Have a job opportunity to mill a series of cosmetic windows into the side of 1.25" aluminum tubing and I'm trying to devise a way to deburr the edges without a 4th axis. There will a total of about 1000 windows so I would prefer not to do them by hand.
The windows are purely cosmetic and the tolerance is very broad. The customer says the main hole can be cut with an end mill through-cut. But to deburr the edge, I need to follow the edge of the finished profile with a chamfer or ball nose. That is where I'm having difficulty.
Machine is a Mycenter0 with a Yasnac MX3 control.
It does have helical interpolation but I have very little experience with it other than tapping.
Also, I've wondered if changing the plane selection, (G18 or G19), would help.
I've attached a representative image that shows the window in two different shapes. The tilted parallelogram is the shape I would prefer but thought I may have to go with the rectangle if my only option is to use G18 or G19.
It seems to me there has to be a way to do this since I'm not trying to hold tight tolerances. In fact, the chamfer doesn't even have to be uniform...it just has to knock off the sharp edges.
Any help would be appreciated!
gm.
The windows are purely cosmetic and the tolerance is very broad. The customer says the main hole can be cut with an end mill through-cut. But to deburr the edge, I need to follow the edge of the finished profile with a chamfer or ball nose. That is where I'm having difficulty.
Machine is a Mycenter0 with a Yasnac MX3 control.
It does have helical interpolation but I have very little experience with it other than tapping.
Also, I've wondered if changing the plane selection, (G18 or G19), would help.
I've attached a representative image that shows the window in two different shapes. The tilted parallelogram is the shape I would prefer but thought I may have to go with the rectangle if my only option is to use G18 or G19.
It seems to me there has to be a way to do this since I'm not trying to hold tight tolerances. In fact, the chamfer doesn't even have to be uniform...it just has to knock off the sharp edges.
Any help would be appreciated!
gm.