Quote Originally Posted by devmonkey View Post
Right i'll order a couple, sounds excellent. Are you saying you can cut cast plate full depth (20mm) at 1000mm/min using trochoidal/adaptive? I haven't tried anything like that aggressive, I usually cut at 6mm DOC with a 6mm cutter, ~1600mm/min and 1mm stepover into plate with trochoidal.
No Using i-machining which is Solid-Cam's version of trochoidal I can cut much more aggressively than 1000mm/min at 20mm DOC. i-machining adjusts the feed based on geometry while it's cutting and usually, it's anywhere between 2000-4000mm/min and 14-18000rpm. And that's on the medium setting 4, if I bump up the level to 7 it really rips chips, but it knocks the hell out the machine and spindle so I keep it between 3-4. This usually spits out feeds between 2-3000mm/min, 12000rpm and varies the step over between 0.1 and 0.9mm. See Pic

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