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Spherical Radius
- Thread starter k_murray
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Booze Daily
Titanium
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- Sep 18, 2015
- Location
- Ohio
You need to add your tool radius to the finish Z and radius you are cutting.
Basically you have to program to the tangent points of the tool radius.
X-.03
G2 X.211 Z-.1205 R.1205
Basically you have to program to the tangent points of the tool radius.
X-.03
G2 X.211 Z-.1205 R.1205
I'm not going to point out the G2 for the OD---oops.
But isn't what you posted exactly what he posted?
My guess is he's using a .0312"r insert. If not, he can try feeding into Z by .0098 then finish at Z-.1293. That will be the Tangency of the insert radius.
R
ThunderPants
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2017
He is turning from Z0 to Z.1205 (positive) so G2 is correct.
Nope, sorry. G2 is a clockwise arc.
R
EDIT> I can see clearly now the rain is gone. Unless he's using a sub, or the programming is all wonky, it's redundant anyway. Besides first time poster, probably won't respond anyway.
ThunderPants
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2017
Depends on the machine type, right? My Citizen M and L machines are always Z+ for forward turning (main or sub, using tooling on the turret, gang slide, or back post) and G2 would swing the correct direction for turning a spherical OD feature. I was assuming he knew his machine. But, maybe he doesn't and that's his problem. I suppose no one is right or wrong without more information.
NAST555
Stainless
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- May 23, 2008
- Location
- Gauteng, South Africa
Tell me about it... The Mori SL2 that I am trying to get used to use Negative X values. So 50mm is X-50.0
