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Cast Iron
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2013
- Location
- Danville Virginia
Disclaimer: I am an automotive machinist, not a real machinist so cut me some slack! I have a 4 axis VM20 Milltronics that I do block work on. I have to machine a diameter on the rear of a block to accept a crank seal adapter. It's too tall to stand on it's nose and mill in XY so I am using a 90 degree head in the spindle, with block mainline indicated on the X axis. Machining will be done with the tool coming in from the right. I have no programming software, I do programs manually in G code. I utilize the canned programs that came in the machine, interpolation, rigid tapping, peck drilling etc. I made a program to get the tool to interpolate a full circle in YZ using G19/G03 but I really need to use a 1/2" end mill and machine it as though I'm clearing a pocket, including depth moves in X-. In my mind I'm thinking that I just need to change my G17 program to G19 and enter my own step over values, depth of cut increments, etc. Can this be done manually? Thanks.