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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Riley on April 13, 2011, 10:40:44 PM

Title: NPT Thread milling
Post by: Riley on April 13, 2011, 10:40:44 PM

OK....So how do I go about thread milling NPT? I did find a macro but it didn't run correctly, but I am new to this, could have been me. Have used the thread milling wizard with great results but have the need to run NPT threads quite often.

Title: Re: NPT Thread milling
Post by: Hood on April 14, 2011, 03:18:24 AM

 dont think the wizards can handle tapered threads so your best option would be CAM.
Hood

Title: Re: NPT Thread milling
Post by: Speedtwin69 on April 14, 2011, 08:53:09 PM

The wizard will work if you have a NPT thread mill.

Title: Re: NPT Thread milling
Post by: Riley on April 14, 2011, 09:24:00 PM

Thats a good point.....I will check into that.

Title: Re: NPT Thread milling
Post by: BR549 on April 14, 2011, 09:34:25 PM

IF you  look on the manf sites for thread mills most have a wizard that can produce the threadmill code for both single point and multi point setups.

Also I think there is a programable macro in the mach tool box section for TMilling npt threads inside and outside.

Also I believe SheetCam has a threadmill modual as well, not sure if it does npt

(;-) TP