The holes I'm having problems with are 1/8 diameter and 3/32 diameter. Ill try the Bad Point drills and feed it faster. The sheet is only 4mm, so it should ok. As far as cutting it with endmills I haven't got there yet, but I was planning for diamond cut endmills like THeByte said. This is for a project of my own that I'm working on on weekends and after hours, so its slow going. I appreciate all the help.

At first I drilled it with cobalt drills, knowing that it wasn't ideal, but it was a prototype made in quickly. Then I bought carbide drills, but still having the same problem. The problem Im having is the hole delaminating slightly when the drill comes out of the other side of the sheet.

Thanks everyone for all the help with this job. It was a lot easier to machine D2 than I thought it would be. I ended up using cobalt drills and they worked just fine, it wasn't a lot of holes. One thing I did notice is that it cuts really nice, but taking skim cuts to bring in the tolerance(+-.0005 engineer was being and AH) it does wear out the tool more than other materials. One more material I have experience with.

Get a new plater

Thread milling

Its your lead when it goes into the recess, make the lead in straight. -

Im mostly going to be turning it, plus some drilling and reaming. Ill be careful with the work hardening. Thanks everyone!

I have to make some dies out of D2, and surprisingly, I have never machined it before. What should I expect? What other material machines similar? Thanks in advance

I've used filters for ever. Generally I don't have the faceting problem, the main reason I use it is to make the programs smaller and because it gives smoother tool motion. I see here that everyone seems to have One Way Filtering off, I've always had it on, without really know what it changes, or why it should be on/off. Anybody know what that setting does different?

I just restart the PC when that happens

holy S!

The only WCS that you need to use for lathe is Top, all the other ones make a mess. So, you set the model the way the part is going to sit on the chuck, create another level, and then do a Turn Profile. That's all you need. The only WCS that you need to use for lathe is Top, all the other ones make a mess. So, you set the model the way the part is going to sit on the chuck, create another level, and then do a Turn Profile. That's all you need.

Post a screen grab of your top view and your planes manager.

When programing a 2x lathe you always want the part on the Top plane, with the center sitting on X0 Y0 and the end on Z0(preferably). If you need to program the back side there a command for that(stock flip). Also, if you're programing a lathe with a bottom turret you need to configure the tools for that as well. The default Fanuc post will work with a bottom turret lathe, its what we have at work, just need to configure the tools. THE G28 problem... Yeah, I just edit out the G28 and add exit moves(G00 X6., G00Z6.) Something else to consider, always, always, and I mean ALWAYS set up your stock on Lathe, otherwise you WILL crash, specially drills and boring bars.(ask me how I know) I'm not understanding what problem you're having though. Its not that difficult once you wrap your head around it

For that, I would use Contour with a taper.

Didn't think of that... It wont let me post more than 1.33mb, so I dont know how to post the file. What I did was a Surface rough pocket and surface countour. It looks great. I didnt use your 3/16 tool. I used a 5/32

Can you post the whole model?

Id go with Hybrid or Scallop.

Have you tried Project?

I'd a surface rough pocket, Im not sure how wide it is, but it looks like you can use a 1/8 endmill

Lay it on the side and cut it from the top. Looks like you have a bunch of other features that should be done on a 4th axis...

What Ron said. About revolve, I don't really use it a lot either, but I was trying to give him another option. I feel like there's a lot of newer programmers that don't know about the original TPs, and they are still very useful. Everyone wants to use surfaces.

2D swept or revolve produces very clean motion, one of the reasons I use it. A programmer needs to have a "bag of tricks", you dont want to be stuck on 2 or 3 TPs.

I tried that, didnt work. It cuts it straight...

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