BluishInventor
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2020
Hey everyone,
I have a unique part I'm working on and would like to not have to do a 2nd op in our 5x mill. Essentially, I need to do a swarf mill on a feature that is wrapped around the part. The walls are perpindicular to the turning axis(Z), but there are sections where the wall is inline with that axis and runs in that direction as well. So, if I mill around the wall, the tool will need to move off center in the Y axis, but also drive the C axis at the same time. Thus, all 4 axis will need to move to create this path.
Is this even possible? I know my CAM system can output the path in the right spot with the tool in the proper orientation, but right now our post doesn't support this. I tried hacking together some code from a post that would work but get an Invalid Statement error anytime there are all 4 axes on a single line. What this tells me is that it is NOT possible. But I've heard from others that they've done such things, yada yada yada, but here I am stuck with nothing working.
Any ideas or knowledge for this type of thing?
Thanks!
edit: added some photos of a generic shape with the same type of contour.
I have a unique part I'm working on and would like to not have to do a 2nd op in our 5x mill. Essentially, I need to do a swarf mill on a feature that is wrapped around the part. The walls are perpindicular to the turning axis(Z), but there are sections where the wall is inline with that axis and runs in that direction as well. So, if I mill around the wall, the tool will need to move off center in the Y axis, but also drive the C axis at the same time. Thus, all 4 axis will need to move to create this path.
Is this even possible? I know my CAM system can output the path in the right spot with the tool in the proper orientation, but right now our post doesn't support this. I tried hacking together some code from a post that would work but get an Invalid Statement error anytime there are all 4 axes on a single line. What this tells me is that it is NOT possible. But I've heard from others that they've done such things, yada yada yada, but here I am stuck with nothing working.
Any ideas or knowledge for this type of thing?
Thanks!
edit: added some photos of a generic shape with the same type of contour.