06-30-2013, 02:32 PM
Here's a new video from today. I had gone back last evening to deliver meals and hung around until after 10:00 trying the pocketing cycle. My first attempt resulted in a decent looking pocket, but it on the last pass at the center it left a piece standing.
Today I went back to see if I could do better. I made a change in the parameter of the cycle that simply offers "CCW" versus "CW". It didn't seem to make the cutter climb mill or not by changing, but did change the size of the pocket significantly. By changing from the initial setting of "CW" to "CCW" I needed to add .250" to the X and Y dimension parameters.
I made a note to myself that this is the right way to program it, because it now takes the finish pass around the periphery that it didn't do making the incomplete pocket.
Sometime this week I'll try out the hole milling and post milling, plus the hole drilling cycles. This is good progress for the time I've put into it.
Today I went back to see if I could do better. I made a change in the parameter of the cycle that simply offers "CCW" versus "CW". It didn't seem to make the cutter climb mill or not by changing, but did change the size of the pocket significantly. By changing from the initial setting of "CW" to "CCW" I needed to add .250" to the X and Y dimension parameters.
I made a note to myself that this is the right way to program it, because it now takes the finish pass around the periphery that it didn't do making the incomplete pocket.
Sometime this week I'll try out the hole milling and post milling, plus the hole drilling cycles. This is good progress for the time I've put into it.