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Hi,
In lathe roughing cycle there is option for maximum cutting depth and it works fine, but how to set up minimum cutting depth?
For example today I got roughing toolpath with few 2mm cuts per side, but the last one is only 0.354mm. Thats too low for breaking chip and big waste of time.
How to deal with it?
Depends on what you have set for a finish pass and how you worked out the DOC for the amount you need to rough out.
An example would be a 50mm bar to turn down to 35mm, that is 7.5mm on the Radius so a reasonable DOC would be around your 2mm value. So, say we divide the 7.5mm x 4 which gives us a DOC of 1.875mm which is fine if you are not wanting a finish pass.
However if we put in a finish pass that alters the last 2 roughing passes so if you want a decent DOC at this point then set a decent amount for the finishing pass, in our example above if we input a finish pass of say 1mm then the last 2 roughing passes will be reduced by half the finish pass amount so the 1.875mm DOC will become 1.375mm on the last 2 rough passes to leave you the 1mm for a finish pass.
Some folks will just use the diameter with a finish allowance and divide that equally for example instead of setting a finish pass we could just divide the 7mm x 4 which now gives us a DOC of 1.75mm and there will still be 1mm left for a finish pass.
There are many ways to adress this, just need to do a little math to get the desired DOC instead of just going for an arbitrary DOC that is good for the tool and chipping and ending up with a small last pass as you have.
Sort of adresses what your issue is, hope it is of some help, I am not the worlds best with the Turning side of Fusion as most of the time I am just changing numbers in Fanuc Canned Cycles that I have in the Lathe memory, old school, way faster and easier than using Cad-CAM software for a lot of jobs 🙂 🙂
@VicKosta will probably give you a much better answer on this!!
Regards
Rob
We're currently actively working on implementing even depths of cut for profile roughing which should fix your issue once it's released.
Regards,
Akash Kamoolkar
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