Hi,
We are going to manufacture more of the parts that we design ourselves in the near future in order to improve delivery time.
We have ordered a Haas ST-30Y which should be sufficent for 75% of the parts that we design.
Being that we use Inventor every day, we presumed that the HSM "ultimate" (with mill/turn) would be ideal for our machine and we therefore bought this.
I am new to CAM but have some basic G-code knowledge. To me it seems that it generates an awful lot of code for stuff that is kind of simple.
Is it common to clean up code manually after I have generated the NC code through the ST-30Y post?
Furthermore - if I am required to turn the part in the chuck halfway through in the sequence - should this be done as a separate program or does HSM in Inventor have a useful stop & reverse part feature?
I find that there is very little documentation and even books on the subject. Slightly worried that I have spent 100k+ on a machine that we will not be able to use efficiently. I am also a little bit surprised that the speeds & feed rates are not generated automatically based on tools & material in CAD model.
Many thanks & kind regards
JH
We are going to manufacture more of the parts that we design ourselves in the near future in order to improve delivery time.
We have ordered a Haas ST-30Y which should be sufficent for 75% of the parts that we design.
Being that we use Inventor every day, we presumed that the HSM "ultimate" (with mill/turn) would be ideal for our machine and we therefore bought this.
I am new to CAM but have some basic G-code knowledge. To me it seems that it generates an awful lot of code for stuff that is kind of simple.
Is it common to clean up code manually after I have generated the NC code through the ST-30Y post?
Furthermore - if I am required to turn the part in the chuck halfway through in the sequence - should this be done as a separate program or does HSM in Inventor have a useful stop & reverse part feature?
I find that there is very little documentation and even books on the subject. Slightly worried that I have spent 100k+ on a machine that we will not be able to use efficiently. I am also a little bit surprised that the speeds & feed rates are not generated automatically based on tools & material in CAD model.
Many thanks & kind regards
JH