PLASTIC MOULD FEEDER

[coryharris323]

Can anyone show me how to get fusion to machine these 8 tapered extruder feeders as I  can only seem to get it to machine them parallel or tow one depth and I am trying to avoid multiple tools and stop start marks as this needs to be a smooth finish 

cheers 

Cory

[a.laasW8M6T]

What sort of machine is this to be machined on?

4 or 5 axis?

[coryharris323]

4th was the plan but we do have a trunion for our haas vf4 I'd prefer to do it 4th if I can

[a.laasW8M6T · Accepted solution]

Ok, 4 axis limits your options to Flow with 4 axis limit turned on

Its not the greatest toolpath but in this case it works quite decent as the UV vectors of the tapered grooves are along the groove, often they arent and Flow wont work well.

see attatched.

If you have any more questions let me know 👍

FYI there are better 4 axis toolpaths coming(soonish, no confirmed dates) which should handle stuff like this much better

[coryharris323]

how do I set the limits to make this work as I have set used your set up set how id do it in our haas vf 4 and when i try and post it it says direction not supported. as i wanted to read the code to see if it was heading in the right direction 

[a.laasW8M6T]

You normally get that error if you have set one of your axes incorrectly.

i would check the setup:

They way i had it works fine on my machine:

[coryharris323]

yea I changed the tool set axes to match my machine but if it works in your machine i will try it that way 

cheers