Thread: Having a go with F360....
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29-08-2016 #11
Ok, back to this task, nearly ready to get cutting now :)
My thoughts are to fix the waste strips down to table,
set plate square to axes,
clamp plate on top,
mill the slot
drill the three holes tapping size through
drill the part holes to clearance size
tap the holes in the scrap and bolt part down
remove clamps
mill the two large holes
chamfer
mill the outer profile
flip over and bolt down
mill slots
clamp part again
remove bolts and counterbore three holes.
I think that maintains accuracy between the slot/holes and the two big holes??
I could maybe add two extra holes between the three bolts for 6mm dowels if needed?
The bottom plate will be easier as i only have to drill the three bolt holes and maybe dowel holes and then clamp down using the same offsets for the part.Last edited by Davek0974; 29-08-2016 at 10:59 AM.
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29-08-2016 #12
I think you're over-thinking it ;-)
Square your stock and drill & tap the clamp holes manually.
Stick it in a vice on parallels with thin sheet sacrificial spacers on top and machine all the internal features, including slot.
Hang it out of the vice to profile and slot one end outer curve, flip and repeat.You think that's too expensive? You're not a Model Engineer are you? :D
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29-08-2016 #13
It won't fit in my vise though :)
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29-08-2016 #14
Ok, work holding issues aside, say i have machined the inside features etc and want to create the outer contour...
F360 knows the exact size of the raw stock but I'm buggered if i can figure out how to create a path to machine the junk away??
Do you need to draw a box/path around the stock - if so whats the point of putting the stock size in?
You cant select the stock in a process so i cant see its point?
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31-08-2016 #15
F360 is doing my head in ;)
I have my front face set up with my chosen work coordinates system (WCS) as front left corner, Z is of course up/down.
Now, i presumed that if i wanted to machine a feature on the bottom or underside face of that part i could rotate it round, do a new setup and set my WCS as top left corner with Z again now being upwards???
I have spent an hour messing and given up for now - it will not let me position the WCS how i want it and persists in putting either the x or y axis in the wrong direction, i post processed a trial and it does not work as it is off the table in Mach3.
Any ideas how to machine stuff on the underside of a part???
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01-09-2016 #16
It seems it is correct and the error is my brain and Mach3's tool path display.
So far all my work has been done in Q1 which is pretty normal and has home at bottom left corner, the work on the reverse side is in Q4 with home at top left - this seems to make the tool path display hang it off the bottom of the screen which made me think it was wrong.
I sketched out the four quadrants and pencilled in the first few G-code lines and they do indeed fall where they should :)
I will have a play on the machine tonight and do a dummy run.
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03-09-2016 #17
To fix the display issue, you have to turn off "Table Display" in Mach3 :)
Next -
I have code for a part that needs to be run as batches - same code with a break to reload the stock.
How do you stop the pointless tool-change but still maintain the tool length offset??
Code starts like this...
(1)
(T1 D=12. CR=6. - ZMIN=-10. - BALL END MILL)
N10 G90 G94 G91.1 G40 G49 G17
N15 G21
N20 G28 G91 Z0.
N25 G90
(2D CONTOUR2)
N30 M5
N35 M9
N40 T1 M6
N45 S650 M3
N50 G55
N55 M7
N65 G0 X-2.546 Y13.069
N70 G43 Z10. H1
N75 Z2.
N80 G1 Z1. F180.
N85 Z-8.8 F135.
N90 X-2.54 Y13.063 Z-8.934
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