Is there a way of implementing the rotary rounding toolpath gadget with 4 sided tapered stock to make cones?

[2C3D4U]

Hi, I'm tasked with creating 8" tall truncated cones with a large difference in large and small radii. The cone is 4" wide at the "top" and only 2" in diameter at the bottom. We were thinking of first cutting four sided tapered stock that would then have its corners rounded, leaving much less to do in way of completing the conical milling. In this case, the stock would be quickly prepared with jigs and a sliding saw.

Does/can Aspire be efficiently used in the described scenario to save oodles of time? If not, that's a gadget waiting in the wings.

[garylmast]

The rounding toolpath is just that, creates a round cylinder shape, no taper. If you do have a taper component, then the rotary would be the way to go, but by creating the your own roughing and finish toolpaths.

Gary

[Rcnewcomb]

Duplicate post
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=37637

[SteveNelson46]

Should you choose the ready made model method here is a truncated cone of your specs that I created in Rhino and imported into Aspire.
Over on the Camaster forum there is a thread/discussion on writing your own g-code rounding taper for the Camaster/WinCNC machines.

As Randall stated this is a duplicate post.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BHaw-4 ... sp=sharing