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engineguy
in reply to: paramax55

@paramax55 

 

One of the reasons it is being so difficult is that you don`t have the Model correctly orientated, a tip, if you are going to machine something on a 3 Axis machine like yours then you should set it up with the Z axis pointing upwards towards the spindle, you have the Y axis "up" and the Model turned around somehow, just make life more difficult than it needs to be !!!

I have only given you some ideas for toolpathing, I am not here to do your "workflow" for you, the best I can do with the time that I have available is try and point you in the direction you need to go :slightly_smiling_face: :slightly_smiling_face:

No, you don`t need to cut the full model out but you need to clear material away in order to get to each Operation without plunging small tools deep into the stock, see the image below for a way of clearing just some stock away, I made the stock 4x5.0.5, I have no idea what size stock you actually have so just a representation along with the fixture blocks :slightly_smiling_face: I just did a small sketch to use as the machining boundary, you can make one any size/shape you like, the one I did is just to show what can be done !!

To do something similar you would need to very carefully go through all the settings for every operation and set all the feeds/speeds/stepovers/stepdowns/leads in/out etc, etc , etc, maybe change to different operations

yoke-rough ideas-4.jpg