Which 3D strategy for milling this?

[m.van.hameren]

I've got this part pretty ready sofar, but I want to mill the highlighted area's with a 16mm ballmill. Can't find the proper strategy however. Please help, thanx in advance.

Mark.

[ArjanDijk]

Scallop and flow will both work. Flow depending on the surface quality. There was a video about machining a radius from autodesk.

[m.van.hameren]

Can't get the right area's selected sofar.

Thanx for answering btw.

[ArjanDijk]

Scallop with .2 stepover

[m.van.hameren]

Thanks for answering again, Can it be done in this position too? I want to drill the 4 hole's and mill the 2 bigger holes in one operation??.

[ArjanDijk]

You can, but you need a much longer tool and you will get vibrations in your material. The yellow marked pocket is from the same setup that I used.

[LibertyMachine · Accepted solution]

I was not able to get a clean toolpath out of Scallop, and I truthfully don't have enough practical experience with Pencil to do this justice. However, I DO know of a way where we can quickly accomplish one nice toolpath to clean things up:

[ArjanDijk]

Nice one, surface edit is a bit of work(and knowledge) but a nice way to handle this

[Marco.Takx · Accepted solution]

Hi @m.van.hameren,

The trick of @LibertyMachine is the best in my opinion.

But I always like to test if there are more options.

When you use the Beta mode for CAM you have the option for using the Blend operation.

This one is not as nice as @LibertyMachine but it creates almost the same toolpath.

The file is in the attachment.

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[m.van.hameren]

This was not quite what I meant, but thanx for the input!

Any handouts are welcome!!

[m.van.hameren]

Thank you very much for this solution! Great!!