,3
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