If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Define Tool – Alphacam In Alphacam, as in most CAM systems, we can define our own tools. We have the ability to define several types of tools here. To define new tool select Machine | Define Tool. In this part of the course we…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons G41 / G42 Compensation We said a few words about tool radius compensation. What is it and how it works. But there is one quite important issue. What is the difference between G41 compensation and G42 compensation? Compensation G41 is a left-sided compensation. This…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Compensation and How the toolpath is generated in CAM systems? Now, it’s worth taking a moment to understand how the tool path is generated by the CAM system. And this is not about the CAM system algorithms, but more about what is the basis…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Tool Data Tab – Alphacam YouTube: https://youtu.be/VyvXtCbj0U4 Being in the initial stage of learning Alphacam, it is also discuss the Tool Data tab, on the example of contour machining operation. This tab appears in every strategy, so you should know what we can do…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Lead In/Out – Arc – Alphacam YouTube: https://youtu.be/081iSp5tZfk As we have known the tool entry and exit on the line, the way of arc entry and exit the will not be a problem. The Arc Radius (Tool Rad x) is the tool radius multiplier…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Lead In/Out – Sloping Line – Alphacam YouTube: https://youtu.be/Aw6fQy18QRk The angle of sloping entry line can be setting in two ways. One of them is the connection of the length of the slopping line and the level of Rapid Down To. The length of…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Lead In/Out – Line – Alphacam YouTube: https://youtu.be/TRjahOTbe5E Before we run the simulation, based on the appearance of the tool paths, we could see that the tool’s entry into the material is not very good. We see that the tool goes down vertically. As…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons Fusion 360 2D Adaptive Clearing – Adaptive machining 2D Adaptive Clearing, this strategy can be found under the name adaptive machining or adaptive milling. What do we mean by that? In short and in simplification, it is a machining strategy that prepares the tool…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons 2D Chamfer Fusion 360 – Another way In the previous post, we discussed chamfering using the 2D Chamfer operation. Another way to do chamfers is to use 2D Contour operation. From the 2D menu, select the 2D Contour operation. Select the chamfering tool. Go…
If you find my tutorials helpful, you can support CADCAMLessons: https://ko-fi.com/cadcamlessons 2D Chamfer Fusion 360 Chamfering is a simple milling operation, but significantly affecting the appearance and functionality of the finished part. By bending sharp edges during milling, we shorten the time of manual finishing. In order to make the chamfer we do not need…
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