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jogging at a 25 degree angle?

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Plastic
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May 9, 2016
hi guys. probably a dumb question, but is there a way to use the manual jog dial to jog at a particular angle?

ie. if i want to cut an end mill into a work piece at a 25 degree angle manually i'd like to put it in the vice (which i know is square) and then just manually drive an end mill into it, how can i do this?

if i use a protractor or some other manually way of measuring the angle, that would work, but it won't be super precise.

obviously i could figure out how to code this up, but i just thought i'd ask in the off chance that there is a way to set angle of travel manually so that i can enjoy the high precision of the mill.

is this possible, or is this just really dumb?
 
I know that the tl series lathes could make angles moves by typing the angle and turning the dial.
Makes a one off prototype machine more user friendly.

I do not know of a way to do this on the tm mills though, I would love to know!
I've wanted to do it before but ended up doing the math and did it in mdi.
 








 
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