Originally Posted by
inkedupbigboy
I had told my tool salesman I was wanting to go with Helical Solutions end mills because the milling adviser software I'm using is based on their end mills and I was having trouble with end mills sounding bad or chipping when doing helical interpolations entering my parts. Also Volumill told me that the parameters in the milling adviser coincide with their software. When i told him this he told me my machine isn't rigid enough to run these feeds and speeds associated with HSM toolpaths constantly and that I would have problems, however when i suggested just backing off on the feeds and speeds while still utilizing the optimized toolpath generated with Volumill his only response was this would cause premature tool wear. I don't think he had a good understanding of rpm to ipm ratios and chipload.