On 10/19/23 09:48, andy pugh wrote:
On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 11:49, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
no place
to spec it as an RN tool.
What's an RN tool?
Radius Nose? I am fairly sure that the Axis Preview knows nothing
about that. (and as it only plits the tool tip centre, it is probably
only a cosmetic issue)
ball nose, radius nose, round nose, take your pick, all the same thing.
And yes, is cosmetic. But one of the things I'd like to see is a red
trail as it moves, that actually corresponds to the diameter of the
tool. That would make corrective code changes a lot more obvious.
For instance, I am currently carving a 2x2 by arbitrary length of hard
maple into a wood workers vise screw, with a buttress thread since the
vise screw is only a one sided load. Using the 1/16" round nosed tool to
do the carving. To get the 7 degree load face angle I have a wedge under
the spindle motor, a 1.5 hp, 24k motor. that 7 degree tilt is the side
of the tool which has a 6.35mm DOC and at the final pass I'm using 5mm
of that DOC. That, when the tool is dulled by use, can put enough
push/flex that it breaks off about a mm of the 5mm tall tooth, and looks
like hell. Sharpness of such small tools available also varies, a lot.
So for the last .1mm of the cut I've had to change the increment, to 1/4
what it is for the rest of the tooth and that is slowly cleaning up the
screw. I print the half nuts which I can make any size using openscad
once the screw is finished.
Being able to see in the backplot, what I get would be a huge help as
opposed to using a stick of maple cut from a plank of straight grained
wood that cost me $180. The red point/line, single pixel trace does not
show me the effects of a round nosed tool. Hopefully, the tool table
will eventually grow that ability to adequately describe the tool.
Backplot image should then follow at some point. Maybe by 3.1 if I'm
still around and haven't missed roll call?
Thanks Andy.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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