I have recently been using rest machining to speed up some parts. One part I was working on, the first article came off at just over 5 hours run time. It had a lot of corers with 0.03" radius, so very small cutters were needed. Moving to larger cutters in the beginning for bulk material removal, then using progressively smaller cutters with "rest" to get the details done. I had to create some additional sketches to constrain the "rest" paths to certain areas of the part. Otherwise the path chosen by the Fusion tool would spend time cutting air. The part also had a bunch of drilled & tapped M2 holes. The LinuxCNC rigid tapping cycle worked wonderfully!
I was in fear that when Autodesk picked up HSMWorks, shat they would not keep the Solidworks plugin available, but am glad they did. The high school Robotics team I still work with is still using Solidworks. --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. [email protected] "Good enough is the enemy of excellence"author unknown On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 10:05 AM andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:43, Roland Jollivet <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > The problem with all the lower end CAM's is that they don't support Rest > > machining, > > Fusion CAM claims to, but I am frequently unconvinced by the results. > > -- > atp > "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is > designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and > lunatics." > — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
