Sequential Mill
Sequential Mill
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We are doing some 5 axis parts that require sequential mill. I have looked at CAST and I don't find anything on sequential mill. Does anyone have any info or reference that we can use to get info and figure out how to use sequential mill.
Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the help.





RE: Sequential Mill
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Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
RE: Sequential Mill
Like Tim said, get some classroom training. You paid a bunch for the software and your probubly making expensive parts. There's a bunch to know and by doing it "self taught" you'll really miss out. I've seen programmers blast it for not being powerfull - usually because they were self taught.
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Bill
RE: Sequential Mill
Larry
Larry Coyle
Cylinder Head Engineering, LLC
www.cylinderheadengineering.com
RE: Sequential Mill
I think the reasons they don't cover it in CAST is because of the many options. SeqMill looks deceptively simple to new users. It is far from it. There are times when the drive surface becomes the Part surface. Or, the Drive surface is really an edge with a vector. Creating temp planes gets really crazy to new users. The whole looping thing could be hard to explain in text as well. The classroom is really the best place to learn multiaxis programming because of all the exceptions to the "rules".
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Bill
RE: Sequential Mill
While you are right on in your analysis, I use cast to augment my classroom training because I am/was a new user when I started down this road. I agree, there is no way a new user could pick up on something as complicated as SeqMill from just cast though.
Larry Coyle
Cylinder Head Engineering, LLC
www.cylinderheadengineering.com
RE: Sequential Mill
The kicker with SeqMill is it's fussy. Example: you drive along a surface that appears to be tangent to the next check surface so you select a Stopping Postition of Ds-Cs Tangency. Low and behold you get errors for the Check surface. Ends up the surfs are just a hair off so you must either allow the tool to reposition at the check surf (which may gouge or leave stock) or model new surfaces which are truly tangent. Lots of little stuff like that. Seqmill is one that just takes time. It's not always black and white. It would be hard for CAST to cover it very well. Still my favorite tool though!
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Bill