Say you are doing a internal profile cut on a circle and select "add ramps to tool path" then Spiral is there anyway you can change the speed of the ramp down.
What I found is I had quite a few 5 mm and 16 mm holes to cut rather than using a peck drill sequence I prefer to end mill them out, the Spiral ramp is ideal on the 5 mm ones but takes a long time on the 16 mm ones so was looking if it is possible to increase the speed of Spiral for larger diameters a little.
Phill
Ramping
Re: Ramping
Have you tried using a Circular Lead instead? You can then play with the Radius and lead length.
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Re: Ramping
A ramp is always going to be a mixture of Z and XY moves so it will be constrained by the movement of the slowest axis. If you increase the plunge rate that should speed up the ramp.
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Re: Ramping
Thanks Adrian spot on,Adrian wrote:A ramp is always going to be a mixture of Z and XY moves so it will be constrained by the movement of the slowest axis. If you increase the plunge rate that should speed up the ramp.
I have the Z axis with a very slow down feed for cutting stone, I did not think of that it works a treat, Spiral works better for me than Radius & lead length no chance of harsh dig in's.
Phill
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