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Old 08-11-2011, 11:41 PM
 
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tricordial milling

hi I need to mill a slot with a long cutter that is prone to vibration. I need to use this tool due to the depth of the slot. Its a very basic slot that 158mm long 32mm wide.
Can anyone help me with the code for this?
I have access to both mastercam X2 and Bobcad24 I have tried using these for the slot but they both just ramp down to the cutting depth then machine the slot by sidemill, I know this will cause vibration.
Basically it would be a series of interlocking circles with a radius of half the slot width to the correct length.
thanks.
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Old 08-15-2011, 03:50 PM
 
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How deep is the slot?
What kind of material?

I'd drill it out with a 3/4 first, pop some holes in the slot first to get the majority of it out then go in with a 3/4" em and rough it out...

Shouldn't NEED to use Tri-milling for something like that. Tri milling works best for larger pockets. expecially with a MINICUT endmill...
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Old 08-17-2011, 07:02 PM
 
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I'm not familiar with tricordial milling as I don't have a cam program with that feature.
Is this the sort of path you require?
The path shown is for a 10mm cutter.
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Old 08-18-2011, 03:39 AM
 
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Yeah thats the sort of path I was looking for. I thought there would be some way of coding it without cam software being just a straight slot. I got close the other day but while i got the spiral to move in the X axis the radius increased as well.
I actually generated a tool path in Bobcad 23 but at over 4000 lines for 1 simple slot I thought Ill try something else.
As OptionCNC stated plunge milling or drilling a series of holes might be a good alternative.
Is that bobcad version21 in your pic?
Did you draw the tool path by hand?
I tried to make a contour but couldn't get that to work.
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Old 08-18-2011, 04:09 AM
 
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Originally Posted by winaa View Post
...Did you draw the tool path by hand?.....
No, I've written a VBasic program to generate the code which I pasted into BCC ver21.

If you can supply the start and end centres co-ords of the slot with the tool diameter and tool step-over I can supply you some code.
Another way would be to do a loop, step along in G91 (increment) and repeat.
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