Dirk wrote: > Did you try any generated code? > At work we are looking into buying a 5 axis mill. I never thought it > would be easy to operate such a machine, but it seems to get harder > every day I learn more about it. And we don't even have it yet. > I am also curious if Stuart's machine is using handwritten code or > that he is using some kind of cam software. Stuart Stevenson has a big shop in Wichita, KS that does aerospace parts for Boeing and everybody else. (He has a smaller shop in Eminence, MO, too. see http://www.mpm1.com/ for more info. So, you should get the picture that he can afford $25K or worse software tools if he needs them. > But to me, the step from 3 to 5 axis is not just > 2 axis extra. Yup, for 2D and even much 3D, whatever face of the tool is cutting matters, and the rest of the tool can be largely ignored. With 5-axis, you have to worry about the entire shape of the tool, maybe the holder too. You have to treat the workpiece as a volume, and your tool is going to nibble off bits of that volume without ever gouging someplace it isn't supposed to.
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