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Yes, this was my thought, but in this case the dimensions on the setup plan will be false. It can cause collisions.
In powermill there was no fixture object at all, but I had a possibility to create a surface, covering the vise, and I can remove it after toolpath calculation. I am...
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How do You protect the vise or any other fixture? It is common, that we machine right above the jaws, with ie. 0.2mm clearance, because the minimum Z is easily be compared on the machine, but the X position of the part is not so exact, so it would be better some bigger safety distance ie...
Thanks again for Your attention and help.
Yes, similar topic, but not the same.
My question here is that if I add some of the bodies (of the prt) to the workpiece, how can I avoid during cut area selection (of ie. a floor-wall operation) so that faces of other bodies are included and get the...
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I have a first setup, operation seems good. I have loaded machine, machine components (Part, Workpiece, fixture) set correctly. Simulation works fine.
I have a second setup, same machine, different fixture. How can one store the first setup configuration, before changing the machine...
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I have a cam setup, wave linked body added to Workpiece geometry group.
There is another body extacted from the wave linked body, and some more auxiliary bodies.
How do You order Your workpieces' bodies of in the feature navigator? Groups? Layers?
I tried creating a group, with all the...
Thanks, great, i think this is what I need. The trick was that I had to raise the top level... We do very similar part sizes, the larger was 1600x800x400..but without hardening..
If I compare the original IPW (black contour), and the real hardened workpiece (the red one), it can be seen that (at least) on the top of the boss in the middle, there is more rest material than the IPW shows. If the roughing stock was 1 mm, the deformation ie. 0.5mm, there will be at least...
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After roughing, I have an IPW, where I can see the rest material. During heat treatment deformation occurs, So my IPW will not show the real state. How could I add some kind of blank stock to my IPW?
When the deformation of the part is similar to the cut depth of the rest...
Could someone please show me some examples?
I do mold inserts programming. These usually have four setups, roughing from two sides, finishing from the same two directions. There are regions, which I have to machine ready before hardening, as there are no tolerance and surface quality...
see. it is acceptable when milling low parts in 3 axis, but what if I wanted to store my tools in the database with assigned holders. What if I would like to replace actual holders occasionally?
In powermill, I could define all these tools, shank can be made of any number of cylinders and...
thanks, looks good. how would you define the tool above in the previous versions? or the next tool, where are two different cones?
it could be and endmill, or a bullnose endmill too.
not to tease, but interest me
Mold inserts usually have long coolant holes. The first step in the manufacturing is drilling these holes, before any milling job. Find feature does not know about this, and I cannot find any option to do what I need. Should I seek for some feature modifying option? Or is there any switch in...
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I have a workpiece, it contains my original part geometry, blank and fixtures. So simple.
For roughing I need another workpiece, with some additional geometry for the second setup, some patches for the holes to get some better toolpaths. There is a third workpiece for prefinishing, patches...
Hi, how should I define a simple 10mm endmill?
it has ~ 20mm flute length,
then ~ 10mm undergrinding at 9.2mm diameter
finally ~ 40mm shank.
When I try it as 70mm 'length' and 20mm 'flute length',
how is the 50mm gray part treated? Is it a shank? Or a neck?
When I set tool neck clearance 0, it...
