Part 6: Surface Milling
Part 6: Surface Milling
Part 6: Surface Milling
0 week 3 Part 6
Ensure that you have downloaded all CAM files from the write-protected drive (P:\Cours-
es\41617-CAM\) and placed them on your own drive (M:\)
Set the Working Directory to the directory on your own drive where you placed the CAM files.
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Note: This NC Sequence is setup using a 3-axis mill with a 25 mm diameter ball nose end mill tool. The other
important machining parameters that are preset include:
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Alter the tool path on the insert you machined in the last Section by changing the cut angle and
scallop height parameters
1. Change the cut angle to 90 degrees.
● Close the PLAY PATH dialog
● Select the Step Parameters icon (On the Mill pane, on the right end of the ribbon)
● In the Param Tree window, select the CUT_ANGLE parameter and type 90 instead of 0
● Choose OK to exit Parameter Setup window
2. Play the path..
● Choose Screen Play
● Choose the Play Forward action button
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● Change Step_Over to 12 mm
● Exit the Parameter Setup window
4. Play the path.
You can see how increasing the Scallop Height decreased the number of milling passes on the part. You notice
however there is still a "bunching up" of tool passes on the radius surfaces at the bottom of the insert.
5. Remove the rounded surfaces on the insert from the scallop height calculation.
● Choose Seq Setup
● Choose ScallopSrf
● Choose Done
● Select the 6 rounded surfaces on the insert to exclude from the scallop height
computation...remember, you must hold down the CTRL key to select several surfaces
● Choose OK
● Choose Done/Return
6. Play the path.
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Notice that the spacing is "spread out" a little more at the bottom of the insert. Removing these surfaces from the
scallop height calculation had this affect. The spacing is still closer however, on the side wall where the cuts have
been spread out on the vertical walls in the Z direction, but not in the X direction.
● Save your work: Choose File > Save as > Save a backup. Use Organize, and create
a new folder. This action puts all the files necessary for running a machining simulation in
this folder and enables you at a later time to view or continue your work .
● The folder must be handed in to the 41617 home page > Assignments > Cam Week
3, following instructions here.
End of demonstration
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3. Select the surfaces on the top of the housing. This includes the large surface, the round
which runs around the outside top of the part and the round at edge of the recess. The surfaces
are shown below.
● Choose Close
5. Change to scan type TYPE_3.
● Choose the Step Parameters icon ( ) to bring up the Param Tree window.
● Change the SCAN_TYPE to TYPE_3
● Choose OK to exit the Parameter setup window.
6. Play the path.
● Save your work: Choose File > Save as > Save a backup. Use Organize, and create
a new folder. This action puts all the files necessary for running a machining simulation in
this folder and enables you at a later time to view or continue your work .
● The folder must be handed in to the 41617 home page > Assignments > Cam Week
3, following instructions here.
End of Practise
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6. Select the surfaces you want to machine. - The system wants you to on the model to select which
surfaces to mill.
● Choose Done
● Save your work: Choose File > Save as > Save a backup. Use Organize, and create
a new folder. This action puts all the files necessary for running a machining simulation in
this folder and enables you at a later time to view or continue your work .
● The folder must be handed in to the 41617 home page > Assignments > Cam Week
3, following instructions here.
End of demonstration
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Finish machine the contoured faces on the mold insert shown below.
The Cut Line Milling interface has many entries, with the mandatory ones in yellow as usual:
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3. Fill - in the References
● Open the Reference tab, verify - Under Type - that Surface is selected and choose the
Details button in the lower right corner. - The Surface Sets dialogue opens
● Click in the Select Items area, and choose the faces on the model as shown:
● select the edges (one is enough) as shown highlighted in green as the Cutline 1.
Notice the arrow indicating the direction.
● Close the Chain dialogue with an OK.
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● Save your work: Choose File > Save as > Save a backup. Use Organize, and create
a new folder. This action puts all the files necessary for running a machining simulation in
this folder and enables you at a later time to view or continue your work .
● The folder must be handed in to the 41617 home page > Assignments > Cam Week
3, following instructions here.
ATTENTION
The final step of the above exercise must be REVIEWED and APPROVED by your
INSTRUCTOR to make you eligible for a signature on your approval sheet confirming your
successful completion of this tutorial.
Leave this file open and continue to the next exercises. Please complete both ATTENTION -
marked Day-3 exercises before requesting review and approval
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Value 25
25 mm Tangent
Approach added
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25 mm Tangent
Exit added
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● Save your work: Choose File > Save as > Save a backup. Use Organize, and create
a new folder. This action puts all the files necessary for running a machining simulation in
this folder and enables you at a later time to view or continue your work .
● The folder must be handed in to the 41617 home page > Assignments > Cam Week
3, following instructions here.
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Customize the tool path that profiles the left side of this aircraft bracket to add an acceptable
approach and exit motion.
3. Customize this cutter path to add a Tangent Approach and a Tangent Exit move.
● Choose Customize
● In the Customize dialog, highlight item 3: Follow Cut in the Current Tool Motion(s)
list as shown below
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As soon as the Tangent Approach option is selected, the system displays the Tangent Approach dialogue as
shown below. For the Tangent Approach, you can specify Feed Rate, Spindle Speed, Coolant On/Off, a Cutcom
command, an X, Y, Z Offset Distance and/or an Approach Distance.
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The system now displays the Tangent Exit dialog with the same options as in the Tangent Approach dialog.
● Select in the Exit Distance text field and type 50 and choose the OK action button
Again, the system immediately displays the Tangent Exit motion on the graphic screen and has inserted the
Tangent Exit statement in the Current Tool Motion(s) list.
Tangent Exit
inserted
The 50 mm
Exit Distance
Previously you have Customized a tool path by building an additional path with the new motions in it, thus ending
up having to delete one of them. This time you simply customized the original cutter path by inserting the new
requirements.
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POSTPROCESSOR COMMANDS
Add a block of text at the beginning of the file you have been working on. Also, you need to slow
down the feed rate of the tool along the thin walled rib which lies along the center of the bracket.
Add a feed rate command to affect the slow down.
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● Scroll down in the window until you can see the entire block of text you added
2. Now add the feed rate command to slow down the tool as it machines the thin rib.
You now need to add a Cut Motion to hold the new post command and its associated GOTO point....
● in the Customize dialog highlight item 5: Tangent Exit on the Current Tool Motion(s) list
-You probably noticed that in the CL Data window line 36 highlighted too.
● Click in the text field to the right of the Insert action button in the Customize dialog
● Choose CL Command from the list
The system displays the CL Command dialog as shown:
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● Place the Cursor in the Enter Command text field and click the LMB
Remember this...
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● Choose the OK action button in the Customize dialog
3. You can see the relative affect of the new feedrate on the tool path by playing it with a slower
speed from the Play Path CD player.
Notice how the tool changes speeds depending on the commands that you just added...
● Save your work: Choose File > Save as > Save a backup. Use Organize, and create
a new folder. This action puts all the files necessary for running a machining simulation in
this folder and enables you at a later time to view or continue your work .
● The folder must be handed in to the 41617 home page > Assignments > Cam Week
3, following instructions here.
ATTENTION
The final step of the above exercise (the tool speed slowdown) must be REVIEWED and
APPROVED by your INSTRUCTOR to make you eligible for a signature on your approval
sheet confirming your successful completion of this tutorial.
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