advanced 3d carving on 4th axis rotary

[reefy86]

here is both rough and finish settings

[magicniner]

Why are you roughing with a ball nosed cutter?

[reefy86]

no idea i am just following a tutorial that has similar details

[magicniner]

Unless your stock is very close to your part size the limited DOC and greater cost of ball end cutters means it makes no sense to use them as roughing tools, was the tutorial authored by an industry professional?

[reefy86]

This was the tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8aWk6oTiF0&t=707s

[magicniner]

This was the tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8aWk6oTiF0&t=707s

You could do the job quicker by roughing out to within 3mm of the finished surface with a more efficient cutter, then semi-finishing and finishing, provided roughing doesn't chip the material.

Did you notice that his spindle speed is 10000 rpm?

[reefy86]

for now i have no idea what spindle speed my machine will be able to do once finished but changing spindlespeed in deskproto doesnt affect the machining time, as for the cutter i have no idea what tool is best used accept the ballnose that only gets shown in tutorials.