[deadlykitten]

hello recently, i tried to mill a hexagon, i was in rush, and later i realized that i did a mistake

it was not my 1st hexagon, but truth is that each time when i needed to craft one, i was coding it in a different manner

so i decided to avoid future mistakes, by creating a soubroutine for miling hexagons

so please, if you have any sugestions, any particular cases, any ideas related to hexagons ( or about creating soubroutines ), i would like to hear them, to implement them inside the code / kindly

[rdnck68]

I always use the g101 i believe... turn od down to the corner to corner dimensions of your flat first i actually turn down below the corner to corner just to be safe but only around .02" or .5mm max.

Make sure you have your tool data correct for you endmill as far as the cutter comps and tool tip direction i use tip 9 for live live facing tools. Rapid above the diameter of your turned diameter and desired depth in z... follw this with a g01 g41 x(corner to corner) z same as above and c0. Then use g101 code format in manual.

I dont have a working sample as i am home but i can give you a brief and rough lines of code for how i use g101. I can give you working code for what your needing tomorrow morning central time.

Dimensions in inches.

N0707 (1.75 hex)
T070707 (.500 4FLUTE)
M5
M110
SB=3000 M13
G17
G94
G0 X3.5 Z-.625
G01 G41 X2.020 Z-.625 C0. F50.
G101 C60. F10.
C120.
C180.
C240.
C300.
C0.
G0 X3.5
G0 G40 X100. Z100.
M12
M109
M1


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[deadlykitten]

thank you

[rdnck68]

Were you able to use and figure out the hex milling?

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[deadlykitten]

hy rdnck, yes, i have done a few things about hexxing, now i am into others

thank you for your reply

[deadlykitten]

hy rdnck68, i was thinking about asking you something ... the size of the code that you shared is 213bytes; the code that i have written is 100 times bigger

please, what do you think ? kindly

[rdnck68]

Hahaha i dont have time to write complete "do all"routines i just keep it simple

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