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  1. #1
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    Apr 2006
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    Facing operation

    First off, I'm new to BOBCAD but have been machine for several years, I have a lot of experience in GIBBS-cam, and learning the features of Bobcam in the last few days has been very painfull to do very simple things.
    I have a Hass MiniMill in my garage and have been using Gibbs (from my day job) to program this machine. I want some independence from my day job so I bought BobCad for use at home.
    But anyway on to my question:

    Can anyone here explain how to get a facing operation to work correctly?
    I want to face with a 2" face mill and take .010 of the top of my stock. Bob cad is forcing a finish pass with a second (finishing)tool. I only want 1 pass with the "roughing" tool. We does it force a finish pass when it is not needed?
    Thanks Mike
    [email protected]
    www.hessemachine.com

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
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    100
    Thanks To Orizaba for answering this in the Enhancments post.
    Entering 0.000 in the finish tool Diameter took care of this issue.
    [email protected]
    www.hessemachine.com

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
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    You are welcome. I'm new to this so its good to be able to help out.
    Matt:rainfro:

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