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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter compensation and fixture offsets problem??
« on: December 03, 2008, 02:30:19 PM »
Re: Lead-ins.
AND I HOPE SOMEONE IS WRITING ALL THESE DOWN so we can hope to eventually get them all patched up..
I ran into a couple of other bugs in the wizzards when trying to make that simple program. I posted one separately in the NFS wizards page.
1. In the circular pocket wizard the description of the direction of milling is incorrect (I think also in the circle wizzard). It says CCW around the pocket is conventional milling. It should actually say climb milling.
2. The actual direction of milling produced in the resultanlt code is also backwards (i.e. you pick CCW it codes CW G2).
3. If you try to do the counter bore of a 1/2" hole to 0.58" with a 1/4" cutter. Theoretically it can be done quite easily. But the wizard creates a leadin line that crashes the cutter into the side of the hole by a whole bunch more than the conterbore can remove. (unless the toolpath is lying again). I never put it to metal.
Sage
AND I HOPE SOMEONE IS WRITING ALL THESE DOWN so we can hope to eventually get them all patched up..
I ran into a couple of other bugs in the wizzards when trying to make that simple program. I posted one separately in the NFS wizards page.
1. In the circular pocket wizard the description of the direction of milling is incorrect (I think also in the circle wizzard). It says CCW around the pocket is conventional milling. It should actually say climb milling.
2. The actual direction of milling produced in the resultanlt code is also backwards (i.e. you pick CCW it codes CW G2).
3. If you try to do the counter bore of a 1/2" hole to 0.58" with a 1/4" cutter. Theoretically it can be done quite easily. But the wizard creates a leadin line that crashes the cutter into the side of the hole by a whole bunch more than the conterbore can remove. (unless the toolpath is lying again). I never put it to metal.
Sage
