Newbie- Can BobCad do this? (fly, boring, ramp)

[Ed from NY]

I did not find a way to do these... I suppose you can always do it by hand, but I figure it is worth asking and perhaps I overlooked something

1) Fly cutting

2) Boring with single point cutting tool

3) Ramp milling, as in going down on an incline or spiral instead of plunging

And... another question...

What s that boring tool that BobCad has? It looks like an end mill with some shaft on the end? How do you use it? Where do you get it?

Thanks!

[1234567]

You can do all of these things just look in your cam tree under drill and mill 2 axis

[Ed from NY]

Hi,

I just looked at it again and could not find them. What are they called?

The only one I see is "boring" but they use an end mill like cutter (at least that is the picture).

The fly cutting and boring I'm referring to above are single point cutting tool operations.

Did not find Ramp Milling either... that is like pocketing, but instead of plunging you move in all 3 axis at the same time and you kinda make a ramp as you go along... in the last pass you level it all.

Thanks!

[southernexplore]

Are you talking about thread milling? It is located in Mill, 2D, Thread.

Tommy

[BurrMan]

Originally Posted by Ed from NY Hi, Did not find Ramp Milling either... that is like pocketing, but instead of plunging you move in all 3 axis at the same time and you kinda make a ramp as you go along... in the last pass you level it all. Thanks!

THe new HSP can perform this. Do you have Pro?

[BurrMan]

Here's a file that a guy in the BobCad forum had posted with questions about. If you have HSP you can open this file and verify it to see if it's what your talking about. Also can view the feature setup for review.

[Ed from NY]

I have pro, but for some reason that feature is grayed out. I have to call BobCad

On the fly cutter... It just occurred to me that I can define a large end mill (3 to 5 inches in diameter) and that should work... same idea for boring

[Ed from NY]

Originally Posted by BurrMan Here's a file that a guy in the BobCad forum had posted with questions about. If you have HSP you can open this file and verify it to see if it's what your talking about. Also can view the feature setup for review.

Well turns out that the HSP is an extra option licensed from Volumill and is not included in the pro package.

So if it does do it... I'll not be able to use it