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Mill a slot, with a ball bottom, where its not deep enough to reach ballmills tangent.

Mill a slot, with a ball bottom, where its not deep enough to reach ballmills tangent.

Mill a slot, with a ball bottom, where its not deep enough to reach ballmills tangent.

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I've modeled a vacuum fixture, and it has a grid pattern of ball troughs. Trying to get a ballmill to run down the center of them all. The troughs are only .03 deep so not up to tangent of 3/16 ballmill, to mill it as a real slot.

RE: Mill a slot, with a ball bottom, where its not deep enough to reach ballmills tangent.

What version on NX are you using? What type of operation are you trying to use?

John Joyce
N.C. Programming Supervisor
Barnes Aerospace, Windsor CT
NX6, NX7.5,NX8.5, NX9.0
Vericut7.3

RE: Mill a slot, with a ball bottom, where its not deep enough to reach ballmills tangent.

It's easiest if you have a curve down the center of each slot. Then you can use planar milling for 2D, or surface contouring with point/curve drive method for 3D cutting.

Mark Rief
NX CAM Customer Success
Siemens PLM Software

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