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Anonymous
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Can't Conventional Mill Helix In

Hey everyone,

 

I am in an odd standstill, if I have climb milling selected the ramp generates fine but the moment I select conventional milling it reverts back to plunge. This seems silly that I cant do this, is there an option I am missing?

 

Cheers

Marco.Takx
in reply to: Anonymous

Hi @Anonymous,

 

I see the issue you are talking about.

But in my opinion, you can plunge from outside into the depth you like to cut and start the operation.

I there a reasonable way you don't cut the outside geometry first and then plunge into depth for this operation.

 

Also, the Helix method is always Climp. I haven't seen a situation you like to want that!!

 

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Marco Takx
CAM Programmer & CAM Consultant



Anonymous
in reply to: Marco.Takx

Well in this case, plunging would have been fine since I was cutting acrylic. However, if I would have been cutting aluminum then no, I wouldn't plunge since it would be more wear on the cutter assuming I had an center cutting endmill. The other way being to setup a different op to drill a pocket for the plunging location but again that would be another step that I could simply avoid if I could helix in. So I am not sure how your option got selected for the solution but the solution I came up with was to create an extended patch of that ledge I was milling down to. That gave it more room for a conventional helix mill in and It worked for some reason. That process added about 5 min more to my machine time but by contrast the plunging as you suggested would have added at least 15min do to the tool change. Thanks for your input however, Cheers

Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Actually, upon reading your solution I realize that I miss interpreted it. I assumed you meant for me to plunge into where I was trying to helix in not actually outside the stock setup. However, my bigger problem is the CNC machine I have which the company purposely tried to make it proprietary by inverting the machine y axis. So everything I do is essentially upside down or mirrored rather. So my NEED to figure out how to conventional mill is exactly that...a need so I can actually climb mill. If I couldn't figure it out then the acrylic I was cutting would have been chipping out like crazy. So again, I appreciate your input and didn't mean to sound harsh as I did miss understand, but I still did need to specifically figure out the conventional milling part.

 

Cheers

LibertyMachine
in reply to: Anonymous

Reverse the Y to make it proprietary?! What sort of dang fool company would do a thing like that? No serious, what make is it?


Seth Madore
Owner, Liberty Machine, Inc.
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Anonymous
in reply to: LibertyMachine

Vision Engravers, and the only reason we got it at work was because we needed to do ADA signage and they actually have a decent integrated software section that calculates all the ADA heights and what not. However, the rest of the software is archaic at best, but basically only designed for simple 2.5 D milling. So the proprietary part is that the physical axis is reversed and the software, Vision Pro, has it reversed when your designing to match IE going down from home position is + and going up is -. F360 is absolutely fantastic but It drives me nuts that everything I design ether has to be some kind of symmetrical part or designed upside down for milling. Seth I think you actually commented on my very first forum post when I was asking how to flip the Y and keep the X and Z the same.

 

Cheers