skoobiz
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2007
- Location
- Hagerstown MD
Simple little question has anyone ever tried to take a shortcut by just using offsets when you don't have the tool a program calls for and it is a rush? Well one of my best guys did this on our HAAS VF 2 circa 1999. He needed a rounding tool to create a 1/4" radius. The program called for a rounding cutter with a 3/8" tip but all we had that was sharp was one with a 1/2" tip so he put in an offset to compensate for the difference in size. Much to his surprise when he ran the program he noticed that what was supposed to be a straight line cut was actually cutting a taper on the Y axis. It would start off cutting to much then slowly taper out to where it should be then it would cut fine until it got to the other end and again it would taper inward toward the part about .04". Is there a limit to how large of an offset you can add to a cutter in a HAAS? if so what is it? Has anyone else ever experienced this?