dcoupar:
Thanks for what you posted. That was perfect. Very good explanation and will help.
Bad Dog
As far as Surfcam. It is Velocity 3 version. It does offer Mill/Turn function which I have not used yet. I will try to get it in an *.igs file to see if I can get a wire frame into Surfcam. Then I can play around to try and toolpath, then try to post and see what it looks like.
I had an example from Peter Smid's 3rd edition CNC Programming Handbook. It is a similar path to what I would like to do with the exception of the trapezoidal area. I was planning on just running a macro loop with stepover and contour this trapezoidal dimple area out with 1/4 ball em. I could drop the ball with minimal stepover and create the 1/4" fillet walls and approx. 30 degree angle. I can calculate all this out but needed to see how the G07.1 worked.
Also is there a way to arc move around the drilled whole? I was thinking about doing it similar to a mill using G18/G19 but don't know if I can do that? I am not even sure if I can use a Y-Axis on my machine. I believe so because i can set up blocks G54-G59 with a Y-Axis. That is why I am looking for advice and similar examples and maybe I can adapt. I figure things out pretting quickly.  |