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  1. #1
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    Feb 2005
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    Quick3, that is what they make a cam system for.

    If you are just trying to do a simple chamfer, its fricken easy to hand code, time comsuming, but easy.

    Increment up in Z, over in X, run a full G3(or 2 if you insist), then repeat, but increase your radius by your X stepover, pretty easy. I hand coded one 3d part, 5 seperate intersecting radiuses, it took about 2 days with CAD, it sucked, never again.

    I ran a chamfer about a month ago, 60 degree included, with a .030±.01 radius into the bore and a .06±.01 radius up onto the flat. That was ball endmill territory. If not for the radiuses, chamfer tool, zip around and done.

  2. #2
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    Feb 2008
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    Yeah, I just hand programmed it. But, it takes a lot of code, and is time consuming. I mean you could hand program a propellor blade given enough time, but yeah, thats why we use cam. I was hoping for a repeating pattern. Just use the intial increments, and angles, and tell it where to stop. A chamfer tool works as long as the chamfer is no bigger than the tool.

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