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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Rimmel on June 10, 2014, 09:18:07 AM
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The OD taper wizard seems to assume that the taper is always on the end - e.g. it overshoots on the center.
I am trying to make this shape (see pic) any ideas?
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That would have to be done in 3 operations with the wizards.
1. parallel cut to dia at top of taper
2 parallel cut to dia at start of taper
3 taper starting at end of number 2. parallel cut.
Hood
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Yes, i see that however the taper over shoots on the inner edge.
So if i want the taper to start (widest point - left to right) at 20mm and then reduce down to 10mm. I put this in the wizard and it starts the last cut at X9.77 which is less than the minimum needed. The wizard seems to ignore the X end of 10mm and goes lower to 9.77
see pic
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Looks like your only options woulld be to hand code it in that case, or use CAM. Not sure how well LazyTurn works but may be worth a look.
I use BobCAD and quite like it and in the past I used Dolphin and it was also ok.
Hood