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I use an NC program as text file.
Store in mastercam file. It won't update of you repost it. But is immune from file path changes.
The other option. Reads file when posting so it's always up to date. Any filename or path changes will need to reselect the text file
It was a hertl brand double-ended stub. It was doing a good amount of roughing but compared to CID and imco it lasted longer. It obviously cut slower but it was a first run of a part.
I had a model where they dimensioned radii in a pocket to the center point. They have the radius at .118 with a .120 floor radius.
I couldn't use a quarter inch ball endmill because it would have changed the center point of the radius. So i had to order 6mm ball endmills
We use haimer. We have the shrink and balancer for the yasda so I guess we kept it all the same.
But no big Kaiser with them.
And I can't understand why there is no er11 for hsk30. The er25 looks ridiculous with that small taper.
We use a block with holes.
Face the 5 sides of theblock so you know the cutter height is dead on. Then machine two holes 180 degrees apart. Then check from the top face and one x face.
There are also the simultaneous ball and indicator tests
It depends on the controller and servo package. We have a feeler with an 18 control that will round corners unless you use exact stop along with aicc. The feelers with the 30 control run just fine. We even had a Makino that didn't have any sort of look ahead. We had to have the fanuc guy come down and add it.
I think all mine match those. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet.
We are not supposed to have our phones on the ship floor soni have to write it on paper first
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