08-28-2006, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by little bubba It wouldn't helicly interpolate, which was kind of a bummer |
What does that mean? I've read that somewhere else as well.
And, can someone explain offsets in 10 words or less?
Thanks!
EDIT...
OK, I just looked into Helical Interpolating was. If I understand it, it's drilling holes by revolving the head in small circles so that one tool could make a variety of hole sizes (and I guess they clean the metal chips out better). The only limitation I saw was that the head speed needed to be higher than normal.
Why can't the bandit do that? You can run it in a x-y quarter round while feeding a constant -z. It would take a dozen or so commands but it seems like it should do it. Am I missing something? |
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