Hi,
I cut a small, flat part out of a 0.5" thick alum stock bar and the part came out to be more than 10% thicker than designed.
Stock - 1" x .05" 6061, actual thickness is 12.64mm
Part - 3.5mm thick, with top offset 2.54mm and bottom 6.566mm. I did all in inches because my passive probe won't work in G21. The part was designed in MM but converted to Inch.
But my part came out to be 3.87mm thick. I'm scratching my head on what could have gone wrong here. I double checked all my Z values and everything looked correct.
I did no face mill the stock as this is just a prototype, 12.64mm is actually slightly less than .5", so why my part is thicker than designed? Where should I start looking?
thanks in adv
Daz