Re: Most efficient strategy for milling many small features?
I'll have to draw up some sample non-commercial parts to post. But...
I do have these defined as 3D solids in Rhino and I import the Rhino (3DM) file. That all works fine. I use 2 axis mill features for these as I have found that to be a lot faster. I use a pocket (inside to perimeter) as the roughing pass just to make sure the little cutout pieces don't cause problems. I learned this the hard way - these are cut with a 1/8" end mill and I broke a few of them when the little cutout parts stayed in the holes and bound the cutter. Once the "pocket" is cut, a profile pass at full depth does the finishing cut. I do need a finishing cut for both fit and finish.
Part of my challenge is not knowing what the heck all of those milling strategies mean. I can't find any definition/documentation for them. And when I did try to use Advanced Rough, once I configured it - probably incorrectly - the path was not actually created. I went back and tried a few other options but could never get it to generated code to create one of the pockets.
Give me 5 minutes and I'll have a simpler example to post.
Reelsmith, Angling Historian, and Author of "The Reelsmith's Primer"
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