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Have you calibrated your machine? This is a task usually completed from within your motion control software.

I find that using a cutter with the appropriate side angle yields great results, i.e. 90° included angle cutter will give nice clean 45° chamfered edge. Oops, sorry I just noticed you were looking at a variable depth.

Draw a smaller rectangle in each corner, then mill inside that with the smaller bit. Gary If you are machining an inside corner of a pocket, you will never get a sharp or 'square corner. The reason for this being the cutter used for machining, this is what creates the corner radius. The tool diamet...

Although some improvement is evident the 1/8" path it unfortunately increases the run time nearly 28%. This is where REST Machining comes in, it allows for refining the carving of detailed areas with a smaller tool with out having to machine areas that won't benefit from the smaller tool. By machin...

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Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:03 pm

how about adding a little bit of draft to the model say around 3 or 4 percent?

My concern isn't so much the sidewall but the radius formed by the ball cutter as it meets 3D shape at varying 'Z' depths

The attached picture illustrates a 1/4" ball cutter path with a 4% step over. Also, try previewing with a 1/8" ballnose at 8% stepover Thank you Adrian, John, Randall and Pete for your comments and suggestions. I have attached 2 pictures with my screen setting moved to the highest resolution. The f...

Not that I am aware of - but you could create a profile vector for an end mill Or you could create a seperate smaller set of vectors around the contour and use a smaller tapered ball end mil to sharpen the contour Pete, I'm thinking this would yield the same results that I currently have and would ...

Thanks John, but if memory serves me correctly the rest machining process allows contour machining with a smaller cutter into areas where a larger one simply can't get to. I simply want to smooth things up a bit.

Is there a way to run a profile path to follow a 3d contour? If not perhaps this may be an opportunity for a software enhancement. Basically the results I would like to accomplish would be the elimination (or reduction) of the small tool cusp formed during a finishing operation. The attached picture...

What about using a rotary blade? These work similar to a drag knife.

Same here, in fact I reloaded the page twice....

Thank you Adrian, I was missing the the last step for some reason. Frustration I guess, but all is good now. Paul

I just reset my password and would like to change it to something of my choice, something I can remember and not the computer generated one sent to my email. How do i get to my profile page?

Thanks, Paul

Definitely a laser. Multiples can be lazed at the same time yielding a product requiring little or no secondary operations.

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I have just rebuilt my old computer with a new motherboard and solid state drive. I have retained my 'old' mechanical drive which holds all of my original data and programs my problem is that I do not know where my Vectric 9.5 application file is located. Please help I need my program back