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peon didnt they have MC already?
what were they using before?
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I'm the one whom has to answer to the boss when he asks why the tool isn't "staying down" and "cutting air" +1
they always come in as tool 2 for me even if i have tools numbers in order checked
once i have one tool in the tool manager everything works fine then T1 T2 T3 etc
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1) When I select a tool from the tool manager as tool 1, sometimes it will change to 2 even though its listed as tool 1 and there are no other tools in my program.
i have the same problem in X4 and X3
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This has the possibility of being a quite "useful" tool but I don't think it is ultimately complete.
+1
it needs more documentation to help you set it up how you want
JM2C
tim
if you have air blast i would turn off the coolant and see what kind of tool life you get
i only run coolant on alum
i have noticed that with the coolant on in steels i was getting thermal fracture on the endmill
but if you are going to run coolant be sure the tool is not starved for it use TSC if you have it
glad to see you got the time down
colin
do you have a spreadsheet or any numbers that have worked for you that you could share with me?
still trying to get more out of my cutters would like to see where i am with them. i know i need to apply chip thinning more than i do (but i get a nice blue chip so i dont mess with it) just need to understand chip thinning a little better
sounds like you have done more of this than me
tim
see if you can get a varimill for the job with a good coating you could double where you are now i start at 500sfm .008chip load and work up or down from there
sounds like you dont have enough chip load according to the chip color
in a rigid holder?
i get i nice deep blue/purple chip on tool steels
you could decrease the step over to 5-8% and bump up the chip load to maybe .0025
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