What do you call it when the feed rate slows when the cutter enters a tight internal radius and speeds up when in the clear?? I guess the program looks ahead and sees the condition and varies the feed rate. Is there a term for this?? FeatureCam does this and I think MasterCam does this also. Is this a common feature in cadcam programs? Which programs have this ability???
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06-24-2007, 11:02 PM #1
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Mastercam calls it High Feed Machining. It works on 2d and 3d cuts. They base it on changes in direction (corners) and volume of cut (ramping down in Z during an XY move would reduce the feedrate). You do have to set some values for YOUR machine to determine how fast it can cut and still maintain accuracy.
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06-29-2007, 07:49 PM #3
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Thanks Mike, I was hoping someone would come along and know what I was referring to. I would think this would be a huge time saver.
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