Gene, Better to just use a standard (replaceable at a reasonable cost) ball mill and let your CAM software generate the toolpath. No math involved.
If I am making gears I'd not want to have to depend on a steady supply of hen's teeth. If your part depends on one-off tooling you might never be able to make another part or what if the tool breaks when you are halfway done? On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 4:27 AM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > my driving impetus to but a motor on this BS-1. But I'd need help > with the math using a ball nosed tool, or a flat faced with a corner and > very small steps radius. Otherwise I suspect one would have to buy a > tool grinder too, and make ones own tools. I have spent considerable > time looking for shaped tools/mills for such gear cutting and either > didn't recognize it from the description or came up empty. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
