Cavity Mill Broken 1

[capnhook]

Cavity mill is broken.

I have reported that on certain cut levels, small regions are omitted, and then later are cleared at lower cut levels. This overrules any sort of use for cavity mill in a high-speed milling scenario, where you have a high-speed inserted cutter with a very short length of cut getting damaged because it has to take these intermittent thick clean-up cuts. It just takes one hit to one of these thicker regions to blow the cutter.

IR Number: 6366617
17-jun-2010 07:31:41


Yeah, cavity mill is broken, many different ways. When will it be fixed, is what I want to know. What are our maintenance dollars funding?


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[joycejo]

I have had "better" success with Cavity mill when I use the cut region. With a complex model I will create a surface region of all the faces Iwant to machine then use the surface region when selecting the cut region. This does work better to get the Auto cut level to behave.

Yes it still needs some work and the guys at NX need to wake up before Master Cam and some of the other mid range CAM systems start eating their lunch.

John Joyce
N.C. Programming Supervisor
Barnes Aerospace, Windsor CT
NX6.0.5.3