ACE323
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2005
- Location
- New Hampshire
I decided to put together a spreadsheet for an employee that has no experience programming milling machines.It consists of a page of recommended speeds and feeds which will be entered into cells.
User enters:
SFM
IPT
ENDMILL DIA.
# OF FLUTES
Program returns the following 4 values into 4 different operation blocks(facemilling,slotmilling,contouring,and pocketing):
RPM
FEEDRATE(IPM)
AXIAL DOC
RADIAL DOC
RPM andFEEDRATE will be the same for all 4 ops.
I've done extensive searches on the web and the problem I'm having is that everywhere I look, someone has a totally different recommended DOC from the other guy.1.5 x EM dia., .25 x EM dia.,ETC
What I'm looking for is a tried-and-true set of values for AXIAL DOC and RADIAL DOC for the 4 basic milling ops:
Facemilling
Contour milling
Pocketing
Slotting
We always use carbide and use 4-flutes 99% of the time.Unfortunately, I never went to school for machining and haven't kept very good notes.
Thank You
Ace
User enters:
SFM
IPT
ENDMILL DIA.
# OF FLUTES
Program returns the following 4 values into 4 different operation blocks(facemilling,slotmilling,contouring,and pocketing):
RPM
FEEDRATE(IPM)
AXIAL DOC
RADIAL DOC
RPM andFEEDRATE will be the same for all 4 ops.
I've done extensive searches on the web and the problem I'm having is that everywhere I look, someone has a totally different recommended DOC from the other guy.1.5 x EM dia., .25 x EM dia.,ETC
What I'm looking for is a tried-and-true set of values for AXIAL DOC and RADIAL DOC for the 4 basic milling ops:
Facemilling
Contour milling
Pocketing
Slotting
We always use carbide and use 4-flutes 99% of the time.Unfortunately, I never went to school for machining and haven't kept very good notes.
Thank You
Ace