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General Mach Discussion / Rotational milling speed?
« on: December 20, 2006, 04:22:02 PM »
Hello all!
A few months ago I bought a taig mill with a 4th axis. 4-axis milling was a little scary to me so I have spent the past few months mastering two-sided parts. I am now ready to use rotational milling. The issue I am having is that it is VERY slow to cut this way. I am cutting resin rod and its cutting through 1 degree every 10-11 seconds. I am using deskproto to generate my tool paths and all my speed settings there are the same as when I was using normal 3-axis milling.
I read here that I should set my a-axis rotation to the diameter of the part or .0001. Neither of those sped things up at all. I have tried a value in inches and mm just to make sure I wasn't crazy.
When I set my mill and mach3 up I used the settings file and imported everything into mach3 and didn't touch any settings after.
Anyone have any ideas? Are there some other settings I need to poke?
Let me also say that I am an artist. I'm not a dumb artist, but I am an artist. Most of the things I read on these forums seem to be way, WAY over my head so please excuse any vagueness or density on my part.
Thanks much!
JQ
A few months ago I bought a taig mill with a 4th axis. 4-axis milling was a little scary to me so I have spent the past few months mastering two-sided parts. I am now ready to use rotational milling. The issue I am having is that it is VERY slow to cut this way. I am cutting resin rod and its cutting through 1 degree every 10-11 seconds. I am using deskproto to generate my tool paths and all my speed settings there are the same as when I was using normal 3-axis milling.
I read here that I should set my a-axis rotation to the diameter of the part or .0001. Neither of those sped things up at all. I have tried a value in inches and mm just to make sure I wasn't crazy.
When I set my mill and mach3 up I used the settings file and imported everything into mach3 and didn't touch any settings after.
Anyone have any ideas? Are there some other settings I need to poke?
Let me also say that I am an artist. I'm not a dumb artist, but I am an artist. Most of the things I read on these forums seem to be way, WAY over my head so please excuse any vagueness or density on my part.
Thanks much!
JQ