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CNC fillets

CNC fillets

RE: CNC fillets

(OP)
how would they create that fillet?

RE: CNC fillets

you could run a cutter (NC) around the corner. mind you, you could bevel the edge. or if it isn't critical, just a drawing note "break sharp edges"

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RE: CNC fillets

Corner rounding end mill.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

RE: CNC fillets

Yes, corner rounding end mill.
Look up end mills with a corner round and see the sizes used so you are familiar with them.
A start: Link

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RE: CNC fillets


Yes, a corner rounding end mill. Try to choose a standard radius:

http://www.mcmaster.com/#end-mills/=tku6f9

You could also have the part tumbled. That will produce a radius around all the edges.

RE: CNC fillets

(OP)
Thanks to all that posted I will look this up... :)

RE: CNC fillets

Design for Manufacture Guidelines often discourage this kind of radii that is being created by the form/shape of the tool itself because each size radii requires a custom tool which may mean a tool change etc.

This is why chamfers are often used instead as the same tool can make multiple sizes of chamfer.

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RE: CNC fillets

this fillet willadd to the cost of the part, maybe not much.

is it critical to the part's performance ? or is it "artistic" or just someone playing with the solid modeller ??

if not consider bevel (probably similar cost), or just breaking the sharp edges.

Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

RE: CNC fillets

Corner rounding is often done in place of chamfering because a chamfer is still an edge, albeit obtuse. A radius lends to aesthetics and ergonomics and adds perceived value. The time spent machining is no greater than for a chamfer, and it would be unusual to mix multiple edge radii on the same part. It also reduces stress concentrations in more critical parts.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

RE: CNC fillets

(OP)
I would assume since this would be using a corner end mill that you would have to manually rotate the part along the edges to create the fillet around the part? or could this be programmed into a CNC machine tool path to do it?

RE: CNC fillets


cnc does this for you
when correctly programmed...

RE: CNC fillets

If you also have the fillet on the bottom side then the block will have to be flipped over.

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