Originally posted by mace
A simple volume milling seq. time took to generate about 3 mins.
rgh and finish in this op 6061 al.
Ill try to explain in under one page
In Pro e volume milling is creating a solid mass around features on reference part that you want to machine puting excess material before the reference part using any shapes to create the mass then trimming volume to reference part leave more or less excess to decide on how many passes are need to rough to the part and after roughing is done there are parameters to finish all in one sequence. |
Good to see someone who's passionate about his software. I've seen your posts and suggest you might try to explain things a little better. You are kind of hard to follow. Anyways I think you are trying to say in your other posts that ProE machines faster because it will create stock shapes other than squares and cylinders and will calculate from those shapes. Just my 2 cents, but in Gibbs you can designate any shape as stock or as a fixture too, and I assume other systems have similar capabilities too. And looking at your example here, any system will machine those same toolpaths. Feeds & speeds are largely what will determine machine times here.
I've seen ProE in action and I like the cad side, Which I'm considering to switch over from SolidWorks, but I wasn't impressed with the cam side.
cm
