One thing I noticed if the cutter is too wide it will not drop the Z height much , try and create a tool in madcam tool library that has a narrower cutter angle and see if that helps
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One thing I noticed if the cutter is too wide it will not drop the Z height much , try and create a tool in madcam tool library that has a narrower cutter angle and see if that helps
So it looks like from the way the cutter rapids in Z 90 to the surface your using 4 axis between curves , when I use the same set up I get below surface cutting .
But I do not see how one would...
Sorry I meant to ask which tool path your using in madcam , are you using cut between 2 curves or one of the other 3D cut along curves ?
If your using cut along curves you can enter a negative...
Go on the madcam website and email Joakim directly with your post question, I think this is above what most will be able to help you with here , I am just starting to wrap my head around post language
Which tools are you using , it seems that you have Z movement above the surface for rapids but not below the surface for cut movements ?
I do the same , with course step overs in the .1mm range to see if I get the results I want then redo with my final .02mm step.
Less now than before I got the faster computer , some of my tool...
Did you ever get an understanding of how this works?
One thing for sure you need to start with simpler forms until you understand the effects your choices of tool paths will have
Maybe try...
what is an external dll? I tried opening a few of them from the madcam file and I can not read them , at least with the software on my computer
thanks
gregore
I have continued to play with the same model changing the angle of the drive surfaces to be below machine settings , cutting waxes to test out different cutting strategies
but i have noticed an...
thank for getting back to me so quickly , I get what you are saying but i am not quite sure why Madcam using a drive surface facing the same way on the same part tries to do the complete opposite ??...
thanks for answering , for some reason madcam is still not honoring the limits set for the machine -10 and 100 degrees in both machine setting and drive surface settings even with simple flat...
I am running the first tests of the 5th axis setup and it seems madcam is not honoring the maximum tilt angles in the settings screen . I am currently get tilt angles above 200 degrees
any ideas ?
thanks for the responce , my tech friend figured out how to get madcam to out put TCP once i got him the madcam help sections on post processors
we are going to try both tcp and g93 to see which...
found it, upgraded
thanks
thank you i am happy to up grade but could not find anywhere on the site to upgrade , could you please point me to the location for it?
thanks
I am currently upgrading rhino 5 to 6 and the same with madcam
my madcam license is not working in madcam 6 for rhino 6 is there some upgrade i need to purchase from madcam 5 extra ?
so I just updated madcam and I noticed that I do not have the same screen as this post on the madcam blog, it looks like this is where i turn TCP on and off in the tool library
any one else have...
thank you very much , i did not know madcam had a blog for new releases .
so i looked it over and sent it to my tech friend who is handling this for me ( waiting for reply) , but from my...
still waiting to hear back on this issue
but now I have another issue , running a few tests to see about setting up the 5th axis the picture is a half sphere cutting in X so platter rotates and...
I just noticed on madcam website that it supports g93 moves can someone please show how to use it / turn it active . Also i need some help changing the mira A/B to an A/C trunnion table ?
marv sorry I missed your post .
In response I have found very little benefit from tilted passes in metal , though if one was needed that extra little bit it should be worth it .
As for wood now...
i found it for those of you who would be interested
https://www.ultrapolishing.com/mold-makers-resources/video-milling-finishes
Thanks
Thanks for the scaling idea , I will certainly try it
Yes decreasing step over works to a point on my machine but it seems I have reached a limit that increasing more leaves no better a result . ...
Thanks Marv.
I have never used scanned items , though I can imagine it being useful and I have thought about it , so the above info will be very useful in the future .
Almost all the work I do...
I can’t say I completely understand the problem but I think clipping planes might be worth a look . Video is on YouTube
“clipping planes” controls cutting to only between the 2 set layers or...
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I noticed that changing the cutter tolerance helped a lot , I had it at .01mm and and changed it to .0005 mm this seemed to help a lot to make the tool paths smoother .
But I still...
I seem to be either not understanding how to make the surface better through mesh settings or I have something set incorrectly you can see in the picture I have random inaccuracies along the...
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That’s got it working now, this is going to come in so handy being able to do it with a drive surface ..... I will be able to cut much finer stuff with this
Joakim , I have tried a few different things and nothing works can you be more specific about how to get this to work?
Thanks
Gregore
So I did some experiments with drive surfaces even though it seems like I can change the direction of the u&v it seems to make no difference in the start position for the planar finish passes , they...