Grooving on a boss

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to program a grove on a boss so that you can make the width smaller or bigger on the lathe rather than redoing the program? My groove width is .185 plus minus .002 as the insert wears it goes down to .184 and I want to open it up by .001.

Thanks

[acad-caveman]

The best way to do it is to use tool nose comp and use two offsets for the grooving tool.

One for the font side, a second for the back side.

Now if FC is capable of that, I do not know, but I always program grooves ( face or OD/ID ) that way by hand.

[abhishek.juvekar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Thanks for posting on Autodesk Forum.

As far as I understand it requires Tool nose radius compensation (TNR) to apply for a grooving tool. Unfortunately there is no option to set TNR for grooving tool or in a groove strategy. 

This has been requested to the development team via a feature request "Turn: desire G41- G42 to show up in nc code if we turn with a grooving insert".

Thank You.

[Anonymous]

Thanks

[Anonymous]

That would be nice if they would do that. A very helpful tool!!