Todd; If you use Copy milling for your operation in the job planer, you can put a negative finish allowance in the Finish Allowance field then that number is available for use in the job report, step report, or tool report, and it gets saved with the .jof file. Also, if you put "jos(cutfin)" (no quotes) in the surface machining field for "finish allow:" and save the dialog box settings, you will not have to enter the fin allowance every time you create cutter path. The same is true for the "stepover", "in tol" and "out tol" fields. This information can be found in technote 123. The technotes used to be on the web site, but I don't know where they are now, maybe on the CD. I have a set on our server so all of our programmers can access them.
Cheers, Chuck Glawe > -----Original Message----- > From: Todd Crosby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 3:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [mfg-smartcam] FINISH ALLOWANCE ? > > > Hi all , > When creating cutterpath for electrodes from models (mesh or surface > machining) I typically use a negative finish allowance to > create desired > overburn. Does anyone know of a way to get this finish allowance value > into the posted program? Is it even saved anywhere ? By the time the > trodes are ready to burn I never remember what was used. > > Todd Crosby > > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== > ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
