Hi
I own and run a small precision engineering shop. We have 4 VMC's and 4 CNC lathes. The latest lathe has live tooling with full "C" axis. We have worked out how to produce a hexagon on the end face of turned parts using an axial tool. We can also do radial/axial bolt holes on PCD's no problem.We now want to produce just one flat on the outer edge, again with an axial set-up. We have calculated everthing just as with the hex but with only two points, ie the start and end of one flat only. We have tried with and without cutter comp (hex uses comp ok ) but with no success.Tool type is set to 0 in tool geometry page, than one took some understanding !
Machine is a CMZ 1450 TB with fanuc OC control.
This thing is just going all over the show, it's doing our heads in.
I own and run a small precision engineering shop. We have 4 VMC's and 4 CNC lathes. The latest lathe has live tooling with full "C" axis. We have worked out how to produce a hexagon on the end face of turned parts using an axial tool. We can also do radial/axial bolt holes on PCD's no problem.We now want to produce just one flat on the outer edge, again with an axial set-up. We have calculated everthing just as with the hex but with only two points, ie the start and end of one flat only. We have tried with and without cutter comp (hex uses comp ok ) but with no success.Tool type is set to 0 in tool geometry page, than one took some understanding !
Machine is a CMZ 1450 TB with fanuc OC control.
This thing is just going all over the show, it's doing our heads in.