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CuttingEdgeManufacturing
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tapping with f360

Hello all,

 

i have always had an issue tapping with fusion. most likely im not using the dwell feature properly, or this could possibly be a post processor issue, not to sure yet.

 

basically any and every time i try to tap a hole with f360 it taps perfectly until it gets to the bottom of the hole.. 

from what i can tell the dwell and spindle rotation don't seem to be sync'd. it would appear that the spindle stops for the dwell, but starts its exit in z axis before it ever reverses. meaning that during the dwell period it actually only stops the spindle rotation not the z axis. amazingly enough i have probably tapped 50 holes or so this way and never even broke a tap. i've actually had taps come out of the holders and stay in the part, but haven't broken a tap. 

 

usually i just skip the tapping anymore and do them at a manual mill(not much production work here luckily).

 

does anyone have a solution to this? im pretty positive im just not checking a box or turning a feature on, but i could be wrong.

Well, what is the post processor being used and what is the controller? Are you giving it the right codes for tapping?


Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing

either the haas pre ngc or the milltronics generic post. i haven't got tapping to work in any machine.

 

i mean cycle settings for tapping operations on fusion only asks what kind of tapping you will be doing and a dwell.  i don't see how i can screw this up lol.

Tapping has always worked for me.  Are you sure your controller has rigid tapping?

 

Using drill->right tapping.

yes. we tap all day programming from the machine (rigid tapping) just not with fusion.

Can you post a file, as well as your post output for a hole?

 

Here is a working rigid tap of mine for a npt

 

G0 Z1.7625
G98 G84 X-2.0101 Y0.4838 Z0.375 R1.7 F35.7143
G80
G0 Z2.1625