Once in a while you'll run into a situation where you're tempted to use marginal, or even inappropriate, tooling just so you can reach a particular feature and get it all in one operation. Cycle times and/or part quality can take a hit in some of these cases. You have to apply some common sense. "One Hit" doesn't work optimally for everything
Similar to managers that dictate that an HMC be tooled up with an absolute minimum number of tools, to save a few bucks on toolholders. You might indeed be able to make all your parts that way, but only after extending all the tools out so far that none of them cut very well. You have to take lighter cuts, the tools don't last, and the finish suffers. What's cheaper in the long run?
Good luck to you. |