Hi Bari, Though I'm no expert, your goal is admirable. I would say typically I do tend to use the larger tools first when feasible (i.e. excluding situations where I might have to drill first). I try to use an adaptive tool path whenever possible too. I then move to one of many finishing strategies (contour, horizontal, pencil, etc.)
I think traditional roughing was probably rather raster oriented. Probably just work in a constant stepover and depth of cut and go round the part in a roughly square path. However, I don't know because I have very limited experience with CAM packages prior to Fusion360 about 6 years ago when adaptive was pretty much standard. I dabbled with MasterCAM in about 2005, but I can't recall if there was an adaptive tool path back then. I don't believe there was, but I never dug that deep. Matt On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 5:10 PM Bari <bari00...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm am working on creating open software for creating tool paths for 4+ > axis machines. > > > What are your approaches to machining when using 4+ axis machines? > > > Hog out as much as possible first using the largest roughing tools first > then moving to smaller? > > > Any fine points to consider? > > > One vendor of 5-axis CAM markets adaptive technology to speed up the > process. Not exactly sure what they used to do when creating paths with > their older software vs newer. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Matthew Herd Email: herd.m...@gmail.com Cell: 610-608-8930 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
