christie628
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- Nov 12, 2018
I'm interested in moving a part from our 5 axis cnc's to a lathe with live tooling and polygonal turning capabilities.
Now cycle times on the 5 axis machines are approx. 1.5-3 min depending on the particular part. I would prefer to keep the same cycle times or close to. I've never programmed or ran a lathe so any advice is welcome.
The whole point is to move this part to full automation but with current work holding making it unreliable (on the 5 axis cncs) during part exchanges we could work hold better in the lathe's (given they can even cut something like this competitively)
Tolerance's are (+- 0.005) Average part Dia 15"
Thank you.
Now cycle times on the 5 axis machines are approx. 1.5-3 min depending on the particular part. I would prefer to keep the same cycle times or close to. I've never programmed or ran a lathe so any advice is welcome.
The whole point is to move this part to full automation but with current work holding making it unreliable (on the 5 axis cncs) during part exchanges we could work hold better in the lathe's (given they can even cut something like this competitively)
Tolerance's are (+- 0.005) Average part Dia 15"
Thank you.