Running the first one today.
I changed my program down to just 3 tools for the Santa. Also using a 4flute ball for the last operation. Also I don’t have the extension for fusion to alter the spiral path so I had to try and find a 1/8 inch end mill but no one sells them here in the UK.(except Amazon,) so we will see how it looks.
The final spiral pass is 21mb.! 6 hours.
I also decided to use the tail stock on the first one. Will figure out how to finish the top of his head if the end mill makes it to the end and has a good finish.
A lines that for some reason the feed runs at (1.2 to .2inch per minute.) Each one takes from .5 to 3 seconds to run and there are thousands of them.
There is no z move with them as you can see and all the other lines run at the programmed feed rate. Here’s the first lines of the program. (I copied the text from a photo so disregard the weird lines and 0 that are O.
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(Santa5)
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(Machine)
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vendor XoomSpeed Post 1100Mx)
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model 1100MX)
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( description Tormach 1100MX)
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(T49 D=0.125 CR=0.0625 - ball end mill)
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G90 G54 G64 G50 G17 G40 G80 G94 G91.1 G49
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G20 (Inch)
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G30
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N10 (Rotary Parallel2 (8))
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T49 G43 H49 M6
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S10000 M3 M8
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G17 G90 G94
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G54
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GO A-84.806
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GO X-0.0121 Y0.472
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GO Z1.8404
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GO
Y0.025 Z0.0974
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GO Z-0.1284
I’m just wondering why the feed slows down. Also I was thinking of just doing a text search and remove all of them.
There are 16,000 of these sandwiched between lines that have moves of less than 2-degrees and Z move less than .002in. If I removed all of them I could save almost 2 hours.
Any ideas?
@Dr_Harold_Jones I suspect that if you remove all of those lines then you are going to break a tool or at best have a sketchy looking part. Those moves have a Z and A component so deleting them will result in some other cut happening at that time. FWIW, when I surfaced this Santa it took around 10hrs but looks great. I didn’t tweak the F&Ss for a turbo fast cut so I might be leaving something on the table.
I was trying to remove the last bit around the tail stock and I accidentally drilled right into the centering pin. Anyone know if they sell just the center pin?
Can’t wait for part 2!
In the past when setting in the wrong WCS I’ve been known to tell PP there’s a tool in the spindle without one actually installed (“air tool”), moved to zero, changed WCS and zeroed that one. There’s probably a way to manually copy them over too.
I ended up just running it at 70% and walking away overnight. There were to many thousands of the slow parts and I didn’t have the rotary tool path add on for fusion so I couldn’t reprocess the path.
That’s the kind of thing that might make for a good quick tips-and-tricks video.
