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Using "Stock to Leave" instead of cutter compensation
Thought I'd share this as I just discovered it yesterday (seems like a no brainer now!). Instead of adjusting for cutter comp in your control/machine you can alternatively use the Stock to Leave function under "Passes" tab. This should give you more control of a single tool over multiple features.
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@atomkinder67 wrote:
The only time I think this would be useful would be if you are using the same tool for multiple features that aretolerancedunidirectionally in opposite directions.
I ran a machine with stock to leave only for tolerance compensation for years.
Now I use both, because just the cutter comp only on the machine won't work for milling. You need so many different tolerances with the same tool that usually it's a good habit to use the stock to leave boxes to make the toolpath mill at the middle of the tolerance you get. I mean you can't use cutter comp to mill a +/- 0.02 mm and a -0.05 - -0.10 mm tolerance so if you make sure the first tolerance has no stock to leave and the second one has -0.0375(Since usually doubled since on two sides) adjustment on the machine should be correct for both tolerances.
Laurens Wijnschenk
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We do almost none of that at my job but every once in a while the engineers try it.
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