Hello,
I have a serpentine pulley that I'm attempting to create on my mill (don't have a lathe) and did some test cuts with the appropriate pitched cutter and the grooves that I want to produce look decent. I began with a profile operation with the lead being circular. This allowed the cutter to come in from the side (not the top) and make a pass around with the fly cutter cutting .010. I also turned on Cutter Comp which allowed me at the machine to adjust the cutter diameter each pass around taking more until the cut was to depth.
My question: In BOBCad, how would I achieve this same affect not changing anything at the machine? For example, I make Cut 1 (tool diameter 3.0), Cut 2 (tool diameter 2.90), Cut 3 (tool diameter 2.98), Cut 4 (etc...) each of them would have to be a different tool definition in BOBCad with different tool diameter and physically at the machine??
I'm probably making this more complicated but attached is a visual of what I'm doing.
BTW, using V23.
Thanks in advance!