Hey guys, I was looking for some help on what the quickest way to cut this bracket is. I was machining two of these out of roughly 4.5 x 2 x 1.2 block just being held in by tabs but the cycle time was just too much at 4 hours. Does anyone have any advice in the quickest way to machine this? The machine is a Haas TM-3 with max speed of 4K RPM and 200 IPM. I thought about trying HSM techniques on it, or milling one half and then flipping it and machining the other half but the simulation times didn't seem to compare well to machining two of them tabbed in a block.
Anyone got any ideas?