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Polygon turning/ Milling Mazak t plus

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:31:36 GMT

IS there a polygon turning option in HSM Inventor?

I am looking to run a part which I an use the polygon turning mode on a MAzak SQT18 with T-Plus control.

I would like to run the polygon milling mode to cut a hex. IS this possible in HSM?

Re: Polygon turning/ Milling Mazak t plus

Laurens-3DTechDraw — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 07:14:08 GMT

Simple answer is no.

I'm not aware of any CAM system actually doing this.(They might be, but I've not seen anything about it yet.)

Re: Polygon turning/ Milling Mazak t plus

Rob_Lockwood — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:18:44 GMT

What i've seen done, in NX, but it's probably common elsewhere too. is making a normal to centerline 4-axis milling toolpath using a similar cross sectioned tool, and transforming that toolpath for turning. I don't think HSMWorks has the tools available to pull this off, even in a fairly hacked together manner.

Re: Polygon turning/ Milling Mazak t plus

Laurens-3DTechDraw — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 08:08:25 GMT

@Rob_Lockwood wrote:

What i've seen done, in NX, but it's probably common elsewhere too. is making a normal to centerline 4-axis milling toolpath using a similar cross sectioned tool, and transforming that toolpath for turning.

But even that is kind of a hack right?

Re: Polygon turning/ Milling Mazak t plus

Rob_Lockwood — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:50:50 GMT

@Laurens-3DTechDraw wrote:

@Rob_Lockwood wrote:

What i've seen done, in NX, but it's probably common elsewhere too. is making a normal to centerline 4-axis milling toolpath using a similar cross sectioned tool, and transforming that toolpath for turning.

But even that is kind of a hack right?

Yep! That was essentially my point; even where it does exist, its pretty cobbled together. There might be some places where it's implemented better, but it's such a fringe use case operation that I'd bet it's usually less resource intensive to just solve on a per-application basis.