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Pick contour at floor level.
Or
Adjust for cutter compensation at machine.
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I'm using Mastercam X and plotting toolpaths for a profiler bit, cutting wax. The bit has a .003 inch point, and a 10 degree angle. When cutting a pocket the outside edge of the pocket is overcut because of the angle on the bit. I presume the tip of the tool is following the geometry. but as the profiler increases in diameter the geometry is overcut. How do you compensate for the bit angle?
Pick contour at floor level.
Or
Adjust for cutter compensation at machine.
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Perhaps you can expand a little on "Pick contour at floor level", I'm not sure what you mean.
Pictures sometime help.
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which Postprocesor you have?
<which Postprocesor you have>
Just the default Mastercam X version for mill
I'm cutting simple circles from 2D geometry. The 15 degree taper mill is not compensating while the regular ball mill is. Taper mill is on the left side in the pics, and ball mill on the right. Haven't been able to find method to input compensation data for taper mill.Originally Posted by txcncman
questions - how are you defining the tool? and are you compensating to wear, control, computer or off?
Mastercam will look at the smaller tool diameter for verify perhaps a screen shot of your tool parameters.
If you can ENVISION it I can make it
The tapermill is compensating, look at the sizes at the bottom of the cut & compare to the top faces done by the ballnose cutter
Endmill, Bullmill & Ballnose all work off the OD of the tool, where the "Base diameter" of a tapermill is the compensating diameter
You can input a taper value within the contour parameters under "Depth cuts",
or
create/select geometry at the bottom of your pass for the "Base Diameter" of the tapermill to follow.
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