Hi there,
I'm having an issue with noticeable surface finish height between different ops.
I'm working with a part made of cast acrylic. It's a 3D shaped part but the problem I have is with a flat surface (highlighted in the second image).
Due to the shape of the part I have to "face mill" this surface with various passes and some of those passes overlaps (have a look at first image). There is a noticeable surface height between those passes even though in code it's always at the same Z height.
All of the cuts are done with the same cutter (3mm single flute with polished edge from Datron) with the same feedrate and at the same Z height. All of them are climb cuts.
I'm loosing my mind here! I'm sure that it's not in the machine because there is no height difference between passes within one op even when there are retracts in-between.
Please have a look at the second picture to see what I mean. I quickly spray painted it black to make it more visible.
Feeds and speeds for all operations on this surface:
24000 RPM
1500 mm/min
Does anyone have any idea?
I can post the code if needed, but it's rather long..
Cheers,
Bartosz
I'm having an issue with noticeable surface finish height between different ops.
I'm working with a part made of cast acrylic. It's a 3D shaped part but the problem I have is with a flat surface (highlighted in the second image).
Due to the shape of the part I have to "face mill" this surface with various passes and some of those passes overlaps (have a look at first image). There is a noticeable surface height between those passes even though in code it's always at the same Z height.
All of the cuts are done with the same cutter (3mm single flute with polished edge from Datron) with the same feedrate and at the same Z height. All of them are climb cuts.
I'm loosing my mind here! I'm sure that it's not in the machine because there is no height difference between passes within one op even when there are retracts in-between.
Please have a look at the second picture to see what I mean. I quickly spray painted it black to make it more visible.
Feeds and speeds for all operations on this surface:
24000 RPM
1500 mm/min
Does anyone have any idea?
I can post the code if needed, but it's rather long..
Cheers,
Bartosz