Hi Les,
Working on a program and will be doing a slot in an aluminum bar. Wanted to rough the slot by inside profiling leaving .015” stock and ramp feeding to the depth (.498”) of the pocket. I set ramp angle at 1º and it moves roughly .100” deep in each direction, so by the time I make a complete pass I will be trying to cut about .200”, seems a bit hefty for the end mill. So I tried changing my ramp angle to .5º and do a test run and it wipes out the ramp and plunges to the full depth at the beginning…. I even tried using 1/2 (as in half a degree) and it converts the field to .5º, but again, no ramp.
Is this a bug? I suppose I can just cut and paste the path code and change the z depth to whatever will work with the end mill per revolution, but that seems a bit tedious.
I uploaded a support file for you to look at…. it’s called “Glass bracket small hole"
Brian Lamb
blamb11@cox.net (blamb11@cox.net)
www.lambtoolworks.com
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The ramp angle is limited to about 1 degree. You would probably be better off using an angle of around 15 degrees and a depth per pass of 0.1" (or whatever maximum depth of cut you want to use). The cutter would ramp down to 0.1" for the first pass then ramp down a further 0.1" for the next pass and so on.
Les
On 25/05/2015 18:58, Brian Lamb blamb11@cox.net (blamb11@cox.net) [sheetcam] wrote:
Hi Les,
Working on a program and will be doing a slot in an aluminum bar. Wanted to rough the slot by inside profiling leaving .015” stock and ramp feeding to the depth (.498”) of the pocket. I set ramp angle at 1º and it moves roughly .100” deep in each direction, so by the time I make a complete pass I will be trying to cut about .200”, seems a bit hefty for the end mill. So I tried changing my ramp angle to .5º and do a test run and it wipes out the ramp and plunges to the full depth at the beginning…. I even tried using 1/2 (as in half a degree) and it converts the field to .5º, but again, no ramp.
Is this a bug? I suppose I can just cut and paste the path code and change the z depth to whatever will work with the end mill per revolution, but that seems a bit tedious.
I uploaded a support file for you to look at…. it’s called “Glass bracket small hole"
Brian Lamb
blamb11@cox.net > (> blamb11@cox.net> )
www.lambtoolworks.com
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Any chance of having a setting for ramp length as a multiple of tool diameters?