Originally Posted by
jnack95
Yea, it's just cheap steel and a bit gummy, but it's all I can get locally and the shipping charges for ordering small amounts of steel make it too expensive for me. Seems that the slot is slightly larger than the tool and if I select conventional milling in sprutcam it seems to help. When it cuts the first pass it seems to push up a bit of a burr on the side of the tool that would be climb cutting while the side of the tool that would be conventional milling is much less. If I make sure that the side with the burr is removed during the other pass, the problem seems to be less worse.....maybe. Im still trying to figure out what the z-cleanup options in Sprutcam are for (but I've only spent 10 minutes trying to figure it out too). Also wondering if there is any appreciable difference to using the Waterline vs Pocketing roughing program for cutting a slot (or any pocket for that matter). They seem to do the exact same thing and I never use Pocketing. As far as I can tell, the only difference is that using pocketing doesn't allow you to easily break the depth up into number of passes. Anybody know why I should use Pocket roughing?