Thanks very much for the videos. I find your videos easy to follow, the pace is not too fast, and I just wish other videos were like yours. You even have a great "teaching voice" that helps hold my attention, some voices just plain irritate me LOL. One thing I would have like to have seen is "completion" of these videos on manufacturing models. By that I mean what comes next to complete this part. The two videos have only shown how to machine that one face. Do we use the manufacturing model as stock for the next operations. And if so, do we then have 2 completely separate gcode files generated to machine the one part. I actually tried setting up a 2nd operation to machine a part I made, but I could not select the manufacturing model as stock, it simply would not select so don't know what I'm doing wrong. A 3rd video would be great to demonstrate this.
Thanks so much for the comment and your encouragement! Thank you too for the suggestion. For a while now I’ve wanted to do a series on the Manufacture workspace and how to complete a part from start to finish. Your comment makes me want to produce that series. Stay tuned!
Can you suggest when you know when to use a finishing tool path for the amount of material to be removed? Lets say I want to take a .080 concave from the center of the part. Is this a finishing tool path? Lets say I want to take .75 would you first rough then finish? How much material is considered to be a rough and how much is finish?
Thank you so much for inquiring! Unfortunately, that is not an easy question to answer. There are numerous and complicated factors to take into account such as material, hardness, size and quality of cutting tool, rigidity of machine and fixture, tilted vs non-titled direction of cut, angle of cut, etc, etc, etc. I don’t know if the following links will help you or not, but it is a basis for showing you how complicated things can get. www.sandvik.coromant.com/en-gb/knowledge/milling/profile-milling www.harveyperformance.com/in-the-loupe/ball-nose-milling-strategy-guide/ Don’t be scared though. Try and read through those technical documents to understand what particular machining situation you are faced with and apply the direction. Another article gives a specific job using rough, semi-finish, and finish strategies to finish a part to a very nice finish. I hope it helps: www.moldmakingtechnology.com/articles/machining-techniques-are-you-finished-yet Lastly, I hope this next article is the most useful to you. It discusses a general rule-of-thumb in how much material should be removed by a semi-finishing and finishing operation: www.secotools.com/article/118130?language=en Programming is a mix of math, science, and art. You as the programmer need to balance what kind of finish you need vs how much time you spend machining it. Part of the fun is the art of learning this stuff! You can do it, just make sure to spend the time learning and reading… there is never an easy answer for something that is so challenging, but enjoy the process, so that the time spent in learning flies by!
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