Question regarding 2 rail sweep and rotary

[rrrevels]

I have been having pretty good success with the rotary making Weed Pots (small vases) on the rotary. However: If I draw the profile and put the vertical lines at the ends to give the correct height the machine cuts through the material. The tutorial doesn't address this as it shows the ends to radius depth. Is there a consistent method of creating a tenon on the ends so I can transfer the piece to my manual lathe for final clean up? I have some success now but it is not very consistent.

Thanks,
Russ

[Paul A]

Russ,

I think this is what you are looking for.

Just add the stub tennons to your form profile and include them in the overall size when you use the Wrapped job setup, the sample below should help.

paul

[rrrevels]

Thanks for the reply Paul,

I have been trying that approach do I guess my question is how long to make the vertical tails. If they are too long the part gets cut off and that doesn't work on the cnc. Do I really need the vertical tails at all or can the stub tenons just be horizontal lines bounded by the bounding box? I know making the verticals to radius makes the part look great on the screen but is iffy on the rotary.

Thanks again,
Russ

[Paul A]

Russ, I take it your Zero is the centre line of the Zero axis, the length of the tail must be half the diameter of the tenon, then resize the bounding box to give you the correct lenght of tenon

I hope this helps

[rrrevels]

Thank You Paul,

I think that is the part I was missing. I kept thinking the tail should be shorter. I will give that a try later today. Now if I could just dream up some things like Ed (spinningwood) makes.

Thanks again.

Russ

[rrrevels]

Paul that solved the problem. Here are a couple of vases I made Sunday.

Russ