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slideleft
Hi All,
Well our shop just got MCX5, mostly to take advantage of Dynamic milling functions. For trochoidal paths we'd been using the Volumill add-on that came with Bobcad 22. Like MCX, the high speed paths do trochoidal paths, but would sometimes bury the tool full width, primarily when the path comes out the other side of a constriction. Given that we are feeding full depth, really fast, in 6-4 ti at 110% or less cutter width, this equals very expensive endmill dying immediately. Ugh. This seems to happen if there are 2 or more posts on part and the algorithm gets confused what has and hasn't already been cut. Ayone else have this problem or a solution? I am attaching file if you want to check it out (op1). You have to look very closely to see when it does the full width bury, but it is there.
Thanks as always,
Jeff