[juxtoposed]

Trying to learn something new at work, any way, just go with me on this.

Looking at one of these removable five axis heads and wondering about tool paths. Say I have a part that has some undercut areas that three axis machining wont clean out and some deep vertical walls like 5" tall and a part number that needs to be engraved on one of the vertical walls.

Alright so I opti rough it in 3 axis, finish what I can with parallel, waterline etc. I get all that, now I bolt on the head and go to finish the undercut area. it has too much material to just finish it so it needs roughed first, what tool path do I use? And for the finish of the undercut? Then since the walls are 5" tall and there is a .030 radius where it meets the floor I need to do a "finish leftover" path in five axis, what tool path to use here. Finally the engraving on the vertical wall what path here?

Just trying to get my head wrapped around all this. There are alot of multi axis tool paths so I figured I would start with what I could compare to 3 axis first on the path of 5 axis learning.

thanks

[juxtoposed]

Tilted work plane and 3 axis tool paths is the answer for most of this. Thanks Mike Mattera. Your training videos are the best.

Thanks