Dear Sirs,
The shop I work for mill a lot of holes and bores with a helical downward motion. These are deep and tight tolerance holes, so we like to do a roughing cut and a finish cut both in a helical motion.
We use NX6.
My current method is to make a planar_mill operation with engage method...
Hi,
We are having a custom postprocessor built for our 5-axis machine, and I need some input on how the postprocessor should activate the 5-axis functions on the machine control.
The machine has a Fanuc 30i control, and we want to use Tool Center Point control (G43.4) for simultaneous work and...
I am trying to make a contouring toolpath on a surface that contains some pockets. I am using "contour area" and I want this toolpath to completely ignore the pockets, as these will be machined in the next operation.
The problem is that the cutter avoids the areas over the pockets, and makes...
